Education

2019 Ph.D. in Political Science, Columbia University
2016 M.Phil. in Political Science, Columbia University
2014 M.A. in Political Science, Columbia University
2012 M.I.A. School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University
2008 B.A. in French Language and Literature / Political Science, Yonsei University

Career

2025.02 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & International Studies, Yonsei University
2024.09 - 2025.02 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University
2020.03 - 2024.08 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University
2019.09 - 2020.07 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine

Publications

[ Peer-Reviewed Articles ]
  • 2025 "Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition." International Interactions [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee]
  • 2024 "What Do Aid Recipients Want? Public Attitudes Toward Foreign Aid in Developing Countries." World Development [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee]
  • 2024 "Beyond Coercion: Weaker States' Domestic Political Motivations for Political Clauses in Preferential Trade Agreements." The World Economy [with Lisa Lechner]
  • 2024 "Why Compete for Firms?: Electoral Effects of Corporate Headquarters Relocation." American Journal of Political Science, 68(2): 339-353
  • 2024 "Information campaigns and public perceptions of structural reforms: Evidence from a survey experiment on gasoline subsidy reform in Nigeria." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(2): 509-529 [With Tom Moerenhout]
  • 2024 "Clearing the Air: Public Health Concerns and Support for Natural Gas Restrictions in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science, 108: 103404 [With Elena McLean and Taehee Whang]
  • 2024 "Political Regime, Institutional Capacity, and Inefficient Policy: Evidence from Gasoline Subsidies." Review of Policy Research [With Richard McAlexander and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2023 "Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from Survey Experiment in East Asia." American Journal of Political Science, 67(4): 898-914 [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee]
  • 2023 "Who Votes for Free Trade and When? Geopolitics as the Sources of Legislative Preferences on Free Trade Agreements." Review of International Political Economy, 30(6), 2257-2284 [With Sung Eun Kim]
  • 2023 "South Korean Newspaper Coverage of Yemeni Refugees: Analysis of Topics and Sentiments using Machine Learning Techniques." Asian Journal of Communication, 34(1): 57-72 [with Jae Young Huh]
  • 2023 "Environmental Perception and Public Attitudes toward Nuclear Energy in South Korea." East and West Studies, 35-1: 201-239 (In Korean) [with Kyuhee Park]
  • 2022 "Identifying coal plants for early retirement in India: A multidimensional analysis of technical, economic, and environmental factors." Applied Energy 312: 118644 [With Nada Maamoun, Puneet Chitkara, Gireesh Shrimali, Joshua Busby, Sarang Shidore
  • 2022 "Gasoline in the Voter's Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations." American Politics Research 50 (3): 312-319 [With Sung Eun Kim]
  • 2022 "Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria." Development Policy Review 40 (6): 1-17 [With Tom Moerenhout]
  • 2021 "Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Retrospective Voting, Natural Disasters, and Electoral Backlash." Comparative Political Studies, 54 (7):1163-1196 [With Brian Blankenship, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2021 "Thermoelectric Power Generation and Water Stress in India: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis." Environmental Science & Technology, 55 (8): 4314-4323 [With Chao Zhang, Johannes Urpelainen, Puneet Chitkara, Jiayi Zhang, and Jiao Wang]
  • 2021 "Building Social Contracts: The Determinants of Tax Morale in Nigeria." Journal of Development Studies, 57-2: 226-243 [With Neil McCulloch and Tom Moerenhout]
  • 2021 "Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Social Contract in Nigeria: a Micro-economic Analysis." Energy Policy, Volume 156: 112336 [With Neil McCulloch and Tom Moerenhout]
  • 2021 "State Policy and Lobbying in a Federal System: Evidence from the Production Tax Credit for Renewable Energy, 1998-2012." Vol. 21 (1): 1-30 State Politics and Policy Quarterly [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2020 "The Need for Impact Evaluation in Electricity Access Research." Energy Policy 137, 2020, 111099 [With Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2019 "The Future of India's Coal-Fired Power Generation Capacity." Journal of Cleaner Production. 226: 904-912 [With Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2019 "Global Patterns of Power Sector Reform, 1982-2013." Energy Strategy Reviews. 23: 152-162 [With Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2019 "Is Coal-Fired Power Generation Associated with Rural Electrification? A Global Analysis." Energy Research & Social Science 58, 2019, 101274 [With Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2019 "Shades of Darkness or Light? A Systematic Review of Geographic Bias in Impact Evaluations of Electricity Access." Energy Research & Social Science 58, 2019, 101236 [With Patrick Bayer, David Hamburger, Joel Jaeger, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes
  • 2019 "Environmental Effects of GATT/WTO Membership: An Empirical Evaluation." International Interactions 45: 917-932 [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2018 "Power Sector Reforms and Technical Performance: Good News from an Instrumental Variable Analysis." Review of Policy Research. 35 (1): 120-152 [With Johannes Urpelainen and Di Liu]
  • 2017 "Policy Reform and the Problem of Private Investment: Evidence from the Power Sector." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 36 (1): 38-64 [With Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2016 "Electric Utilities and American Climate Policy: Lobbying by Expected Winners and Losers." Journal of Public Policy. 36 (2): 251-275 [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2016 "Does Power Sector Deregulation Promote or Discourage Renewable Energy Policy? Evidence from the States, 1991-2012." Review of Policy Research. 33 (1): 22-50 [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2015 "Light for All? Evaluating Brazil's Rural Electrification Progress, 2000-2010." Energy Policy. 86: 315-327 [With Tara Slough and Johannes Urpelainen]
  • 2015 "Public Support For Foreign Aid in Recipient Countries: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Global South." (R&R) [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee]
  • 2015 "Rising Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Can Turn Asia Against America." (R&R) [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee]
  • 2015 "Belligerence Benefits: Public Opinion and Audience Costs in Trade Wars" [with Ashton Cho]
  • 2015 "Public Perceptions of Civil Participation in the Policymaking Process: Evidence from Survey Experiment in South Korea." [With Wonbin Cho, Namkyu Kim, and Yoonmin Nam]
  • 2015 "Effect of International Organizations' Direct Engagement with the Public: Information Source Effect, IO Legitimacy, and Public Opinion" [With Byungwon Woo and Nam Kyu Kim]
  • 2015 "Public Support for Environmental Aid: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in India." [With Elena McLean and Taehee Whang]
[ Book ]
  • 2021 『한국 소프트파워 전략 수립: 공공외교 및 대외원조에 대한 대중인식 조사실험 증거』(국문), 경제·인문사회연구회, 세종, 대한민국 [공저: 김성은, 박종희, 이인복, 양준석 외]

Teaching Courses

[ At Yonsei University ]
  • Money, Business, and Politics is a Globalized World (U)
  • Business and Politics (G)
[ At Sungkyunkwan University ]
  • Political Economy of Trade and Investment (G)
  • Methods in Political Science Research (U, G)
  • Experimental Methods and Causal Inference in Political Science (G)
  • Domestic Politics and International Politics Seminar (G)
  • International Political Economy (U, G)
  • Environmental Politics (U, G)