Selected Publications
2025. “Labor Market Outsiders, the Self-Employed, and Partisan Politics: Evidence from South Korea.” with Jung Wook Son and Jong Hee Park, Asian Survey, forthcoming.
2024. “Globalization, Automation, and the Welfare State: Evidence from the OECD and South Korea.” with Seobin Han, Political Studies, Online first view.
2024. “Trust, Institutional Quality, and the Protection of Property Rights: A Cross-Regional Analysis of East Asia and Western Countries.” with Kee Hoon Chung, Social Science Quarterly 105(2): 267-280.
2024. “Job Insecurity, Economic Resources, and Democratic Backsliding: Evidence from South Korea.” with Jun Hui Eom, Democratization 31(6): 1140-1159.
2024. “Home Ownership, House Prices, and Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from South Korea and 34 Countries.” with Seungwoo Han, Political Studies 72(3): 1071-1089.
2023. “Inequality, Social Context, and Income Bias in Voting: Evidence from South Korea.” with Seungwoo Han, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 35(2): 1-12.
2021. “Trust and the Protection of Property Rights: Evidence from Global Regions.” with Kee Hoon Chung, Public Choice 189(3): 493-513.
2021. “Union Structure, Bounded Solidarity and Support for Redistribution: Implications for Building a Welfare State.” with Jae-jin Yang, International Political Science Review. 42(2): 277-293.
2020. “Unemployment and Social Policy: Preferences over Investment vis-a-vis Consumption.” with Seobin Han, Policy & Society 39(2): 247-265.
2020. “Social Investment in the Knowledge-Based Economy: New Politics and Policies.” with Young Jun Choi, Evelyne Huber, Wonsub Kim, and Shih-Jiunn Shi, Policy & Society 39(2): 147-170.
2019. “Government Partisanship and Electoral Accountability: The Effect of Perceived Employment Situation on Partisan Vote Switching.’‘ Political Research Quarterly 72(3): 727-743.
2019. “A New Logit-based Gini Coefficient.” with Hang Keun Ryu and Dan Slottje. Entropy 21(5): 488
2017. “A Utilitarian Perspective on Rawls’s Difference Principle.” with Hang Keun Ryu and Dan Slottje, Journal of Management Information and Decision Science 20(1).
2016. “The Trust-eroding Effect of Perceived Inequality: Evidence from East Asian New Democracies.” with Eunju Chi, The Social Science Journal 53(3): 318-328.
2012. “Unequal New Democracies in East Asia: Rising Inequality and Government Responses in South Korea and Taiwan,” with Eunju Chi, Asian Survey 52(5): 900-923.
2011. “Globalization, Cultural Openness and Public Preferences for East Asian Economic Integration in South Korea.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 23(1): 2-23.
2010. “Unemployment, Partisan Issue Ownership and Vote Switching: Evidence from South Korea.” Party Politics 16(4): 497-521.
2010. “Economic Perceptions and Electoral Choice in South Korea: The Case of the 2007 Presidential Election.” The Pacific Review 23(2): 183-201.
2010. “Globalization, Labour Power and Partisan Politics Revisited,” with Jonas Pontusson, Socio-Economic Review 8(2): 251-281.
2008. “A Dynamic Analysis of Partisan Voting: The Issue Salience Effect of Unemployment in South Korea.” Electoral Studies 27(3): 518-532.
2005. “Targeting Public Spending in a New Democracy: Evidence from South Korea.” British Journal of Political Science 35(2): 321-341.
2004. “Economic Reform and Democratization: Evidence from Latin America and Post-Socialist Countries.” British Journal of Political Science 34(2): 357-368.
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