Jou Fei Huang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on the institutional factors that shape the allocation of public goods and on how foreign donors, as major providers, influence state legitimacy and public support for democracy, with particular attention to transportation and energy. Her central research questions examine the conditions under which governments mitigate the negative externalities of public goods provision and how geopolitical risk shapes policy processes. Her work has been published in Policy Studies.

Publication

Huang, Jou Fei, and Thung-Hong Lin. 2025. “Democracy, Women’s Political Empowerment, and Road Safety: Evidence from a Global Analysis, 2001–2019.” Policy Studies, Advance online publication, February, 1–28. doi:10.1080/01442872.2025.2462129.

Academic Book Reviews

Huang, Jou-Fei. “Review of A third way: The origins of China’s current economic development strategy, by L. C. Reardon.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28, no. 2 (2021): 136–39. www.jstor.org/stable/45416318.