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Dr Ju Yeon Park

Lecturer
Department of Government
Dr Ju Yeon Park
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  • Location

    5A.135, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 5.A135 Please send me an email to make an appointment.

Profile

Biography

Dr. Park's research focuses on politicians’ legislative and communication styles they choose to perform under various institutional constraints in American politics context, and she further explores electoral consequences and policy implications resulting from their stylistic choices. For the research, she uses text analysis, machine learning, causal inference, formal modeling and experimental methods. Her research has been published or forthcoming at Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, etc. Previous modules she taught include US Congress and various quantitative methods at doctoral, masters and undergraduate levels. She obtained her PhD in Politics from New York University. Prior to joining Essex, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Computational Social Dynamics Lab, University of Pittsburgh and at the Department of Political Science in Washington University in St, Louis.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Politics New York University,

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • American Political Institutions (GV369)

  • United States Politics (GV963)

Publications

Journal articles (5)

Ban, P., Park, JY. and You, HY., (2023). How Are Politicians Informed? Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress. American Political Science Review. 117 (1), 122-139

Park, JY., (2021). When Do Politicians Grandstand? Measuring Message Politics in Committee Hearings. The Journal of Politics. 83 (1), 214-228

Park, JY., (2019). Committee chair’s majority partisan status and its effect on information transmission via hearings. The Journal of Legislative Studies. 25 (4), 614-624

Park, JY., (2019). Punishing without rewards? A comprehensive examination of the asymmetry in economic voting. Electoral Studies. 57, 1-18

Park, JY., (2017). A Lab Experiment on Committee Hearings: Preferences, Power, and a Quest for Information. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 42 (1), 3-31

Grants and funding

2021

Measuring the Changing Role of Legislative Committees

British Academy

Contact

jp20761@essex.ac.uk

Location:

5A.135, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 5.A135 Please send me an email to make an appointment.