MAGGIE SHUM
I am an assistant professor of political science at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Prior to joining Penn State, I served as Research and Program Associate of the Global Policy Initiative (GPI) at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame for four years. I am also a member of the Global PB Research Board at People Powered (a global hub for participatory democracy), as well as the Campaign for Hong Kong Board.
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, transnational contentious politics, social movement 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, transnational contentious politics, social movement 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 explore how protest movements develop new repertoires, organizational structure, and claim-making strategies to adapt to the adverse political structure in Hong Kong in my article "When Voting Turnout Becomes Contentious Repertoire: How Anti-ELAB Protest Overtook the District Council Election in Hong Kong 2019". I am a co-principal investigator on two projects that investigate the intersection of contentious politics, voting behavior, and diaspora studies. The Hong Kong Voices in the US project examines the connection diasporas have with their heritage rather than relying on the partisan lens widely used in the US context to explain their political engagement and vote choice. The Trump Factor in Hong Kong and Taiwan project aims to tease out the driving factor for the surge of Trump’s support among Hong Kongers and Taiwanese during the 2020 US elections.
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; the Presidential Transition Index (PTI) project to track and assess the Trump-Biden transition; and the South Bend Attitude project that examines how resident's interaction with local government can impact that political attitudes and behaviors.
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, and penned the 2021 Hong Kong report in Freedom in the World, the flagship publication of the Freedom House.
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; the Presidential Transition Index (PTI) project to track and assess the Trump-Biden transition; and the South Bend Attitude project that examines how resident's interaction with local government can impact that political attitudes and behaviors.
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, and penned the 2021 Hong Kong report in Freedom in the World, the flagship publication of the Freedom House.
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.
