Weiwei Hu

Greetings!  I am a doctoral candidate of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY).  I expect to receive my Ph.D degree in July 2012, advised by Professor William Heller.  I received my M.A. in Public Administration and B.A. in English from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

About Me and My Work

My areas of specialization include comparative politics, quantitative and formal research methods, and international relations.  My research interests center around political parties, legislatures, and institutional analysis with particular emphasis on internal party politics and party policy positioning.  My dissertation explores the consequence of party organization and discipline for party policy-making.  My work also extends to other fields, including representation and policy, measurement of policy preferences of legislators, East Asian and Chinese politics, democracy and authoritarianism, US Congress, and quantitative and formal research methods.  My interests and qualifications allow me to put my skills to work and compare political institutions around the world in both advanced industrialized democracies as well non-democratic countries.  My teaching interests include topics on comparative political institutions, political parties and interest groups, politics and governments of Asia and China, democracy and dictatorship, transitions to democracy, and research methods.