Public Management, Public Employee Motivation/Satisfaction, Local Government and Regional Development, Intergovernmental Relations, Network Analysis
Education
(Ph.D.) Dept. of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University (2019)
(M.P.A.) Dept. of Public Administration, Korea University (2013)
(B.A.) Dept. of Public Administration, Korea University (2010)
Experience
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Governance/Dept. of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University (2024-Present)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Miami (2020-2023)
PostDoc, Dept. of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University (2020)
Journal Articles
(2023)
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states?.
SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL.
60,
2
(2023)
Competition and Local Government’s Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-Offs.
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
53,
3-4
(2023)
Do not ask for job information from your close friends or from strangers: strength of moderate ties in finding a satisfying job.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY.
(2023)
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence.
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
53,
3-4
(2022)
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment.
ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY.
54,
2
(2021)
Public service motivation and government officials’ willingness to learn in public sector benchmarking process.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW.
23,
4
(2021)
Public service motivation, job satisfaction, and the moderating effect of employment sector: a meta-analysis.
International Review of Public Administration.
26,
2
(2020)
Testing structural and relational embeddedness in collaboration risk.
RATIONALITY AND SOCIETY.
32,
1
(2020)
When Would a Democratic Governor Increase Social Welfare Funding? The Joint Moderation of a State’s Economy and a Governor’s Budgetary Authority.
REVIEW OF POLICY RESEARCH.
37,
5
(2019)
Defection Vulnerability of Services and Inter-Governmental Agreement for Public Service Delivery.
한국행정논집.
31,
2
(2019)
Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW.
23,
35
Honors / Awards
Political Science Summer 2023 Research Grant, University of Miami ($2,500), May 2023
Nomination for Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence and Impact of Early Career, University of Miami, Mar 2023
Morris W.H. Collins Award (Best Doctoral Student Paper of the Year), Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), Birmingham, Alabama, Sep 2018
De Guzman Ph.D. Best Paper Award, Askew School of Public Administration, Florida State University, Apr 2018