Choi, Seo Youn

Seo Youn's research and teaching interests focus on comparative politics and public policy, particularly public opinion, bureaucracy, government responsiveness, and social policy. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at Michigan State University. Seo Youn has presented her research at the conference of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association. During the summers, she took courses and served as a teaching assistant for Regression Analysis I and for Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Seo Youn is teaching an undergraduate course on Comparative Welfare-state Policies in Spring 2012. Seo Youn's dissertation investigates the role of public bureaucracies in advanced democratic societies and examines the traits of public bureaucracies that citizens expect them to possess. She is expected to complete her degree program in May 2013.