Jingjing Huo

Associate Professor
Jingjing Huo.

Contact information

Email: jjhuo@uwaterloo.ca

Areas of specialization

  • Political economy

BA (Xian Foreign Languages University); MA (Ohio University); PhD (University of North Carolina) 

Dr. Huo’s main research interests are income inequality, technological innovation, taxation policy, welfare policy, and the political economy of advanced industrialized nations more broadly.  

Selected Publications

  • Huo, Jingjing. 2026. “Falling Rates, Rising Partisanship Effect: Why Market Competition Becomes Associated with Left Governments in an Era of Low Interest Rates. European Journal of Political Research. Replication data can be found here: /political-science/media/942

  • Huo, Jingjing. 2025. “Still Tilting the Balance: Wealth and Household Taxation by Social Democratic Governments.” Canadian Journal of Political Science

  • Huo, Jingjing. 2025. “Why Right-Wing Governments Restrict Market Competition: a Demographic Theory.” Socio-Economic Review.

  • Huo, Jingjing. 2024. “Left Partisanship, Corporatism, and the Reorientation of the Knowledge Economy in Advanced Capitalist Societies.” Social Forces, 103(1), pp. 1-21.

  • Huo, Jingjing. 2021. “Social Democracy and the Relative Price of Investment: Left Governments, Indirect Taxation, and the Division of Corporate Income in Affluent Democracies.” Socio-Economic Review 19(3): pp. 953-74.

  •  Huo, Jingjing. 2019. “Left Partisanship and Top Management Pay in Affluent Capitalist Democracies.” Social Forces, 98(1), pp. 93-117.

  • Huber, Evelyne, Huo, Jingjing, ad John D. Stephens. 2019. “Power, Policy, and Top Income Shares.” Socio-Economic Review, 17(2), pp. 231-53.

  • Huo, Jingjing. How Nations Innovate: The Political Economy of Technological Innovation in Affluent Capitalist Democracies. Oxford University Press.

  • Huo, Jingjing. Third Way Reforms: Social Democracy after the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press.

Courses taught

  • PSCI 100
  • PSCI 244
  • PSCI 255
  • PSCI 656
  • PSCI 600