Trung-Anh H. Nguyen

Hello! My name is Trung-Anh and I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University with a focus on political institutions and methodology. My substantive research interests are on authoritarian politics, single-party regimes, and Southeast Asia. My various projects explore how institutional arrangements have shaped political behaviors and the variation in state capacity among autocracies. I employ a range of methods in my research, including survey and field experiments, latent variable modeling, process tracing, and focus groups.

Some of my academic work is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics and has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, and Political Communication. I also served as a research assistant for the EGAP Metaketa Round V Steering Committee, where I contributed to the meta-analysis. Before graduate school, I was a research associate in market research and political polling at EMC Research in Seattle, WA. I hold an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College.

You can reach me at trunganh.nguyen@duke.edu.