Jongho Park is a research professor at the Center for International Area Studies (CIAS), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University (SUNY), specializing in comparative politics. Park’s research encompasses the issues of public choice, specifically federalism and party system. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Japanese Journal of Political Science. Before entering academia, he served as a data journalist at Le Monde, and he now teaches applied public choice and federalism.