Political Science

Min Hee Go

Office:   Raubinger 435
Phone:   973-720-3891
Email:   GoM1@wpunj.edu
Office Hours:   Spring 2013: Mondays 2:00-3:00 p.m.; Tuesdays 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Department: Political Science
Area Specialization: American politics, methodology

Min Hee Go is assistant professor of political science with emphases on American politics and quantitative methodology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2012 and joined the department in the same year. She has taught classes on national political institutions, research methods, and civic engagement. Her teaching and research interests include urban politics, state and local politics, race and ethnicity, and spatial analysis. Her current project examines the diffusion of building code adoption and expansion across US states and localities, 1970-2006.

Spring 2013 Courses:

Congress and Policy Procedure

Research Methods

Civic Engagement: Theory and Practice

Publications:

Min Hee Go. forthcoming. “The Power of Participation: Explaining the Issuance of Building Permits in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Urban Affairs Review.

Min Hee Go. 2012. “The Federal Disaster: The Failed Logic of Disaster Prevention in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Mathieu Deflem (ed.) Disasters, Hazards and Law (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance). 17:155-174.

Min Hee Go. 2011. “Saving Public Education: Book Review of ‘Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning.” State and Local Government Review. 43:72-76.

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