Danny Choi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Identity and Conflict Lab

University of Pennsylvania

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Identity and Conflict Lab (ICL) at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting Fall 2019, I will join the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor of Political Science.

My book project, Severed Connections: Political Parties and Democratic Representation in Africa, investigates how political parties and the nature of candidate selection institutions influence the relationship between elected representatives and their constituents in new democracies.

My research has been supported by the Institute for International Studies (IIS), Center for African Studies (CAS), and the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study at UC Berkeley, the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), and the Research Council of Norway (RCN).

Interests

Party politics
Political behavior
Identity politics
Political methodology

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, 2018

University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Political Science, 2012

University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Economics, 2007

Korea University

book project

Severed Connections: Political Parties and Democratic Representation in Africa

journal articles

Chris Krogslund, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner (2015). Fuzzy Sets on Shaky Ground: Parameter Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias in fsQCA. Political Analysis 23(1), 21-41.

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working papers

Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, Nicholas Sambanis (2018). Parochialism, Social Norms, and Discrimination against Immigrants. Working Paper (Under Review).

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Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Justine Davis, Melanie Phillips, Lise Rakner, Ingvild Skage (2018). The Business of Politics: Candidate Defection and Party Institutionalization in Africa. Working Paper (Under Review).

PDF Supplementary Materials

Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, David Dow, Matthew Gichohi (2018). Do Competitive Elections Improve Public Goods Distribution?. Working Paper.

Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Matthew Gichohi (2018). Political Endorsements and Cross-Ethnic Voting in Africa. Working Paper.

Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Staffan Lindberg (2018). The Rejection of Election Results in Africa. Working Paper (Revise and Resubmit).

manuscripts in progress

Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Matthew Gichohi, Kennedy Opalo (2018). Accountability Under Devolved Government: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya. Working Paper.

Donghyun Danny Choi, Benjamin Laughlin, Anna Schultz (2018). Communications Technology and National Identity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Working Paper.

Donghyun Danny Choi (2018). Congruence or Disconnect? Local Issue Priorities and Public Spending in Kenya. Working Paper.

Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Matthew Gichohi, Kennedy Opalo (2018). The Effect of Political Campaigns in Multi-ethnic Societies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Working Paper.

teaching

University of California, Berkeley:

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
PS2 Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate lecture)
PS146A African Politics (undergraduate lecture)