Choi, Donghyun Danny

Donghyun Danny Choi

Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science

Overview

Danny Choi is the Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research and teaching focus on political parties, identity politics, immigration, and African politics.

His work on these themes has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis, among others.

His first (co-authored) book, Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, was published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Studies in Political Behavior series in 2022. It received the Best Book Award from the Experimental Research Section of APSA in 2023.

He is currently completing his second book, Severed Connections: Intraparty Politics and Representation in Kenya, which won APSA’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy presented by the Democracy and Autocracy Section of APSA in 2020.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Prior to joining Brown, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh and a pre/postdoctoral fellow at the Identity & Conflict Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brown Affiliations

Political Science

Research Areas

Europe | identity politics | immigration | Political parties | Sub-Saharan Africa

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Baron, Hannah, Blair, Robert A., Choi, Donghyun Danny, Gamboa, Laura, Gottlieb, Jessica, Robinson, Amanda Lea, Rosenzweig, Steven C., Turnbull, Megan M., West, Emily A. "Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization." Political Behavior, 2025.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Shen-Bayh, Fiona. "How Oppositions Turn Authoritarian." Journal of Democracy, vol. 36, no. 4, 2025, pp. 75-91.

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Arriola, Leonardo R., Choi, Donghyun Danny, Davis, Justine M., Phillips, Melanie L., Rakner, Lise. "Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth." Comparative Political Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 2024, pp. 78-121.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Harris, J. Andrew, Shen-Bayh, Fiona. "Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya." American Political Science Review, 2022, pp. 1-14.

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Arriola, Leonardo R, Choi, Donghyun Danny, Gichohi, Matthew K. "Increasing Intergroup Trust: Endorsements and Voting in Divided Societies." The Journal of Politics, 2022.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias, Sambanis, Nicholas. Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants. Princeton University Press, 2022.

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Kim, Eunji, Badrinathan, Sumitra, Choi, Donghyun Danny, Karim, Sabrina, Zhou, Yang-Yang. "Navigating Insider and Outsider Status as Researchers Conducting Field Experiments." PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022.

Arriola, Leonardo R, Choi, Donghyun Danny, Davis, Justine M, Phillips, Melanie L, Rakner, Lise. "Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies." Party Politics, vol. 28, no. 3, 2021, pp. 507-520.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias, Sambanis, Nicholas. "Temperature and outgroup discrimination." Political Science Research and Methods, 2021, pp. 1-9.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias, Sambanis, Nicholas. "The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants." American Journal of Political Science, 2021.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias, Sambanis, Nicholas. "Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany." Journal of Experimental Political Science, vol. 8, no. 3, 2020, pp. 235-246.

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Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias, Sambanis, Nicholas. "Parochialism, social norms, and discrimination against immigrants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 33, 2019, pp. 16274-16279.

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Krogslund, Chris, Choi, Donghyun Danny, Poertner, Mathias. "Fuzzy Sets on Shaky Ground: Parameter Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias in fsQCA." Political Analysis, vol. 23, no. 1, 2015, pp. 21-41.

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Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2018	PhD	University of California at Berkeley
2012	MA	University of California at Berkeley
2007	BA	Korea University

Postdoctoral/Other Training

Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow

Identity and Conflict Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Political Science

2017-2019

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Honors and Awards

Best Book award, Experimental Research Section, APSA 2023
Luebbert Award for Best Article in Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics Section, APSA 2022
Rebecca Morton Best JEPS Article Award, Experimental Research Section, APSA 2022
Best Paper Award, European Politics & Society Section, APSA 2021
Fiona McGillivray Award for Best Paper, Political Economy Section, APSA 2020
Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy, Democracy & Autocracy Section, APSA 2020

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Donghyun Danny Choi

Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Education and Training

Postdoctoral/Other Training

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