Welcome! My name is Kevin (Tse-Luen) Wu, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester.
I work on comparative politics and American politics, with a focus on electoral institutions and legislative behavior of democracies. I primarily use observational data and leverage causal identification methods to examine how institutions shape the behavior of political parties and individuals. My comparative politics work specifically focuses on party strategies, political representation, and the long-term effects of historical institutions. My American politics work centers on the relationship between party organization in the House of Representatives and money in politics. Through these studies, my research seeks to clarify how parties and individuals respond to institutions and to uncover the underlying mechanisms, using rigorous analytical tools such as causal inference.
Before coming to Rochester, I received my M.A. and B.A. degrees in political science from National Taiwan University.