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Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is a research fellow at the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Her research and teaching interests include comparative political institutions, administrative law and political economy of bureaucratic reform, particularly in the context of developing democracies in East Asia. She has conducted field research in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines, the results of which appear in her forthcoming book, Responsive Democracy: Increasing State Accountability in East Asia (University of Michigan Press). Scholarly journals in which her work has appeared include the British Journal of Political Science, Governance, Democratization, and Journal of East Asian Studies. A recipient of numerous research fellowships and awards, including a National Science Foundation grant, her current research focuses on the different ways that politicians restructure the state in Asia after democratic transition. Presently she serves on the editorial board for the Political Science Network (PSN) at SSRN.com. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, she was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and an assistant professor in the political science department at UC San Diego. She received her PhD in political science at UCLA.