Research

Published or Forthcoming Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

23. “Do Voters Hold the President’s Party Accountable for Local Economic Conditions?” 2026, Electoral Studies, vol. 100. Link

22. “The Effect of Incumbency in a Mixed-Member Electoral System,” 2025, Electoral Studies, vol. 98. Link

21. “Inequality, Local Wealth, and Electoral Politics,” (with Woo Chang Kang), 2025, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 80. Link

20. “Making Sense of Heuristic Choice in Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence from South Korea,” (with Woo Chang Kang), 2024, Political Behavior, vol. 46, pp. 1865–1886. Link

19. “The Effect of Housing Price Inequality on Mental Health,” (with Songman Kang and Hyelim Son) 2023, Labour Economics, vol. 85. Link

18. “Media, Secret Ballot, and Democratization in the US,” (with Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Felipe Riaño) 2023, Journal of Historical Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 391–425. Link

17. “Misleading Ballot Positions and Invalid Votes,” (with Ha Na Lee) 2023, Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 347–355. Link

16. “Television and Economic Voting in US Presidential Elections,” 2022, British Journal of Political Science, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1622–1634. Link

15. “The Rank Effect in Multimember District Elections,” 2022, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 547–575. Link

14. “Did Secure Communities Lead to Safer Communities? Immigration Enforcement, Crime Deterrence, and Geographical Externalities,” (with Songman Kang) 2022, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 345–385. Link

13. “The Longer-Term Electoral Effect of Carrying a State in U.S. Presidential Elections,” 2022, Economics Letters, vol. 216. Link

12. “The Effect of Public Financing on Candidate Reemergence and Success in Elections,” 2021, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 65. Link

11. “Envy and Pride: How Economic Inequality Deepens Happiness Inequality in South Korea,” (with Woo Chang Kang and Jae Seung Lee), 2021, Social Indicators Research, vol. 150, pp. 617–637. Link

10. “The Cost of Presidential Impeachment to Politically Connected Firms,” (with Ha Na Lee) 2020, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 109–121. Link

9. “Did Television Reduce the Effect of Partisan Press on Electoral Politics?” American Politics Research, 2020, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 78–98. Link

8. “Mind the Electoral Gap: The Effect of Investment in Public Infrastructure on Authoritarian Support in South Korea,” (with Joan E. Cho and Jae Seung Lee), Studies in Comparative International Development, 2019, vol. 54, issue 4, pp. 473–500. Link

7. “Misleading Ballot Position Cue,” Electoral Studies, 2019, vol. 58, pp. 1–11. Link

6. “Estimating Incumbency Effect Using Regression Discontinuity Design,” Research & Politics, 2018, vol. 5, issue 4. Link

5. “The Effect of Incumbency in National and Local Elections: Evidence from South Korea,” (with Woo Chang Kang and Won-ho Park) Electoral Studies, 2018, vol. 56, pp. 47–60. Link

4. “Media Control and Authoritarian Consolidation: Evidence from South Korea,” (with Joan E. Cho and Jae Seung Lee) Journal of East Asian Studies, 2017, vol. 17, pp. 145–166. Link

3. “Media Markets and Politicians Involved in Scandals,” Social Science Journal, 2016, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 389–397. Link

2. “Newspaper Market Structure and Behavior: Partisan Coverage of Political Scandals in the U.S. from 1870 to 1910,” (with Ángela Fonseca Galvis and James Snyder), Journal of Politics, 2016, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 368–381. Link

1. “Does President’s Popularity Matter in Korea’s Local Election?”, Pacific Affairs, 2009, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 189–209. Link

Published or Forthcoming Articles in Korean

8. “Measuring Partisan Differences in South Korean National Assembly Speeches Using Natural Language Processing,” (with Sehoon Park), 2025, Korean Party Studies Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 153–185.

7. “Distortion of Votes by Ballot Ordering: A Simulation Analysis of Superintendent of Education Elections,” (with Ha Na Lee), 2024, The Study of Election, vol. 1, no. 21, pp. 5–30.

6. “Using Statistical Methods to Detect Election Fraud in South Korea’s Elections,” 2022, Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 31, no. 3.

5. “The Effects of Pre-Contact and Prepaid Cash Incentives on the Quality of Telephone Surveys.” (with Won-ho Park and Shang E. Ha), 2020, Survey Research, vol. 21, no. 4.

4. “Estimation of Partisan Bias in Media Coverage of Polling Results during the 2017 Presidential Election,” 2019, Korean Party Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 69–94.

3. “The Effect of Candidates’ Criminal and Tax Records on Election Outcomes: Evidence from the 2018 South Korean Local Elections,” (with Jisung Yoon) 2019, Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 189–215.

2. “Assessing Partisan Gerrymandering in the 2016 Korean National Assembly Election Using Computer Simulations,” 2018, Korean Party Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 43–68.

1. “The Effect of Candidates’ Criminal Records on Election Results: Evidence from the 19th and 20th Korean National Assembly Elections,” (with Jisung Yoon), 2016, Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 85–107.