Jordan Duffin Wong

Jordan Duffin Wong

a poet posing as a political scientist

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Municipal Disincorporation and the Voluntary Termination of Local Government

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When do citizens decide they no longer want local government? The United States phenomenon of municipal disincorporation, wherein citizens voluntarily vote their local governments out of existence, offers a unique chance to think about what citizens expect from their governments and what happens when expectations are not met. Using an original, comprehensive dataset of disincorporation activity in the United States, I show that smaller, economically-worse-off places are significantly more likely to initiate a disincorporation vote, and that population density informs outcomes more than population outright. Furthermore, my findings suggest that policy environments where voters have lower costs and greater access to information greatly inform these outcomes. These results are meaningful because they evaluate political behavior concerning local government in extreme circumstances, rather than merely political attitudes.

Recommended citation: Duffin Wong, Jordan. (2023). "Municipal Disincorporation and the Voluntary Termination of Local Government".

Electoral Accountability and Bureaucreatic Discretion: Evidence from County Coroners and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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More than one million Americans are reported to have died from COVID-19. However, many measures of COVID-19 deaths rely on data created and reported by public health professionals, such as county coroners or medical examiners. Because many of these positions are elected, and COVID-19 quickly became a politically salient and polarized issue in the 2020 general election and beyond, some public health officials may have under-reported COVID-19 deaths. We compare data on reported COVID-19 deaths with estimates of surplus deaths to create county-level estimates of under- or over-reported COVID-19 deaths and then explore the relationship between under-reporting, local-level partisanship, and the selection method of the local coroner or medical examiner, finding that elected coroners in Republican-leaning constituencies under-reported deaths, but appointed medical examiners did not. Our results have important implications for understanding the relationship between public health and partisan politics.

Recommended citation: Duffin Wong, Jordan, Olson, Michael P., and Reeves, Andrew. (2024). "Electoral Accountability and Bureaucreatic Discretion: Evidence from County Coroners and the COVID-19 Pandemics".

The Constellation of American Voters: Partisan Sorting Near American Cities

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More than 130 million Americans live in unincorporated areas, or spaces outside the boundaries of cities, towns, and villages. Furthermore, unincorporated residents are more likely to be Republican. However, we have little understanding of why: what features of local government pull or push people to live in or out of cities? Analyzing the near-universe of registered Democrats and Republicans in the United States, I trace the most detailed picture to date of partisan sorting behavior in and out of incorporated places, finding that unincorporated Americans are 14 percent more Republican than their municipality-dwelling counterparts. This gap does not meaningfully disappear when accounting for geographic scope or plausible confounders. My findings have significant implications for local politics research because they reveal a new and important cleavage in political geography.

Recommended citation: Duffin Wong, Jordan. (2025). "The Constellation of American Voters: Partisan Sorting Near American Cities".

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teaching

Math 106: Calculus I (2018)

Undergraduate Course, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Department of Mathematics, 2018

Undergraduate Learning Assistant for Math 106: Calculus I at the Unviersity of Nebraska - Lincoln. Syllabus

Political Science 581: Quantitative Political Methodology I (2023)

Graduate Course, Washington University in St. Louis Department of Political Science, 2023

I was the Assistant in Instruction for a graduate linear models course, which involved making (and updating) lab materials. Most of these are adapted from materials made by Dahjin Kim, Ben Noble, and Cecilia Sui. You can read the syllabus here.