Jongyoon Baik

jongyoonbaik@cuhk.edu.cn

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. I received both my Ph.D. in Political Science and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago.

I study government-citizen relations under authoritarianism. My book examines the administrative litigation system in China, where I measure the political salience of different disputes. Other research topics include the effect of petitions on lawsuits, preference falsification, immigration from autocracies to democracies, and public opinion toward China in Asia. Most of my work adopts quantitative research methods, incorporating non-traditional data such as text and audio.

My research has received support from APSA (NSF) DDRIG, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Association for Asian Studies, and Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, among others.

I received an M.A. in Political Science and International Relations and a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Seoul National University.