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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,\u00a0UC Berkeley<\/em><\/strong>
\nResearch\u00a0Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"Cecilia Hyunjung Mo holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics and an M.A. Political Science from Stanford University; an MPA in International Development from Harvard University; and an M.A. Education from Loyola Marymount University. During the 2015-2016 academic year, she was\u00a0a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow<\/a> at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.<\/p>\n

Professor Mo\u00a0specializes in behavioral political economy, comparative political behavior, the political economy of development, and social policy research. Her scholarly contributions can be broadly classified as being of two types.<\/p>\n

First, she is interested in understanding democratic citizenship and the development of informed interventions aimed at meeting contemporary challenges. The health of a democratic polity rests upon the public possessing a sufficient level of trust in government, political efficacy, civic engagement, tolerance, and respect for human rights. Her research centers on how the norms and values of democratic citizenship can be cultivated; and on both understanding and responding to the following challenges to democratic citizenship: (1) group-based intolerance; (2) irrational political participation; (3) modern day slavery; and (4) poverty and inequality.<\/p>\n

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Second, Professor Mo sheds new light on important policy-relevant research by viewing actors as boundedly rational, the notion that in decision-making, the rationality of individuals is limited by the cognitive constraints of their minds, and the finite amount of time they have to make decisions. Her research integrates theories of bounded rationality like aspiration-based frameworks, prospect theory, and unconscious attitudes into models and empirical analyses of political and economic decision-making and institutions.<\/p>\n

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Professor Mo has published research in the\u00a0American Journal of Political Science<\/em>, the\u00a0American Political Science Review<\/em>, the Journal of Politics<\/em>, the Journal of Theoretical Politics<\/em>, Political Behavior<\/em>, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, and\u00a0World Development<\/em>. She is the recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA)’s 2015 Franklin L. Burdette\/Pi Sigma Alpha Award<\/a> for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting and the 2016 Best Article\u00a0in\u00a0Political Behavior<\/em> award from APSA’s Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Section<\/a>. She has also been awarded over $1.6 million grant dollars to support her research agenda in the last three years.<\/p>\n

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Recent Media Mentions (Selected)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Get the Facts: Implicit Bias and the AAUW Implicit Association Test on Gender and Leadership<\/a>, AAUW
\nProgress Isn\u2019t Progress Unless It Happens For You<\/a>, Vanderbilt News
\nThe Hidden Toll Of Floods<\/a>, NPR
\nWhy Do We Think Poor People Are Poor Because of Their Own Bad Choices?<\/a>, The Guardian
\nMany Americans Still Underestimate the Risks of Smoking<\/a>, Stanford News
\nTeach For America Service Leads to Empathy<\/a>, Vanderbilt News
\nThink You\u2019re Not Biased? Think Again<\/a>, Science News
\nTeach For America Could Be Exactly What America\u2019s Schools Need to Reduce Implicit Bias<\/a>, Education Post
\nWhy We Should Make Our Politicians Filthy Rich – Really<\/a>, OXY
\nHillary Clinton Will Not Be Manterrupted<\/a>, New York Times
\nPolitics Not as Usual<\/a>, Vanderbilt News
\nThe Joy Cardin Show<\/a>, Wisconsin Public Radio
\nHow Monday\u2019s England-Slovakia Soccer Match Just Might Influence Brexit<\/a>, Washington Post (Monkey Cage)
\nClinton Embraces `Woman Card’ But Needs More to Beat Trump<\/a>, Bloomberg
\nThe Challenges Hillary Clinton and I Face Every Day<\/a>, Huffington Post
\nA Look at President Obama’s Final State Union<\/a>, Wisconsin Public Radio
\nWomen Candidates Face Implicit Bias Hurdle<\/a>, Scientific American
\nHow Gender Bias Plays a Role in Elections<\/a>, Huffington Post
\nShe Gets No Respect: Sexism Persists, Even Among the Enlightened<\/a>, New York Times
\nBad News for Hillary?<\/a>, Daily Mail UK
\nVoters Still See Women as Poor Leaders (But Good Assistants)<\/a>, Wired
\nHidden Bias Says Women Don’t Look Like Leaders<\/a>, Futurity
\nNot Just Anti-Hispanic<\/a>, Slate
\nMark Mellman: The Rising US Asian Electorate<\/a>, The Hill
\nShifts in the Way Asian Americans Vote<\/a>, Voice of America Podcast
\nTrump Thinks that Being Born in the U.S. Shouldn\u2019t Make You a Citizen<\/a>, Washington Post (Monkey Cage)
\nCan the Republican Party Thrive on White Identity?<\/a>, Washington Post (Monkey Cage)
\nWhy do Asian Americans Mostly Vote for Democrats?<\/a>, Washington Post (Monkey Cage)
\nThe Impact of the Asian American Vote<\/a>, MSNBC (UP With Steve Kornacki)
\nHow Voters Can Beat Special Interest Groups<\/a>, Stanford Business Magazine
\nWould Voters Win if Politicians Got a Raise?<\/a>, Futurity
\nShould We Pay Politicians More?<\/a>, POLITICO
\nHow Voters Can Beat Special Interest<\/a>, Stanford Graduate School of Business
\nBlue Jay Game 3 and the Canadian Elections<\/a>, CBC Radio (The\u00a0Current with Anna Marie Tremonti)
\nRaises for Elected Representatives Could Lead to Better Representation<\/a>, Vanderbilt News
\nHere’s Why Some Brazilian Politicians Could Want Their Team To Lose At The World Cup<\/a>, Business Insider
\nHas Superstorm Sandy Chosen Who the Next US President Is?<\/a>, Huffington Post
\nSports Results Affect Voter Behavior<\/a>, Scientific American
\nWill Ohio State\u2019s Football Team Decide Who Wins the White House?<\/a>, Slate
\nFootball, Weather and Shark Attacks — The Irrational Voter’s Checklist<\/a>, Washington Times
\nVanderbilt Researcher Working to Fight Human Trafficking<\/a>, Vanderbilt News
\nVanderbilt Political Scientist Tapped To Help Find End To Human Trafficking<\/a>, Nashville Public Radio
\nVanderbilt Receives $1M Grant to Combat Child Labor<\/a>, The Tennessean
\nUSAID Announces Grants to Three Universities to Combat Human Trafficking<\/a>, USAID
\nBureau of International Labor Affairs Invests $11M to Strengthen Oversight and Effectiveness of Programs to Combat Child Labor and Forced Labor<\/a>, US Department of Labor<\/p>\n

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