Assistant Professor at Myongji University. I study Comparative authoritarian politics.
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New in Asian Survey, with Hyeonjun Kim, Se Hyeon Sim, and Young Hoon Song 📄
Seeing but Not Changing
Reinforcement of Negative Attitudes toward Refugees in South Korea
Why do negative views of refugees persist in South Korea when so few people ever meet one? 🧵
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Awareness campaigns alone are unlikely to reduce hostility when exclusionary frames dominate public discourse. Sustained engagement that challenges ethnic boundaries may work better, as may messages about civic values, shared institutions, and refugees' contributions.
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Free access for a limited time 👇
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DOI
doi.org/10.1525/as.2026.3172…
Comments welcome!
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The Journal of Political Science Education just retracted an article over references that could not be located and other citation errors.
doi.org/10.1080/15512169.202…
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@GerryMunck'srecent tweet proposes that my new book, Qualitative Causal Inference and Explanation, makes an important contribution. This brief thread introduces the argument and its potential importance. 1/7
8/ These patterns are not artifacts of economic or relational ties. Results hold with alternative economic measures, and sensitive+specific recommendations remain less likely to be accepted regardless of who sends them. Resistance is rooted in regime security.
4/ We argue these regimes engage to manage stigma and manufacture an image of compliance while protecting the political structures that keep rulers in power. Participation is less about reform and more about securing minimal legitimacy and a facade of responsiveness.
6/ Acceptance is highest when recommendations are neither sensitive nor specific, lower when they are either, and lowest when they are both. Pariah autocracies do not resist uniformly. They calibrate.
5/ We analyze 1,788 UPR recommendations (2008-2019) along two dimensions. Sensitivity: does it touch regime survival (physical integrity, civil liberties, external monitors)? Specificity: does it demand concrete, verifiable action that exposes deficiencies?
3/ In Nov 2024, over 90 states scrutinized North Korea's record in its 4th UPR. Rather than rejecting engagement, Pyongyang sent a delegation to defend its record. Eritrea showed the same pattern, accepting some recommendations while dismissing others as politicized.
1/ Happy to share that "Manufacturing Compliance: How Pariah Autocracies Strategically Engage with International Human Rights Mechanisms," with @ChunYoung_Park and Dr. Hyunkyu Kim at HUFS, is now out at International Political Science Review. doi.org/10.1177/019251212614…
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Brief pause from Messi's magic to share my new piece in the Annual Review of Political Science:
"Education as a Political Institution"
which explains why we should stop treating education as just another public service
Open access here: tinyurl.com/yezzkam5
