MAGGIE SHUM
I am a Research and Program Associate of the Global Policy Initiative (GPI) at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. I also serve on the Global PB Research Board at People Powered (a global hub for participatory democracy).
I received my PhD in Political Science at Notre Dame, specializing in comparative politics with a regional focus in Latin America, Brazil and Hong Kong. I am interested in participatory policies, policy diffusion, political party organizations, contentious politics, and elections.
My dissertation “The Politics of Policy Diffusion: Party Organization Versus Individual Motivations in the Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil” focuses how participatory budgeting (PB) – a program that is heavily associated with the Workers’ Party (PT) – managed to spread across Brazil, and adopted by politicians from both the left and the right.
I received my PhD in Political Science at Notre Dame, specializing in comparative politics with a regional focus in Latin America, Brazil and Hong Kong. I am interested in participatory policies, policy diffusion, political party organizations, contentious politics, and elections.
My dissertation “The Politics of Policy Diffusion: Party Organization Versus Individual Motivations in the Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil” focuses how participatory budgeting (PB) – a program that is heavily associated with the Workers’ Party (PT) – managed to spread across Brazil, and adopted by politicians from both the left and the right.
My other project explores the relationship between the “stunted” party system development and the cycle of contentious politics in Hong Kong especially in recent years. Currently, I am also conducting a survey research "Hong Kong Voices in American Politics" to grasp Hong Kong-Americans' political attitudes in the 2020 US election.
I am part of the Comparative Assessment of Electoral Risk (CAER) project in evaluating the potential scenarios and their damage to democratic institutions and norm in the 2020 US election; and the Presidential Transition Index (PTI) project to track and assess the Trump-Biden transition.
I have commented on Hong Kong politics in the media including the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, the Diplomat, America Magazine, Mischiefs of Faction, La Tercera and etc.
I interned at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Freedom House, which I supported several reports: Freedom in the World (Hong Kong, China and Tibet), Freedom in the Net (China), and the China Media Bulletin.
I am part of the Comparative Assessment of Electoral Risk (CAER) project in evaluating the potential scenarios and their damage to democratic institutions and norm in the 2020 US election; and the Presidential Transition Index (PTI) project to track and assess the Trump-Biden transition.
I have commented on Hong Kong politics in the media including the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, the Diplomat, America Magazine, Mischiefs of Faction, La Tercera and etc.
I interned at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Freedom House, which I supported several reports: Freedom in the World (Hong Kong, China and Tibet), Freedom in the Net (China), and the China Media Bulletin.