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Yujin J. Jung, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Jung's research examines political behavior and political communication in established and emerging democracies, with particular attention to populism, democratic norms, and the language of politics. Methodologically, her work spans survey experiments and computational text analysis, including the use of large language models.
Learn more about Dr. Jung at yujinjuliajung.com.
Choi, J., and Jung, Y. J. (2026). "Does Immigration Fuel Populism? The Effect of Immigration on the Rise of Populist Rhetoric." Political Science Quarterly.
Park, B. B., and Jung, Y. J. (2026). "Populism, Ideology, and the Endorsement of Martial Law: A Conditional Relationship." Government and Opposition.
Tamaki, E. R., and Jung, Y. J. (2025). "The Non-Linearity Between Populist Attitudes and Ideological Extremism." Political Science Research & Methods.
Jung, Y. J. (2025). "The Sectarian Divide: The Dynamics of Populism in South Korea." Journal of East Asian Studies, 25(2), 163-186.
Jung, Y. J. (2025). "Navigating Populism in America: Unveiling the Socio-Economic and Ideological Roots of Populist Attitudes." Social Science Quarterly, 106(2).
"The Politics of What Matters: Parties, Priorities, and Political Judgment," APSA Political Psychology Pre-Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 2026.
"Ideology, Extremism, and Populism," Frontiers in Empirical Research on East Asia (FEREA), New York University, New York, NY, January 2026.
"Populism Meets AI: Advancing Populism Research with LLMs," Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference (PolNet-PaCSS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 2025.
"Political Punitivism and Democratic Norm Violations," presented at 2024 Norms and Behavioral Change conference, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 2024.
"Populism in Comparative Perspective," presented TADA 2023: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data, Text-as-Data Meeting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, November 2023.
"Asian Populism," paper presented at the 10th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies, Ann Arbor, MI, May 12-13, 2023.