Professor Fiona Yap’s main research interests are in policy and political economy in East and Southeast Asia, where she focuses on modeling and testing how key players, such as government and citizens, work strategically with one another to achieve large-scale policy success or political outcomes such as growth and development.

Her research work is available through journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies,Government and Opposition, Asian Survey, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Korea Observer, and Australian Journal of Political Science, as well as chapter contributions in edited volumes.

She is co-editor of the internationally ranked European Journal of Development Research, co-editor of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, managing editor of the Presidential-powers.net Academic blog, and serves as Advisory Board member of the internationally funded Korea Institute at The Australian National University

Professor Yap is also an editorial board member of the Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Survey, Korea Observer and 21st Century Political Science Review, served as editor of Annual Editions: Comparative Politics for McGraw-Hill and is a reviewer for numerous journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Journal of Public Policy,Policy and Politics,Political Research Quarterly,International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Perspective, Governance, Asian Survey, Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Prior to joining ANU, she was a tenured-faculty at the University of Kansas, US.

COVID-19 expertise

Professor Yap is lead editor on a Special Issue, The Development Impacts of COVID-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action, for the European Journal of Development Research (https://link-springer-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/journal/41287/volumes-and-i..., issue available on open access for limited time). She has contributed articles and blogposts on how to hold elections during the COVID-19 pandemic, labour market dualism following economic crises, and developing social programs and protection for East and Southeast Asia for growth and development after economic dislocation. She has also extensively researched on how to build political trust following dislocation.