Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong

Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong is an Associate Professor at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Her research interest is on the political economy of authoritarian regimes, with particular attention to East Asia such as China, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She has various ongoing research projects related to authoritarian elites’ behavior, the legacies of authoritarianism, and contemporary state building in East Asia. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Politics at New York University. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, and Electoral Studies among others.