Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica

Seonghui Lee is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (IPSAS). She studies how people perceive and make sense of politics, and how political and informational contexts shape such perceptions and citizen behaviors. Her research examines questions about political knowledge and citizen competence, the implications of the gender gap in political attitudes and behaviors, and voter reactions to policies and crises from comparative perspectives. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Political Psychology, Political Science Research & Methods, and West European Politics, among others. She is also the co-author of Heuristic Inference and the Left-Right: An Experimental Analysis of How Voters Form Their Left-Right Images of Parties (Cambridge University Press, 2026), and Partisan Identity in Multi-Party Democracies (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Before joining IPSAS, she held positions at the University of Essex (UK), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the University of Zürich (Switzerland).