Nam Kyu Kim

Published Articles

30.  Nationalist Political Elites and Territorial Disputes: A Cross-National Investigation (with Jaebeom Kwon) 

• Nations and Nationalism, 2025 (manuscript)

29. What makes voters willing to tolerate undemocratic behaviors?: Survey experiment from South Korea (with Seungho Song)

• Democratization, 2025 (manuscript)

28. Does War Improve Women’s Political Representation?

• Research & Politics 2024. (manuscript)

27. Regime Legitimation Strategies and Competition Laws in Autocracies

• World Development, 2023. (manuscript)

26. An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes (with Mihwa Hong) 

• International Studies Quarterly, 2022. (manuscript)

25.  When does Women's Political Power Matter? Women's Representation and Legal Gender Equality of Economic Opportunity across Contexts

• European Political Science Review, 2022. (manuscript)

24.  A Janus-Faced Security Landscape: An Analysis of the East Asian Security Environment (with Jaebeom Kwon) 

• Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2022.  (manuscript)

23. External Threat Environments and Individual Bias against Female Leaders (with Alice Kang)

• Political Science Research and Methods, 2022. (manuscript)

22. Foreign Direct Investment and Democratic Survival: a Sectoral Approach

• • Democratization, 2022. (manuscript)

21. Genocide, Politicide, and the Prospects of Democratization since 1900 (with Gary Uzonyi, Nakissa Jahanbani, and Victor Asal)

• Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2021. (manuscript)

20. Political institutions and coups in dictatorships (with Jun Koga Sudduth)

• Comparative Political Studies, 2021. (manuscript)

19. Previous Military Rule and Democratic Survival

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2021. (manuscript)

18. Reassessing the Relationship between Elections and Democratization

• • International Political Science Review, 2020  (manuscript)

17. Territorial Disputes and Individual Willingness to Fight

• • Journal of Peace Research, 2020 (manuscript).

16. Government Mass Killing and Post-Conflict Domestic Trials (with Gary Uzonyi) 

• • Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020 (manuscript)

15. Territorial Threat and Women’s Legislative Representation (with Alice Kang)

• • Democratization, 2020 (manuscript).

14. External Territorial Threats and Military Regimes. 

• • Political Research Quarterly, 2019 (manuscript).

13. Conquering and Coercing: Nonviolent Anti-Regime Protests and the Pathways to Democracy  (with Alex Kroeger)

• • Journal of Peace Research, 2019 (manuscript and supporting information).

12. How Do External Territorial Threats Affect Mass Killing (with Mi Hwa Hong)

• • Journal of Peace Research, 2019 (manuscript and supporting information).

11. Politics of Pursuing Justice in the Aftermath of Civil Conflict (with Mi Hwa Hong) 

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019 (manuscript and replication data).

10. Transparency and Currency Crises

• • Economics and Politics, 2018. (manuscript and supporting information)

9. International Conflict, International Security Environment and Military Coups. 

• • International Interactions, 2018. (manuscript and replication data)

8. Are Military Regimes Really  Belligerent?  

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2018. (manuscript, supporting information and replication data)

7. Revolutionary Leaders and Mass Killing. 

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2018. (manuscript, supporting information and replication data)

6. Regime and Leader Instability under Two Forms of Military Rule  (with Alex Kroeger) 

• • Comparative Political Studies, 2018. (manuscript, supporting information, and replication data)

5. Do Multiparty Elections Improve Human Development in Autocracies? (with Alex Kroeger). 

• • Democratization, 2018. (manuscript, supporting information)

4. Rewarding the Introduction of Multiparty Elections (with Alex Kroeger).

• • European Journal of Political Economy, 2017. (manuscript, supporting information)

3. Anti-regime Uprisings and the Emergence of Electoral Authoritarianism.

• • Political Research Quarterly, 2017. (manuscript, supporting information)

2. Revisiting Economic Shocks and Coups.

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2016. (manuscript, supporting information and replication data). Featured in The Monkey Cage Blog at  The Washington Post.

1. Testing the Liberal Peace: the Opportunity cost vs. Signaling arguments. 

• • Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2014. (manuscript, supporting information and replication data)

Published Articles (in Korean)

1. Political and Economic Discontent and Populist Attitudes in South Korea (with Seungho Song)

• • Korean Political Science Review, 2023.

Book Chapters

4. Coup d’état and Coup Avoidance 

• In Research Handbook on Civil–Military Relations, edited by Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, and David Pion-Berlin. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024.

3. Women’s Descriptive and Substantive Representation in East and Southeast Asia

• • In New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia, edited by Kuyoun Chung and Wonbin Cho. Routledge, 2022.

2. Territorial Threats and Military Dictatorships. 

• In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics , edited by William R. Thompson and Hicham Bou Nassif. Oxford University Press.  2022.

1. Illiberal Features of Military Regimes

• • In New Democracy a In Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, edited by András Sajó, Renáta Uitz, and Stephen Holmes. Routledge, 2021.

Teaching

Korea University (2020- )

    Authoritarian Politics (U/G)

    Introduction to Game theory (U)

    Quantitative analysis of political science (G)

Sungkyunkwan University (2017-2019)

    International Political Economy (U/G)

    Domestic politics and International Relations (U/G)

    Introduction to Game Theory (U)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2012-2017)

    International Political Economy (U)

    International Relations (U)

    Introduction to Game theory (U/G)

    Comparative Core Seminar (G) 

    Authoritarian Politics (G)

    Quantitative Approach to Political Violence (G)

University of Michigan (2012)

    Introduction to World Politics (U)