research themes
Theme I: Keeping up with Joneses: Relative Policy Performance and Political Support
How does relative policy performance affect political support for political elites and institutions?
Related papers:
"Does globalization reduce democratic accountability? It depends!" European Political Science Review, forthcoming
"How does a Relative Economy affect Voter Turnout?" Political Behavior, forthcoming
"Benchmarking the Pandemic: How do citizens react to domestic COVID-19 conditions compared to other countries" Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, forthcoming (with Jungsub Shin)
"Compared to What? Media-guided Reference Points & Relative Economic Voting” Electoral Studies, 2019 62(102085)
"Anxiety vs. Performance: What drives political attitudes under the Pandemic?"(with Jungsub Shin) (in progress)
Theme II: Economics and Politics
Revisiting the Vote-Popularity Function
Related papers:
"Economics, Politics, and Popularity Function: Past, Present and Future", Economics and Politics Revisited: Executive Approval and the New Calculus of Support, Eds. Timothy Hellwig and Matthew M Singer, Oxford University Press. forthcoming (with Mary Stegmaier and Michael Lewis-Beck)
"Who is Responsible? The Effect of Clarity of Responsibility on the Voter Turnout?” West European Politics, 2019, 42(3): 464-494. (with Nikolaos Frantzeskakis and Jungsub Shin)
"Do the Welfare Benefits Weaken the Economic Vote? A Cross-National Analysis of the Welfare State and Economic Voting” International Political Science Review, 2019, 40(1): 108-125. (with Jungsub Shin)
"The VP-Function: A Review”, The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, 2v. Eds. Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. Sage Publications. 2017, (with Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier)
"The Economy as the Most Important Problem: How does economic issue salience affect the economic voting?" (with Jaehyun Song) (in progress)
"Relative Economy and Executive Approval Rate: A macro and micro-level analysis" (collecting data)
"Interest Groups and Economic Voting in the U.S. Gubernatorial Elections" (with Gidong Kim) (in progress)
Theme III: Quality of Election & Democratization
Do elections promote democratic consolidation?
Related papers:
"Armed and Dangerous: Legacies of Incumbent-Military Ties and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, "Electoral Studies, 2022, (with Nikolaos Frantzeskakis)
"How do Sanctions Affect Incumbent Electoral Performance?” Political Research Quarterly, 2019, 72(3): 744-759.
"When do Agents Deliver the Vote? Vote-Popularity function in electoral manipulations"(under review)
"Oil and Electoral Consequences in Electoral Authoritarian Regime" (invited for an R&R)
"A Domestic Political Consequence of Foreign Policy Crisis: Economic sanction and domestic violence during elections"