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📘 Invited to Political Psychology Special Issue!
I am excited to share that my co-authored paper, “Democracy for True Americans: Variations in Citizenship Norms and Democratic Norm Support,” has been accepted for inclusion in the upcoming Political Psychology Special Issue, “Re-examining Norms of Good Citizenship When Democratic Values are Under Threat.” We are preparing the invited full manuscript, with submission due in December 2025.
Uploaded: 8/26/2025
🏄 My summer 2025
💻 June
MIP AI Project Launched 🚀
Project launched in mid-June
Held four research meetings through early August
Developed plans for two follow-up projects
Populism LLM Project Progress 🏃
Began initial data analysis and model testing with various prompts and LLMs in early June
Continued experimentation and refinement throughout the summer
Extreme Right-Wing Panel Project Meeting🧑🤝🧑
First in-person research team meeting held in early June
Preliminary discussions on expanding the panel survey
Populist Party Support and Democracy Project Test🧑💻
Conducted longitudinal analysis by adding multiple waves of data in mid-June
Illiberalism and LLMs Project Human Coder Training & Coding🧑🏫
Human coder training completed with collaborator in early June
Began generating annotated data with human coders
Started running LLMs using local GPU infrastructure
Original Survey with Open-Ended Questions Launched 📜
Presented the project at an internal institute seminar in mid-June
Finalized questionnaire design in early August, survey to be fielded soon
💻July
Government and Opposition R&R Received & Submission🥳
R&R received in early July
Paper presented at the Korean Political Parties Association Summer Conference
Revised version submitted at the end of July
Presented at Dankook University Political Science Department in early August
Political Science Quarterly R&R Submission ☑️
Revised manuscript submitted in mid-July
Political Psychology Special Issue Submission ☑️
Submitted abstract for coauthored project in mid-July
Asian American Candidate Experiment Paper Presented💬
Presented at the 28th IPSA World Congress (July 12–16, 2025)
Political Revenge Project Presented 💬
Coauthor presented the paper at Sogang University in late July
Received feedback; revision and submission planned for the second half of 2025
💻 August
PSRM Article Full Acceptance 💯
Submitted additional replication materials
Received full acceptance and article marked as forthcoming in mid-August
Extreme Right-Wing Panel Project Meeting (TBD)🧑🤝🧑
Next team meeting scheduled for mid-August
Original Survey with Open-Ended Questions Running (TBD)📜
Final questionnaire completed in early August
Fieldwork launch planned imminently
📃 Another R&R from Q1 Journal!
Our co-authored paper on martial law and public opinion has received a Revise and Resubmit decision. This marks my fifth R&R over the past year since summer 2024.
Uploaded: 6/30/25
🔬 Our Paper on Public Polarization and LLMs Accepted to PolNet-PaCSS 2025 at Harvard
My co-authored paper, "Understanding Public Polarization in Response to Illiberal Decisions: A Large Language Model Approach", has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference (PolNet-PaCSS), to be held at Harvard University on August 13–14.
Uploaded: 6/12/2025
💌 Conditional Acceptance at PSRM!
I am pleased to share that our manuscript, "The Non-linearity of Populist Attitudes and Political Ideology," has received a conditional acceptance from Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM), pending successful replication of empirical results.
Uploaded: 5/6/2025
🎉 My Second Publication of the Year (2025)!
My article, “The Sectarian Divide: The Dynamics of Populism in South Korea,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of East Asian Studies. This study investigates how mainstream political parties in South Korea have increasingly employed sectarian populist rhetoric—especially during elections and periods in opposition—drawing on a decade-long analysis of party statements (2012–2022) using large language models (LLMs). I am honored to contribute to the growing scholarship on populism and democratic stability in third-wave democracies.
Uploaded: 04/13/2025
🌟 Summer Research Grant Awarded!
I'm honored to share that I have been awarded a Summer Research Grant from Mount St. Mary’s University to support my ongoing project on AI-driven populism classification. The grant will fund access to large language models (LLMs), research assistants for code validation, software tools, and participation in a professional conference. This support will help advance my work toward publication on how artificial intelligence can be leverageda to systematically classify and analyze global populist rhetoric.
Uploaded: 04/12/2025
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