
Haemin Jee
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Swarthmore College
Haemin Jee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Swarthmore College. Her research bridges the political economy of China with the international and domestic implications of great power competition. Before arriving at Swarthmore, she was an Assistant Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She completed her PhD in 2022 at the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Prior to attending Stanford, she received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.
Research Areas
- Bureaucratic Incentives and Government Responsiveness in China — Governance, 2026
- How Patronage Communicates: Information Campaigns and Government Responsiveness in China — Conditional Acceptance, PSRM
- The Social Credit System as a Law-Enforcing Tool — Book Chapter, 2025
- Credit for Compliance — Book Project
- Oppose Autocracy without Support for Democracy — Perspectives on Politics, 2025
- Towards a Unified Approach to Research on Democratic Backsliding — Democratization, 2022
- Xi's Grip on Power is Now China's Biggest Domestic Challenge — World Politics Review, 2022