Yehzee Ryoo

Welcome! I am Yehzee Ryoo, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an M.S. student in Statistics (Applied Statistics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

My research interests include public opinon and interstate conflict, political psychology and domestic politics of foreign policy. I examine the role of public perception, democratic norms, and electoral constraints in shaping democratic states' military strategies. In my dissertation, I explore the complex relationship between democratic states' public opinion and military operations, with a focus on moral considerations and how civilian casualties influence this dynamic.

I employ survey experiments, network analysis, time series, and text analysis to study these topics. I am also interested in the application of network data in causal mediation analysis.

You can find my Research and Projects and a copy of my CV here. Please feel free to reach out to me!

Publication

“Losing Hearts and Minds? Unpacking the Effects of Chinese Soft Power Initiatives in Africa” Cha, Sujin, Yehzee Ryoo, and Sung Eun Kim. (2023). Asian Survey, 63(1), 1-30.

Teaching

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Intro to Math for Political Science (Math Camp) - Summer 2024 & 2025
• PS812: Introduction to Statistical Methods (Instructor: Adeine Lo) - Fall 2022 & 2023
• PS813: Multi-variable Statistical Inference for Political Research (Instructor: Adeine Lo) - Spring 2023

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• Data Science and Text Analysis (Instructor: Kelsey Shoub, Caleb Pomeroy) - Summer 2023

Working Papers

Network-Mediated Causal Analysis (with Adeline Lo, Keith Levin)

Social Media Posts and Russo-Ukrainian War (with Jisoo Kim, Jon Pevehouse, Junda Li, Dhavan Shah, and Zening Duan)

Foreign Civilian Casualties and Support for War