Cynthia Huo (霍长欣)

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 legislative politics, the impact of party cues on public opinion, and minority political behaviour.

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.

Works in Progress

“Legislative Behaviour and the Dynamics of Representation in the Canadian Provinces.”

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.