Welcome!

Welcome to my website. I am Dr. Dongkyu Kim, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). I study international and comparative political economy with a focus on quantitative analysis. In particular, I study the causes and consequences of economic globalization, focusing on foreign direct investment, social protest, conflict, inequality, political participation, social capital, and social trust. While pursuing my research, I have had the honor of serving as the Executive Chair of the Center for Survey Research & Policy Analysis (CSRPA) at UTRGV, the Interim Chair of the Department of Political Science at UTRGV. If you have any questions, please bring them to dongkyu.kim@utrgv.edu or csr@utrgv.edu. Here is my CV.

My Research

My research interests are in international and comparative political economy. Research topics include foreign direct investment, inter-state conflicts, inequality, participation, social protest, social capital, and inter-organization trust. I also study local public opinion around the Southern border of Texas.

[Journal Articles]

Evelyn Roozee, Dongkyu Kim, Antonia Sohns, Jasper R. de Vries, Owen F. Temby, and Gordon M. Hickey. 2024. "Managing inter-organizational trust and risk perceptions in transboundary fisheries governance networks," Marine Policy.

Mi-son Kim, Dongkyu Kim, and Sang-Jic Lee, 2023, "Economic Inequality and Political Participation in East Asian Democracies: The Role of Perceived Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility," Journal of Asian and African Studies. [Data]

Gordon M. Hickey, Evelyn Roozee, Remko Voogd, Jasper R. de Vries, Antonia Sohns, Dongkyu Kim and Owen Temby, 2023,  "On the architecture of collaboration in inter-organizational natural resource management networks," Journal of Environmental Management.

Altema-McNeely, Natasha, Dongkyu Kim and Mi-son Kim, 2022, "Deportation Threat and Political Engagement among Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley," Ethnic and Racial Studies. 

Kim, Dongkyu, Mi-son Kim, and Sang-Jic Lee, 2021, "Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the U.S. Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus," Political Studies.

Kim, Dongkyu, 2021.  "Teach Me If You Can: Teaching Political Science Majors Statistics at a Hispanic-Serving Institution,"  edited by Daniel Mallinson, Julia Marin Hellwege, Eric Loepp, The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy.

Kim, Dongkyu, Mi-son Kim, and Natasha Altema McNeely. 2021. "Data on Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties," Data in Brief  [DATA]

Song, Andrew M, Owen Temby, Dongkyu Kim, and Gordon M. Hickey. 2020. "Assessing the influence of international environmental treaty secretariats using a relational network approach," Earth System Governance

Mi-son Kim, Dongkyu Kim, and Natasha Altema McNeely. 2020. "Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties," The Social Science Journal. [Data]

Kim, Dongkyu, Mi-son Kim, and Natasha Altema-McNeely. 2020. "A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Policy: Evaluating Perspectives on Border Security and Building a Wall in the Rio Grande Valley, National Hispanic and General U.S. Populations", Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 

Kim, Dongkyu, Mi-son Kim, and Cesar Villegas, 2020. "Organized Labor Strikes and Social Spending in Latin America: The Synchronizing Effect of Mass Protest," Latin American Politics & Society [PDF] & [Response by Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio]

Anthony Lima, Dongkyu Kim, Andrew M. Song, Gordon M. Hickey, Owen Temby, 2019. "Trust and Influence in the Gulf of Mexico’s Fishery Public Management Network," Sustainability 11(21).

Song, Andrew, Owen Temby, Dongkyu Kim, Angel Saavedra Cisneros and Gordon Hickey, 2019. "Measuring, mapping and quantifying the effects of trust and informal communication on transboundary collaboration in the Great Lakes  fisheries policy network," Global Environmental Change

Claypool, Vicki Hesli, Brian Janssen, Dongkyu Kim, and Sara Mitchell, 2017, "Determinants of Salary Dispersion among Political Science Faculty: The Differential Effects of Where You Work (Institutional Characteristics) and What You Do (Negotiate and Publish)," PS: Political Science & Politics, 50 (1): pp. 146-156. [PDF]

Kim, Dongkyu, 2016, "The Effects of Inter-state Conflicts on Foreign Investment in the Developing World: Enduring vs. Ephemeral Risk of Conflicts," International Political Science Review, 37 (4): 422-437.

Frederick Solt, Dongkyu Kim, Kyu Young Lee, Spencer L. Willardson and Seokdong Kim, 2014, "Neoliberal Reform and Protest in Latin American Democracies," Research and Politics, 1, July-September: 1-13.

[Book Review]

Kim, Dongkyu, 2020. "The Countervailing Monetary Power of Emerging Markets in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis," on Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance by Kevin P. Gallagher, International Studies Review. 

[Report]

Lee, Sang-Jic, Mi-son Kim, and Dongkyu Kim, 2022. "Youth perceptions of inequality", Sang-Jic (ed.) Chapter 8 in The Future of Youth in the Age of Transition, National Assembly Futures Institute.

Lee, Sang-Jic, Dongkyu Kim, and Mi-son Kim, 2022. "Happiness among the Youth", Sang-Jic (ed.) Chapter 9 in The Future of Youth in the Age of Transition, National Assembly Futures Institute.