Research
My research appears in Political Science Research and Methods, Social Science Quarterly, and Journal of East Asian Studies, with several projects under review. I focus on populism, political behavior, and text analysis, using LLM.
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2025.* "The Non-Linearity Between Populist Attitudes and Ideological Extremism," Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming (with Eduardo Ryô Tamaki)
2025. "The Sectarian Divide: The Dynamics of Populism in South Korea,” Journal of East Asian Studies. doi:10.1017/jea.2025.13
2025. "Navigating Populism in America: Unveiling the Socio-Economic and Ideological Roots of Populist Attitudes," Social Science Quarterly 106 (2). doi: 10.1111/ssqu.13488
2024. "Cyber Shadows over Nuclear Peace: Understanding and Mitigating Digital Threats to Global Security." Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 11(2), 233-533. doi: 10.1177/23477970241250102
2024. "Lighthouse in the Mist: State Governors’ Crisis Communication on Twitter during the Early Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic." International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age, 11(1), 1-34. doi: 10.4018/IJPADA.344420 (with Hanjin Mao & Meril Antony)
2025. “Candidates, Media Effects, and Gender,” The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. forthcoming.
Under Review
Revise & Resubmit (R&R)
"Populism, Ideology, and the Endorsement of Martial Law: A Conditional Relationship"* (with Brandon Beomseob Park)
"Does Immigration Fuel Populism? The Effect of Immigration on the Rise of Populist Rhetoric"* (with Jeongho Choi)
Under Review
"Reassessing the Cultural Foundation of Democracy after the Third-wave Democratization”* (with Youngho Cho & Hannah June Kim)
Invited Publications
"Democracy for True Americans: Variations in Citizenship Norms and Democratic Norm Support”* (with Seongjoon Ahn)
Accepted for inclusion in the Political Psychology Special Issue “Re-examining Norms of Good Citizenship When Democratic Values are Under Threat.” Full manuscript invited.
Work in Progress
Large Language Model and Populism with Eduardo Ryô Tamaki, Julia Chatterley, Semir Dzebo, Levente Littvay, Grant Mitchell, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, and Kirk A. Hawkins. (📢 invited to present at APSA 2025 & PaCSS 2025)
This study examines how large language models (LLMs) can be effectively utilized to detect populist rhetoric.
Understanding Public Polarization in Response to Illiberal Decisions: A Large Language Model Approach with Sung Hoon Kang
This project examines the levels of polarization among Korean citizens before and after political events.
Exploring the Most Important Problem Through AI-Driven Analysis with Murat Yildirim & Brandon Beomseob Park
This project leverages large language models to enrich the exploration of citizens’ responses to Most Important Problem (MIP) survey questions.
Populism and Support for Democracy: Divergent Beliefs of Populist Supporters with Jeongho Choi
This study explores the influence of authoritarian attitudes on the support for populism, considering the relationship with satisfaction with democracy.
AI-Based Multidimensional Analysis of Inheritance and Gift Tax Policy Acceptance with Sung Hoon Kang (📢 secured a 2025 Research Grant from the Korea Institute of Public Finance)
This study utilizes large language models to analyze policy acceptance by leveraging open-ended questions in the original dataset.
What Happens When Asian American Candidates Use Race Appeals? with Taewoo Kang (📢 presented at IPSA 2025)
Using survey experiments, this research examines the political behaviors of Asian-American individuals.
Using Mixed Subjects Design to Replicate Underpowered Political Science Studies with Dowon Kim
This study employs the Mixed Subjects Design to strengthen inference in underpowered political science studies.
Measuring Extreme Right Wing with Brandon Beomseob Park
This study explores the dynamics of extreme right-wing ideology, focusing on South Korea.
Democratic Norm Violation in New Democracies: Political Punitivism with Youngho Cho
Focusing on South Korea, this research investigates the impact of norm violations on the quality of democracy.
- Are Military Leaders More Populist? with William Christiansen
- This paper analyzes military background scores from the LEAD dataset using Bayesian Mixed Factor Analysis.
If one side is populist, what is the other? with Benjamin Schvarcz
This study investigates how to understand opposing camps in political systems where one side is identified as populist.
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