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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
When Legislators Are Landlords: Deliberative Capture and the Limits of Financial Disclosure in South Korean Legislative Committees
with Yunjung Yang
Polarization in Local Politics: Text-as-Data Analysis of Municipal Meetings