Jieun Kim is an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Political Science at NYU Shanghai. Kim’s research centers on authoritarian leaders’ governing strategy with a regional focus on China. She studies 1) how Chinese leaders attempt to enhance government accountability and manage social grievances by adopting institutions such as the legal system and transparency platforms; and 2) how citizen engagement in these institutions feeds back into the leaders’ strategy. Her works have been published in Asian Survey, Comparative Political Studies 和 Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.

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

Select Publications

• Jieun Kim. “At Your Own Risk: A Model of Delegation with Ambiguous Guidelines.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2022) 2(4): 483-508.
• Jieun Kim, Rachel Stern, Benjamin Liebman, and Xiaohan Wu. “Closing Open Government: Grass-roots Policy Conversion and its Aftermath.” Comparative Political Studies (2022) 55(2): 319-347.
• Jieun Kim and Kevin O’Brien. “Understanding Experimentation and Implementation: A Case Study of China’s Government Transparency Policy.” Asian Survey (2021) 61(4): 591–614.

Education

• PhD, Political Science
  University of California, Berkeley (2021)
• MA, Political Science
  University of California, Berkeley (2016)
• BA, Political Science
  Seoul National University (2013)

Research Interests