Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

Choi, Jeongho and Yujin Julia Jung. Forthcoming. “Does Immigration Fuel Populism? The Effect of Immigration on the Rise of Populist Rhetoric” Political Science Quarterly.

Nyhuis, Dominic, Jona-Frederik Baumert, Jeongho Choi, Sebastian Block and Morten Harmening. “Modeling Issue Competence Over Time: A Bayesian Framework for Estimating Dynamic Issue Ownership.” Forthcoming. Political Science Research and Methods. (Corresponding)

Choi, Jeongho. 2025. “Evolving Populist Rhetoric: How Public Approval Shapes its Employment.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 33(3): 1048-1063.

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, 15(2). (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)

Woo, Byung-deuk and Jeongho Choi. 2022. “The Influence of Subnational Democracy on the Level of Public Health: A Case of Nigeria.” Comparative Democratic studies, 18(2): 5-28. (Corresponding)

Choi, Jeongho and Byung-deuk Woo. 2021. “The Legacy of Pro-Democracy Mass Protest and Democratic Survival: A Cross-National Survival Analysis from 1946 to 2016.” Social Science Studies, 29(2): 76-125.

Manuscripts under Review

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

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

Choi, Jeongho and Seongjoon Ahn. “Alternative Democratic Visions or Diffuse Dissatisfaction? Rethinking Populist Supporters’ Conceptions of Democracy.”

Working papers

Ma, Haofeng and Jeongho Choi. “The Deceptiveness of Presidential Personas: The Gap Between Spontaneous and Formal Leadership Traits and Its Impact on Political Trust.” (Corresponding; Accepted for inclusion in The Year in C-SPAN Research by Purdue University Press)

Choi, Jeongho and Haofeng Ma. “Support Which Democracy? Liberal Democracy, Guardianship Democracy, and Democratic Backsliding.” (Ready for Submission)

Ahn, Seongjoon and Jeongho Choi. “Democratic Backsliding as Political Information: How the News Media Transforms its Portrayal of Democracy Over Time.” (Corresponding; Ready for Submission; Received Best Graduate Student Conference Paper, Dept of Poli Sci, Univ of Iowa)

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

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

Choi, Jeongho. “Does Inclusive Representation Foster Democratic Support?”

Choi, Jeongho. “Random Forest and Party Positions’ on Diverse Issues.”

Choi, Jeongho. Substantive Political Representation and Public Support for Populism. (Book Project; Developed from Doctoral Dissertation)

Choi, Jeongho, Morten Harmening, Jona-Frederik Baumert, Simone Marsilio and Dominic Nyhuis. “Rallying Around Democracy? Partisan Responses to Political Violence.”

Marsilio, Simone, Jona-Frederik Baumert, Jeongho Choi, Morten Harmening and Dominic Nyhuis. “Improving Ballot Designs: A Conjoint Experiment on Ballot Designs.”

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

Choi, Jeongho, Haofeng Ma, Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Yue Hu, and Frederick Solt. “Discontented Citizens and the Stability of Democracy.”