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Research
Kyusik Yang · NYU Department of Politics · Google Scholar
Dissertation
“Three Essays on Executive Control and Bureaucratic Implementation” Committee: Sanford Gordon (chair), Hye Young You, Bryant Moy · Expected Defense: April 2027
Essay 1: Local Participation in Federal Enforcement: Evidence from the 287(g) Program JMP
Essay 2: Bureaucratizing Justice: Executive Control in Immigration Courts Working Project
with Nathan Lee
Essay 3: Bureaucratic Control and Compliance: Evidence from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Working Project
Published Articles
Speech and Voice in Politics: Multimodal Analysis of Presidential Addresses to the Korean National Assembly Forthcoming
Yang, Kyusik. 2026. Korea Observer, forthcoming.
South Korea in 2025: Democratic Comeback and the Challenges of Institutional Resilience
Jin, Youngjae and Kyusik Yang. 2026. Asian Survey 66(2): 230–240.
Resilient Democracy or Fragile Democracy? The Declaration of Martial Law and Presidential Impeachment in South Korea
Jin, Youngjae and Kyusik Yang. 2025. Asian Survey 65(6): 729–750.
Measuring Legislators’ Ideology and Analyzing Ideological Differences Across Standing Committees Using Wordfish Korean
Cho, Eunmi, Sinjae Kang, Kyusik Yang, Yongjai Yu, and Yoonseok Lee. 2024. Journal of Research Methodology 9(3): 33–79.
Appropriate Size for the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Korean
Yang, Kyusik and Youngjae Jin. 2017. Journal of Parliamentary Research 12(1): 277–281.
Working Projects
Style Over Substance: How Citizens Evaluate the Quality of Public Petitions Under Review
with Seo-young Silvia Kim and Byungkoo Kim
Korean Politics, in Short: A Multimodal Analysis of YouTube Shorts by Members of the National Assembly
with Yongjai Yu
Populist Strategies in Korean Election Manifestos: An LLM-Based Quantitative Analysis
Invited and In Preparation for Political Studies Review
Expertise on Demand: Executive Power and the Politics of Policy Knowledge in South Korea
with Sunghyun Kim and Jaehak Kim
Who Owns North Korea Policy? Bureaucratic Competition and Issue Ownership in South Korea
with Jaeyoung Hur
Polarization in Local Politics: Text-as-Data Analysis of Municipal Meetings