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Jieun Kim

Assistant Professor of Political Science

NYU Shanghai

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU Shanghai. My research is in comparative politics, particularly on 1) authoritarian institutions and 2) language standardization, with a regional focus on China. My works have been published in Comparative Political Studies and Journal of Chinese Political Science, among others.

I received my PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 2021. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania.

Please find my CV here. You can reach me at kimjieun@nyu.edu.

Interests

  • China, authoritarianism
  • Accountability, transparency, legality
  • Politics of language
  • Formal modeling; computational text analysis

Education

  • PhD in Political Science, 2021

    University of California, Berkeley

  • MA in Political Science, 2016

    University of California, Berkeley

  • BA in Political Science, 2013

    Seoul National University

Publications and Working Papers

4. Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court
with Rachel Stern and Benjamin Liebman
• Online First at Journal of Chinese Political Science. 2024.
• Presented at 2022 WPSA Autocratic Politics Mini-Conference, UPenn CSCC Speaker Series
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3. At Your Own Risk: A Model of Delegation with Ambiguous Guidelines
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2022) 2(4): 483-508.
• Presented at 2021 APSA Formal Theory Virtual Workshop, 2018 New Faces in China Studies Conference, 2019 MPSA Annual Meeting, and the 2019 EITM Summer Institute.
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2. Closing Open Government: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s Open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath
• with Rachel Stern, Benjamin Liebman and Xiaohan Wu
Comparative Political Studies (2022) 55(2): 319-347.
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1. Understanding Experimentation and Implementation: A Case Study of China’s Government Transparency Policy
• with Kevin O’Brien
Asian Survey (2021) 61(4): 591–614.
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Rightful Challengers: How Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers Encourage Judge-Prosecutor Disagreement
• with Yue Hou
• Revise and Resubmit at World Politics.
• Presented at 2023 APSA Annual Meeting, 2023 ALSA (Asian Law and Society Association) Annual Meeting, and other workshops by coauthor
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Standard Language, Propaganda, and Government Satisfaction under Authoritarianism
• Under Review.
• Presented at 2023, 2024 APSA Annual Meeting (‘24 China mini-conference), Nanjing University
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Works in Progress

China’s Blacklists (with Peter Lorentzen)
A Formal Model of Autocratic Accommodation (with Tak-Huen Chau, Kevin O’Brien)
Linguistic Diversity and Communal Violence during China’s Cultural Revoltuion (with Yu Zeng)
AI Speech Recognition and Selective Digital Citizenship in China
Central Language Dominance v. Regional Language Retention
Language and Political Attitudes under Authoritarianism: Experimental Evidence from China

Teaching

NYU Shanghai

    SOCS-SHU 150: Introduction to Comparative Politics
    SOCS-SHU 331: Politics of China
    SOCS-SHU 402: Social Science Capstone Seminar


UC Berkeley

    PS 3: Introduction to Empirical Analysis and Quantitative Methods
    PS 232A: Formal Models of Political Science (graduate)