Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

Choi, Jeongho. 2025. “Evolving Populist Rhetoric: How Public Approval Shapes its Employment.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

Choi, Jeongho and Byung-Deuk Woo. 2025. “Support for a Strong Leader or Democracy, or Both?” Democratization 32 (1): 76-95.

Woo, Byung-Deuk and Jeongho Choi. 2025. “The Impacts of Justification of Income Inequality on the Confidence in the Women’s Movements: Empirical Evidence from Asia-Pacific Countries.” Sage Open. (Corresponding)

Binici, Simal, Jeongho Choi, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, and Elise Pizzi. 2025. “A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 33. (authors in alphabetical order).

Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, Elise Pizzi, Carly Millerd and Jeongho Choi. 2024. “Does Government Response to Natural Disasters Explain Violence? The Case of the Sendero Luminoso and Conflict in Peru.” Social Science Quarterly 105: 1493-1504.

Hwang, Jeongnam and Jeongho Choi. 2024. “Unwelcome Immigrants Knocking on the Door: Demographic Features of Immigrants and Populist Attitudes Rising in South American Countries.” International Migration Review. (Corresponding)

Manuscripts under Review

Choi, Jeongho and Yujin Julia Jung. “Does Immigration Fuel Populism? The Effect of Immigration on the Rise of Populist Rhetoric.” (R&R)

Ahn, Seongjoon and Jeongho Choi. “Democratic Backsliding as Political Information: How the News Media Transforms its Portrayal of Democracy Over Time.” (Corresponding)

• Received Best Graduate Student Conference Paper, the dept of Poli Sci, University of Iowa.

Ma, Haofeng, Jeongho Choi, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Yue Hu, and Frederick Solt. “Macrodiscontent Across Countries.” (Corresponding)

Ma, Haofeng and Jeongho Choi. “Manufacturing Political Support through Language: The Role of Educational Language in Shaping Political Support among Minorities.” (Corresponding)

Woo, Byung-Deuk and Jeongho Choi. “The Influence of Public Negative Sentiments on Bill Success.” (Corresponding)

Working papers

Choi, Jeongho and Byung-Deuk Woo. “Public Support for Democracy and Different Patterns of Democratic Backsliding.”

Choi, Jeongho and Haofeng Ma. “The Deceptiveness of Presidential Personas: The Gap Between Spontaneous and Formal Leadership Traits and Its Impact on Political Trust.”

• The paper will be featured in The Year in C-SPAN Research by Purdue University Press.

Choi, Jeongho and Seongjoon Ahn. “Beyond the “Losers of Globalization”: Ideology, Democratic Attitudes, and the Diversity of Populist Support in Europe.”

Choi, Jeongho and Haofeng Ma. “Support Which Democracy? Liberal Democracy, Guardianship Democracy, and Democratic Backsliding.”

Choi, Jeongho and Yujin Julia Jung. “Populism and the Support for Democracy: Dissecting the Divergent Democratic Beliefs of Populist Supporters.”

Choi, Jeongho and Eduardo Ryo Tamaki. “Political Representation and Public Support for Populism in Latin America.”

Choi, Jeongho and Yujin Julia Jung. “Created Crisis or Speaking Up for People’s Concerns? The Relationship between Populism and Immigration.” (in progress)

Choi, Jeongho. “Ideological Divides and Opposition Cooperation in Countering Democratic Backsliding.” (in progress)

Choi, Jeongho and Byung-Deuk Woo. “How Perceptions of Democracy Shape Citizens’ Views on Representation.” (in progress)

Choi, Jeongho and Seongjoon Ahn. “The Power of Democratic Frames: A Survey Experiment on Public Perceptions.” (in progress)

Seo, Heyri, Soojin Lee, and Jeongho Choi. “Hate, Fear, and Gender: Why Some Democracies Resist Far-Right Rhetoric While Others Normalize It.” (in progress)