Christian James Fong
Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
Christian Fong specializes in the study of the United States Congress. He also does research in statistical methodology that explores the relationship between machine learning and inference. Before coming to Michigan, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, where he served as an economic policy advisor to Senator Mike Lee.
- Nicolas Florez, Christian James Fong. 2026. Cover Bills. Legislative Studies Quarterly 51(1):e70054.
- Christian James Fong, Joshua McCrain, Catherine Wineinger. 2026. Campaign Contributions, Reciprocity, and Gender Solidarity. The Journal of Politics
- Eldes, Ayse, Christian James Fong, Kenneth Scott Lowande. 2025. Does Ambition Counteract Ambition?.
- Christian James Fong, Michael Kistner. 2025. Ambition and Conflict in State Legislatures. The Journal of Politics
- Christian James Fong. 2024. Entrenched Leviathans. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 4(4):617-639.
- Christian James Fong, McCrain, Joshua. 2024. A tournament theory of congressional committee leadership. Public Choice 202:193-215.
- Christian James Fong, Justin Grimmer. 2023. American Journal of Political Science. American Journal of Political Science 67(2):374-389.
- Naoki Egami, Christian James Fong, Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart. 2022. How to make causal inferences using texts. Science Advances
- Christian James Fong. 2020. Expertise, Networks, and Interpersonal Influence in Congress. The Journal of Politics
- Christian James Fong, Neil Malhotra, Yotam Margalit. 2019. Political Legacies: Understanding Their Significance to Contemporary Political Debates. PS: Political Science & Politics 52(3):451-456.