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Christian Fong

Incoming Associate Professor, School of Government and Policy

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

  • Hopkins Bloomberg Center
    555 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    Washington, DC
  • Faculty
  • Ph.D. Business , Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • B.S. Engineering , Princeton University

Christian Fong is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Government Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Effective Lawmaking.

Fong specializes in the study of the United States Congress, and is especially interested in the tools members of Congress have to promote compromise. Fong’s work combines perspectives from political science, evolutionary psychology, and labor economics.

In 2025, Fong received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s Legislative Studies Section. Fong holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University, a PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, where he was an economic policy advisor to Senator Mike Lee.

  1. Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.

    05.18.2026

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  2. Cover Bills

    Cover Bills

    Cover bills reduce the punishment associated with compromising even if respondents find out about the cover bill from legislators who opposed the compromise.

    01.01.2026

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  3. Expertise acquisition in Congress

    Expertise acquisition in Congress

    Oversight expertise is generally not sufficiently valuable outside of Congress to entice many staffers to acquire it without subsidies.

    03.26.2024

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  1. In Elections, Timing is Everything

    In Elections, Timing is Everything

    11.25.2025

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