Dr. Haemin Jee
Assistant Professor of International Affairs
haemin.jee@westpoint.edu
Biography
Dr. Haemin Jee is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy. She teaches courses on Chinese politics and government, international political economy, comparative political economy, authoritarian regimes, and international relations. Her research interests include China’s political economy, Chinese public opinion, durability of authoritarian regimes, and democratic backsliding, with research published in Democratization. Dr. Jee holds a PhD in political science from Stanford University and a A.B. in Government from Harvard University. For more information, visit her website at https://haeminjee.com.
Ongoing Research Projects
How do authoritarian regimes regulate economic players, induce greater compliance with laws, and generally establish social order without empowering institutions that could undermine their political power? I argue that autocrats pursue a strategy of institutional layering – the creation of new information-gathering and punitive mechanisms. These new institutions identify and punish violators of existing laws and facilitate coordination between government agencies, bypassing principal-agent problems embedded in existing institutions. This dissertation leverages fieldwork, close readings of government texts, original data on local implementation of policy, computational text analysis, modern causal inference methods, and survey experiments to develop and test the theory of institutional proliferation through an empirical examination of the social credit system in China.
Publications & Presentations
Jee, Haemin, Lueders, Hans, and Rachel Myrick. “Towards a Unified Approach to Research on Democratic Backsliding.” Democratization (2021).
Jee, Haemin. “Oppose Democracy without Support for Democracy: A study of Non-Democratic Critics in China.” Paper presented at Young Scholars Conference. University of California, San Diego. July 2022.
Jee, Haemin. “Local Incentives and Government Responsiveness in China.” Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Conference. September 2021.
Jee, Haemin. “Credit for Compliance: How Institutional Layering Establishes Control in China.” Paper presented at New FACES in Chinese Politics Conference. Duke University. August 2021.