Dr. Hye Young

Biography

Hye Young holds a joint appointment in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her primary research focuses on the influence of interest groups on democratic representation in the United States, particularly examining the role of interest group lobbying in American politics. Her work investigates the specific mechanisms and strategies used by interest groups to lobby, shedding light on their crucial role, which is often understudied, in policymaking. She explores how politicians are informed by interest groups and how these groups control the provision of information to policymakers. In addition to her core research agenda on lobbying, she is interested in federalism and the local political economy, particularly how local government finances affect the provision of local public goods and intergovernmental relations. Hye Young's research has been published in prestigious journals such as the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Politics. Her work has been recognized with multiple discipline-wide Paper awards from the American Political Science Association.

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