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On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948 (2021)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Casal Bertoa, F. (2021). On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948. Party Politics, 28(6), 1187–1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211046858

Electoral stability has been viewed as an essential condition for the healthy functioning of representative democracy. However, there is little agreement in the literature about what shapes the stability of the electorate in general nor much attentio... Read More about On the causes of electoral volatility in Asia since 1948.

What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians? (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (2021). What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians?. Policy and Politics, 49(1), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557320X15955052478653

The aim of this article is to explore the motivations of street-level bureaucrats when implementing change initiated by elected politicians. We analyse experimental data on more than 1,800 local civil servants from all 243 local governments in South... Read More about What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians?.

Regulatory Reform in the Era of New Technological Development: The Role of Organizational Factors in the Public Sector (2020)
Journal Article
Park, S., Lee, D. S., & Son, J. (2020). Regulatory Reform in the Era of New Technological Development: The Role of Organizational Factors in the Public Sector. Regulation and Governance, 15(3), 894-908. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12339

What is the role of organizational factors in fostering regulatory reform in response to new technological development? Existing studies provide useful frameworks to understand regulatory reform in rapidly changing circumstances but still lack a syst... Read More about Regulatory Reform in the Era of New Technological Development: The Role of Organizational Factors in the Public Sector.

Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Park, S., Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (2021). Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations. Public Management Review, 23(8), 1160-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2020.1730941

In this article, we examine public employees' perceptions of agency heads' leadership styles by focusing on the role of gender in organizational management. Employing an original survey experiment with over 800 national civil servants in South Korea,... Read More about Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations.

Ministerial Leadership and Endorsement of Bureaucrats: Experimental Evidence from Presidential Governments (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (2020). Ministerial Leadership and Endorsement of Bureaucrats: Experimental Evidence from Presidential Governments. Public Administration Review, 80(3), 426-441. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13153

Scholars have debated over what constitutes effective ministerial leadership regarding administrative competence versus political influence. We contribute experimental evidence to this debate through a unique survey design of endorsement experiments.... Read More about Ministerial Leadership and Endorsement of Bureaucrats: Experimental Evidence from Presidential Governments.

Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies? (2019)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Schuler, P. J. (2020). Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies?. Comparative Political Studies, 53(3-4), 531-566. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019858962

Proponents of the "China Model" suggest that autocracies, particularly in East Asia, reward competence more than democracies. However, a competing literature argues that autocracies are less likely to reward competence because autocrats fear that com... Read More about Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies?.

Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan (2018)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018). Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1(2), 273-300. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00102003

How does the Western media frame Taiwan? Analysing a large set of Western newspaper reports over the past two decades, this article provides the first systematic assessment of global coverage of Taiwan. Seeking to explain why Taiwan has been framed i... Read More about Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan.

Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S. (2018). Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 18(3), 345-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2018.16

How do the president's calculations in achieving policy goals shape the allocation of cabinet portfolios? Despite the growing literature on presidential cabinet appointments, this question has barely been addressed. I argue that cabinet appointments... Read More about Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea.

Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (in press). Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia. Asian Journal of Political Science, 26(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2018.1476257

This article examines patterns of women’s cabinet representation across all presidential democracies in East and Southeast Asia since democratization. It demonstrates how the choice of female ministers differs across career backgrounds in presidentia... Read More about Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia.

Executive capacity to control legislatures and presidential choice of cabinet ministers in East Asian democracies (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S. (2018). Executive capacity to control legislatures and presidential choice of cabinet ministers in East Asian democracies. Governance, 31(4), 777-795. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12341

How do presidents in new democracies choose cabinet ministers to accomplish their policy goals? Contrary to existing studies explaining the partisan composition of the cabinet with institutional characteristics, such as formal authority, we argue tha... Read More about Executive capacity to control legislatures and presidential choice of cabinet ministers in East Asian democracies.

Executive control of bureaucracy and presidential cabinet appointments in East Asian democracies (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S. (2020). Executive control of bureaucracy and presidential cabinet appointments in East Asian democracies. Regulation and Governance, 14(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12190

This article examines the role of cabinet appointments in controlling the bureaucracy in presidential democracies. I demonstrate how administrative challenges stemming from the structure of the bureaucracy shape presidential choice of ministers. Anal... Read More about Executive control of bureaucracy and presidential cabinet appointments in East Asian democracies.