Cynthia Huo

I am a second-year PhD student in Politics at Princeton University and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. My research interests are in American and Canadian political institutions.

I grew up in Markham, Ontario and received my BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in 2023.

Before coming to Princeton, I worked on Parliament Hill as part of the Parliamentary Internship Programme.

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. “The Gender Gap and Academic Publishing in Political Science: Evidence from Canada.” American Review of Canadian Studies 54(2): 141-160.
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 54(2): 228-256.
Huo, Cynthia, Philip Charbonneau, and Christopher Alcantara. 2022. “Overcoming Barriers to Indigenous-Local Water Sharing Agreements in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration 65(3): 421-438.

Under Review

Huo, Cynthia. “Committees as a Workplace: Examining the Organization, Functions, and Realities of Committees in the House of Commons.” In Parliament as a Workplace: Trends and Changes. Organized by the Canadian Study of Parliament Group.

Other Publications

Huo, Cynthia. 2023. “A Question of Privilege: The Speaker as Guardian of the House of Commons.” Canadian Parliamentary Review 46, no. 2: 25-31.
Huo, Cynthia and Jonathan Malloy. 2023. “Extreme partisanship is infecting committees, and we should be worried.” Policy Options.

Data

Scraped Roll-Call Voting Data from the 42nd Parliament of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Contact

You can find me on X here. My email address is cynthia.huo@princeton.edu

Ethics Documentation

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