I am an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. My research interests include US Politics, Legislative Politics, Social Choice, Political Economy, and Legislative Politics in Korea. In particular, I am interested in how Congress makes decisions on public policies, including civil rights, immigration, trade, and foreign policy issues. My methodological interests include Bayesian statistics, multilevel modeling, and ideal point estimation.

Visit my personal website at https://blogs.ubc.ca/gyunghojeong/

US Politics, Legislative Politics, Social Choice, Political Economy, and Legislative Politics in Korea. Bayesian statistics, multilevel modeling, and ideal point estimation.

• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2025. “Why Would a Majority Agree to Adopting Supermajority Rules When They Empower a Minority? The Institutional Choice of the National Assembly of Korea,” Journal of Legislative Studies, Forthcoming.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2024. “When Voting No is Not Enough: Legislative Brawling and Obstruction in Korea.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 49(4), 801-814.
• William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2024. “Beyond Party: Ideological Convictions and Foreign Policy Conflicts in the US Congress” in Gordon M. Friedrichs and Jordan Tama Eds, Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge. Palgrave Macmillan.
• William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2023. “Hawks versus Doves: Who Leads American Foreign Policy in the US Congress?” Foreign Policy Analysis, 19(4) October.
• William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2022. “Beyond Party: Ideological Convictions and Foreign Policy Conflicts in the US Congress,” International Politics. 59, 827–850.
• Shereen Kotb and Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2021. “The US Congress and Rogue States,” Foreign Policy Analysis 17(3).
• William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2021. “The Polarization of the Defense and Foreign Policy Committees in the US Congress,” in Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott, Eds., Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy: Activism, Assertiveness and Acquiescence in a Polarized Era, Rowman-Littlefield.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2021. “A Unifying Model for Hypothesis Testing Using Legislative Voting Data: A Multilevel Item-Response-Theory Model,” Analyses and Alternatives 5: 3 – 24.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong and William Lowry. 2021. “The Polarisation of Energy Policy in the US Congress,” Journal of Public Policy 41(1): 17-41.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2020. “Troops in ‘Harm’s Way’, the President, and Congressional War-Funding Decisions,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 50(3): 568-591.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2020. “Public Opinion and Senate Treaty Ratification,” Analyses and Alternatives, 4(2): 5-38.
• William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong. “Gender and Foreign Policy: Are Female Members of Congress More Dovish Than Their Male Colleagues?” Political Research Quarterly 73:126–140.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong and Paul J. Quirk, 2019. “Division at the Water’s Edge: The Polarization of Foreign Policy,” American Politics Research, 47(1): 58-87.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2018. “Measuring Foreign Policy Positions of Members of the US Congress,” Political Science Research and Methods, 6(1): 181-196.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2017. “The Supermajority Core of the US Senate and the Failure to Join the League of Nations,” Public Choice, 173(3-4): 325-343.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2016. “Electoral Rules and Bureaucratic Effectiveness,” Politics and Policy 44(6): 1089-1115.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong, William Lowry, Gary Miller, and Itai Sened. 2014. “How Preferences Change Institutions: The 1978 Energy Act,” Journal of Politics 76(2): 430-445.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2013. “Congressional Politics of U.S. Immigration Reforms: Legislative Outcomes Under Multidimensional Negotiations,” Political Research Quarterly 66(3): 600-614.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong, Gary Miller, Camilla Schofield, and Itai Sened. 2011. “Cracks in the Opposition: Immigration as a Wedge Issue for the Reagan Coalition,” American Journal of Political Science 55(3): 511-525 .
• Gyung-Ho Jeong, Gary Miller, and Itai Sened. 2009. “Closing the Deal: Negotiating Civil Rights Legislation,” American Political Science Review 103(4): 588-606.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2009. “Constituent Influence on International Trade Policy in the United States, 1987 to 2006,” International Studies Quarterly 53(2): 519-540.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong, Gary Miller, and Andrew Sobel. 2009. “Political Compromise and Bureaucratic Structure: The Political Origins of the Federal Reserve System,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 25(2): 472-498.
• Gyung-Ho Jeong. 2008. “Testing the Predictions of the Multidimensional Spatial Voting Model with Roll Call Data,” Political Analysis 16(2):179-196.

2018 – Winner of the Duncan Black Prize for the best paper published in Public Choice during calendar year 2017 by a senior scholar: The Supermajority Core of the US Senate and the Failure to Join the League of Nations, Public Choice 2017, 173(3-4): 325-343.

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