Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. I specialize in comparative politics,  political behavior, and political methodology, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

My dissertation research broadly centers on representation in new democracies, focusing on how political parties and the nature of candidate selection influence the behavior of elected representatives. The fieldwork for this research has been supported by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), as well as the Institute for International Studies (IIS) and Center for African Studies (CAS) at UC Berkeley. 

I am also working on a series of research projects on governance and accountability in Africa. These include a field experiment on how the budgetary performance of elected officials affects voting behavior in Kenya, a large network survey of Zambian political candidates, and a high frequency panel survey of public opinion in Kenya. 

You can reach me at dhchoi [at] sas.upenn.edu.
You can access my CV [here].