Hello!

Welcome to my website. I am currently a Parliamentary Intern with the Parliamentary Internship Programme. I recently graduated with an Honours BA from Western University, where I studied political science and economics. This fall, I will start my PhD in Politics at Princeton University.

Research Interests

I am interested in legislative behaviour, political parties, and elite polarization in high income democracies. Questions surrounding the ways that institutions impact political elites and the implications of these relationships in polarized political environments animate my research.

CV

You can access the latest version of my CV here.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

• Payler, Megan, Cynthia Huo, Cameron Anderson, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, and Christopher Alcantara. 2024. “Is there a Gender Gap in the Canadian Journal of Political Science?” Forthcoming at the American Review of Canadian Studies.

• Brie, Evelyne, Cynthia Huo, and Christopher Alcantara. 2023. “Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems: The Case of Legalizing Cannabis in Canada under Time Constraints.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism.

• Huo, Cynthia, Philip Charbonneau, and Christopher Alcantara. 2022. “Overcoming Barriers to Indigenous-Local Water Sharing Agreements in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration 65, no. 3: 421-438.

Other Publications

• Huo, Cynthia. 2023. “A Question of Privilege: The Speaker as Guardian of the House of Commons.” Canadian Parliamentary Review 46, no. 2: 31-37.

• Huo, Cynthia and Jonathan Malloy. 2023. “Extreme partisanship is infecting committees, and we should be worried.” Policy Options.

Works in Progress

• Cynthia Huo. “Committees as a Workplace.” In Parliament as a Workplace: Trends and Changes. Organized by the Canadian Study of Parliament Group.

Contact

You can find me on Twitter here. My email address is cynthiachuo@hotmail.com

Ethics Documentation

Survey of MPs in the Canadian House of Commons (2024): available in English here. and French here.