Cheol-Sung Lee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603428 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cheol-Sung Lee |
| NOMBRES | Cheol-Sung |
| APELLIDO | Lee |
| FIRMA | LEE C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3661-981X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
National Rice Culture Theory and Economic Growth in Asia
This study proposes a crop-based theory of development and tests it using unique cross-national panel data sets. While Weberian and institutional economic theorists have previously explained East Asian development by applying Confucianism or developmental-state theory to successful cases in the region, I highlight the long-term legacy of rice cultivation as the underlying characteristic shaping national labor profiles. On this theory, the tightly…
The Evolution of Social Caging in the Rice Cultivation System
How and why did East Asians develop their tight-knit social relationships? In answering this question, I have developed a theoretical notion, the social cage, which is a social institution that rice-farming societies have built to discourage their members from exiting. Initially, this comparative-historical study traces back to the Song Dynasty to consider two institutionally complementary revolutions as the sources of contemporary social cages i…
Brokerage of the Illicit Migrant Labor and Trust
본 연구는 국내의 일용직 노동시장에서 민간 노동 중개업자들이 이주노동자들을 중개하는 과정을 탐구한다. 노동 중개인들은 비합법 이주노동의 수요와 공급을 포착하여, 이주자들을 2차 노동시장의 단기적이고 유연한 일자리에 배치한다. 일반적으로 중개인의 고용 알선과 이 과정에서 발생하는 이주자에 대한 착취는 중개인 개인의 비도덕성이나 불법 행위의 문제로 간주되어 왔다. 그러나 구체적으로 비합법 이주노동시장이 이주노동 통제와 어떤 관련을 맺는지, 그리고 이 구조가 어떻게 착취의 조건을 만들어내는지에 대해서는 주목하지 못했다. 본 연구는 지역 사회에서 인력 고용을 알선하는 선주민 중개업자들과 심층 인터뷰를 수행하고, 그들이 이주노동자와 고용주 사이에서 ‘신뢰’를 형성하고 유지하는 다양한 전략이 비합법 이주노동시장을 구성하고 있다는 점에 주목하였다. 중개인들은 이주자와 고용주 각각의 네트워크를 통해 일자리를 …
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial Covid-19 pandemic
This article utilizes cross-national datasets to build and test a theoretical framework that emphasizes the interactive relationship between political freedom and inequality regimes in explaining the spread and control of COVID-19. First, we construct a theoretical framework to analyze the dilemmas faced by liberal democratic regimes in managing both the economy and virus control. Next, we incorporate another framework to conceptualize the capaci…
How Rice Fights Pandemics
Wealthy nations led health preparedness rankings in 2019, yet many poor nations controlled COVID-19 better. We argue that a history of rice farming explains why some societies did better. We outline how traditional rice farming led to tight social norms and low-mobility social networks. These social structures helped coordinate societies against COVID-19. Study 1 compares rice- and wheat-farming prefectures within China. Comparing within China al…
Union brokerage and the gender gap in the labor market
This article explores the role of union-centered brokerage in promoting women’s labor force participation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for the last three decades. Using two measures of brokerage, a union’s core brokerage role, and its general brokerage role, we attempted to capture the processes by which union activists mobilize and extend women’s rights in associational fields. Then, we tested our key argum…
Exploring the gender gap in welfare attitudes
This article introduces a new aspect of skill profiles, 'relational skills', to examine how occupation-oriented relational skills can activate different perceptions of pay equity between genders and influence support for the welfare state. Relational skills refer to the degree of which a worker possesses skills pertaining to human interactions to those regarding the operation of machines or tools. We examine how relational skill ratio differently…
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas
Using two nationally representative surveys, we find that people in China's historically rice-farming areas are less happy than people in wheat areas. This is a puzzle because the rice area is more interdependent, and relationships are an important predictor of happiness. We explore how the interdependence of historical rice farming may have paradoxically undermined happiness by creating more social comparison than wheat farming. We build a frame…
Generation, Class, and Hierarchy II
본 연구는 2010년대 들어 악화되고 있는 청년실업 및 비정규직 고용 실태의 원인을 탐구한다. 우리는 세 수준의 구조적 변동 — 첫째 인구구조의 변동, 둘째 연공제의 구조화, 셋째 세대 네트워크의 강화 —에 주목한다. 곧, 노동조합으로 대표되는 세대 네트워크가 전투적 경제주의를 통해 2000년대에연공제하의임금상승률을높여놓은상황에서, 2010년대인구구조상최대다수인 베이비 부머(1958~1963년생) 혹은 386 코어 세대(1960~1964년생)가 연공제 사다리의 최상층에 다다르면서 기업의 비용위기가 초래되었다고 가정한다. 우리는 50대 고임금 수령 노동자의 과잉으로 더 큰 비용압박을 받는 기업일수록 청년 고용을 축소하고 비정규직의 사용을 늘림으로써 비용위기를 모면하려 할 것이라 추정한다. 이러한 주장을 검증하기 위해 본 연구는 2005년에서 2017년에 걸쳐 모집된 사업체 패널을 고정효과 모델(f…
Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society
This article develops a conceptual framework to theorize the processes of mutual penetration between civil society, the state, and the economy, where incumbents and challengers continuously formulate new strategies against each other. We criticize the prevailing Weberian and Tocquevillian concepts of civil society, and then, drawing on research in social movements and comparative political economy, propose a new framework: the politics of forward…
When Solidarity Works
Why do some labor movements successfully defend the welfare state even under the pressures of neo-liberal market reform? Why do some unions (and their allied parties and civic associations) succeed in building more universal and comprehensive social policy regimes, while others fail to do so? In this innovative work, Cheol-Sung Lee explores these conundrums through a comparative historical analysis of four countries: Argentina, Brazil, South Kore…
Going Underground
This study explores how different forms of civic solidarity emerge during authoritarian eras and how they evolve into diverse labor-based political institutions after transitions to democracy. I initially explore the modes of choices that radical intellectuals make-go underground or cooperate-in their responses to coercion and co-optation by authoritarian elites. Based on comparative historical evidence of institutionalization processes of labor-…
Relational skill assets and anti-immigrant sentiments
Welfare States and Social Trust
This article tests the linkage between institutional configuration and social trust, highlighting the role of the welfare states in coordinating interests among different labor market actors. This study initially builds a theoretical framework distinguishing training-supplemented welfare regimes from transfer-based welfare regimes. Evidence from descriptive and multivariate analyses of World Values Survey based on 17 advanced industrial democraci…
Pathways to Empowerment
This article examines how different repertoires of women's activism influence gender earnings equality across countries. We develop a typology of three forms of mobilization-professionalized women's activism, labor women's activism, and women's activism in popular movements-emphasizing distinct actors, patterns of claims-making, and inter-organizational ties among women's organizations and other civil society groups in multi-organizational fields…
Associational Networks and Welfare States in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan
This article investigates the structures of civic networks and their roles in steering the political choices of party and union elites regarding the retrenchment or expansion of welfare states in four recently democratized developing countries. Utilizing coaffiliation networks built upon two waves of World Values Surveys and evidence from comparative case studies for Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan, the study develops two explanatory f…
The Limit of Equality Projects
In this study, we investigate how structural economic changes constrain an equality project, the public-sector expansion strategy. First, we describe a three-stage process in which a growing productivity gap between the private-manufacturing and public-service sectors disrupts traditional class solidarity. We contend that emerging conflicts between private and public sectors due to public-sector expansion and a growing inter-sectoral productivity…
Labor Unions and Good Governance
Using network-based measures of unions' centrality among civic associations, this article builds and tests a theoretical framework that highlights labor unions' central role in enhancing governance. I first construct three measures to capture the connectedness and power of representative voluntary civic associations, membership density, degree centrality (comemberships), and power centrality, based on the affiliation network matrices for 54 count…
Why do some employees support welfare states more than others? Skill profiles and social policy preferences in the United States
Income Inequality, Democracy, and Public Sector Size
This study synthesizes and tests explanations of how public sector size and democracy affect income inequality. The results, based on unbalanced panel data for 64 developing and developed countries and a total of 341 observations from 1970 to 1994, show that a strong interaction between democracy and public sector development explains withincountry income inequality. Public sector expansion translates into worse distributional outcomes in nondemo…
Income Inequality, Democracy, and Public Sector Size
This study synthesizes and tests explanations of how public sector size and democracy affect income inequality. The results, based on unbalanced panel data for 64 developing and developed countries and a total of 341 observations from 1970 to 1994, show that a strong interaction between democracy and public sector development explains withincountry income inequality. Public sector expansion translates into worse distributional outcomes in nondemo…
Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society
This article develops a conceptual framework to theorize the processes of mutual penetration between civil society, the state, and the economy, where incumbents and challengers continuously formulate new strategies against each other. We criticize the prevailing Weberian and Tocquevillian concepts of civil society, and then, drawing on research in social movements and comparative political economy, propose a new framework: the politics of forward…
Labor Unions and Good Governance
Using network-based measures of unions' centrality among civic associations, this article builds and tests a theoretical framework that highlights labor unions' central role in enhancing governance. I first construct three measures to capture the connectedness and power of representative voluntary civic associations, membership density, degree centrality (comemberships), and power centrality, based on the affiliation network matrices for 54 count…
Pathways to Empowerment
This article examines how different repertoires of women's activism influence gender earnings equality across countries. We develop a typology of three forms of mobilization-professionalized women's activism, labor women's activism, and women's activism in popular movements-emphasizing distinct actors, patterns of claims-making, and inter-organizational ties among women's organizations and other civil society groups in multi-organizational fields…
The Limit of Equality Projects
In this study, we investigate how structural economic changes constrain an equality project, the public-sector expansion strategy. First, we describe a three-stage process in which a growing productivity gap between the private-manufacturing and public-service sectors disrupts traditional class solidarity. We contend that emerging conflicts between private and public sectors due to public-sector expansion and a growing inter-sectoral productivity…
Welfare States and Social Trust
This article tests the linkage between institutional configuration and social trust, highlighting the role of the welfare states in coordinating interests among different labor market actors. This study initially builds a theoretical framework distinguishing training-supplemented welfare regimes from transfer-based welfare regimes. Evidence from descriptive and multivariate analyses of World Values Survey based on 17 advanced industrial democraci…
Associational Networks and Welfare States in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan
This article investigates the structures of civic networks and their roles in steering the political choices of party and union elites regarding the retrenchment or expansion of welfare states in four recently democratized developing countries. Utilizing coaffiliation networks built upon two waves of World Values Surveys and evidence from comparative case studies for Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan, the study develops two explanatory f…
Why do some employees support welfare states more than others? Skill profiles and social policy preferences in the United States
Going Underground
This study explores how different forms of civic solidarity emerge during authoritarian eras and how they evolve into diverse labor-based political institutions after transitions to democracy. I initially explore the modes of choices that radical intellectuals make-go underground or cooperate-in their responses to coercion and co-optation by authoritarian elites. Based on comparative historical evidence of institutionalization processes of labor-…
Relational skill assets and anti-immigrant sentiments
Union brokerage and the gender gap in the labor market
This article explores the role of union-centered brokerage in promoting women’s labor force participation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for the last three decades. Using two measures of brokerage, a union’s core brokerage role, and its general brokerage role, we attempted to capture the processes by which union activists mobilize and extend women’s rights in associational fields. Then, we tested our key argum…
Exploring the gender gap in welfare attitudes
This article introduces a new aspect of skill profiles, 'relational skills', to examine how occupation-oriented relational skills can activate different perceptions of pay equity between genders and influence support for the welfare state. Relational skills refer to the degree of which a worker possesses skills pertaining to human interactions to those regarding the operation of machines or tools. We examine how relational skill ratio differently…
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas
Using two nationally representative surveys, we find that people in China's historically rice-farming areas are less happy than people in wheat areas. This is a puzzle because the rice area is more interdependent, and relationships are an important predictor of happiness. We explore how the interdependence of historical rice farming may have paradoxically undermined happiness by creating more social comparison than wheat farming. We build a frame…
Income Inequality, Democracy, and Public Sector Size
This study synthesizes and tests explanations of how public sector size and democracy affect income inequality. The results, based on unbalanced panel data for 64 developing and developed countries and a total of 341 observations from 1970 to 1994, show that a strong interaction between democracy and public sector development explains withincountry income inequality. Public sector expansion translates into worse distributional outcomes in nondemo…
Labor Unions and Good Governance
Using network-based measures of unions' centrality among civic associations, this article builds and tests a theoretical framework that highlights labor unions' central role in enhancing governance. I first construct three measures to capture the connectedness and power of representative voluntary civic associations, membership density, degree centrality (comemberships), and power centrality, based on the affiliation network matrices for 54 count…
Why do some employees support welfare states more than others? Skill profiles and social policy preferences in the United States
The Limit of Equality Projects
In this study, we investigate how structural economic changes constrain an equality project, the public-sector expansion strategy. First, we describe a three-stage process in which a growing productivity gap between the private-manufacturing and public-service sectors disrupts traditional class solidarity. We contend that emerging conflicts between private and public sectors due to public-sector expansion and a growing inter-sectoral productivity…
Associational Networks and Welfare States in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan
This article investigates the structures of civic networks and their roles in steering the political choices of party and union elites regarding the retrenchment or expansion of welfare states in four recently democratized developing countries. Utilizing coaffiliation networks built upon two waves of World Values Surveys and evidence from comparative case studies for Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan, the study develops two explanatory f…
Welfare States and Social Trust
This article tests the linkage between institutional configuration and social trust, highlighting the role of the welfare states in coordinating interests among different labor market actors. This study initially builds a theoretical framework distinguishing training-supplemented welfare regimes from transfer-based welfare regimes. Evidence from descriptive and multivariate analyses of World Values Survey based on 17 advanced industrial democraci…
Pathways to Empowerment
This article examines how different repertoires of women's activism influence gender earnings equality across countries. We develop a typology of three forms of mobilization-professionalized women's activism, labor women's activism, and women's activism in popular movements-emphasizing distinct actors, patterns of claims-making, and inter-organizational ties among women's organizations and other civil society groups in multi-organizational fields…
Relational skill assets and anti-immigrant sentiments
When Solidarity Works
Why do some labor movements successfully defend the welfare state even under the pressures of neo-liberal market reform? Why do some unions (and their allied parties and civic associations) succeed in building more universal and comprehensive social policy regimes, while others fail to do so? In this innovative work, Cheol-Sung Lee explores these conundrums through a comparative historical analysis of four countries: Argentina, Brazil, South Kore…
Going Underground
This study explores how different forms of civic solidarity emerge during authoritarian eras and how they evolve into diverse labor-based political institutions after transitions to democracy. I initially explore the modes of choices that radical intellectuals make-go underground or cooperate-in their responses to coercion and co-optation by authoritarian elites. Based on comparative historical evidence of institutionalization processes of labor-…
Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society
This article develops a conceptual framework to theorize the processes of mutual penetration between civil society, the state, and the economy, where incumbents and challengers continuously formulate new strategies against each other. We criticize the prevailing Weberian and Tocquevillian concepts of civil society, and then, drawing on research in social movements and comparative political economy, propose a new framework: the politics of forward…
Generation, Class, and Hierarchy II
본 연구는 2010년대 들어 악화되고 있는 청년실업 및 비정규직 고용 실태의 원인을 탐구한다. 우리는 세 수준의 구조적 변동 — 첫째 인구구조의 변동, 둘째 연공제의 구조화, 셋째 세대 네트워크의 강화 —에 주목한다. 곧, 노동조합으로 대표되는 세대 네트워크가 전투적 경제주의를 통해 2000년대에연공제하의임금상승률을높여놓은상황에서, 2010년대인구구조상최대다수인 베이비 부머(1958~1963년생) 혹은 386 코어 세대(1960~1964년생)가 연공제 사다리의 최상층에 다다르면서 기업의 비용위기가 초래되었다고 가정한다. 우리는 50대 고임금 수령 노동자의 과잉으로 더 큰 비용압박을 받는 기업일수록 청년 고용을 축소하고 비정규직의 사용을 늘림으로써 비용위기를 모면하려 할 것이라 추정한다. 이러한 주장을 검증하기 위해 본 연구는 2005년에서 2017년에 걸쳐 모집된 사업체 패널을 고정효과 모델(f…
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas
Using two nationally representative surveys, we find that people in China's historically rice-farming areas are less happy than people in wheat areas. This is a puzzle because the rice area is more interdependent, and relationships are an important predictor of happiness. We explore how the interdependence of historical rice farming may have paradoxically undermined happiness by creating more social comparison than wheat farming. We build a frame…
How Rice Fights Pandemics
Wealthy nations led health preparedness rankings in 2019, yet many poor nations controlled COVID-19 better. We argue that a history of rice farming explains why some societies did better. We outline how traditional rice farming led to tight social norms and low-mobility social networks. These social structures helped coordinate societies against COVID-19. Study 1 compares rice- and wheat-farming prefectures within China. Comparing within China al…
Union brokerage and the gender gap in the labor market
This article explores the role of union-centered brokerage in promoting women’s labor force participation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for the last three decades. Using two measures of brokerage, a union’s core brokerage role, and its general brokerage role, we attempted to capture the processes by which union activists mobilize and extend women’s rights in associational fields. Then, we tested our key argum…
Exploring the gender gap in welfare attitudes
This article introduces a new aspect of skill profiles, 'relational skills', to examine how occupation-oriented relational skills can activate different perceptions of pay equity between genders and influence support for the welfare state. Relational skills refer to the degree of which a worker possesses skills pertaining to human interactions to those regarding the operation of machines or tools. We examine how relational skill ratio differently…
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial Covid-19 pandemic
This article utilizes cross-national datasets to build and test a theoretical framework that emphasizes the interactive relationship between political freedom and inequality regimes in explaining the spread and control of COVID-19. First, we construct a theoretical framework to analyze the dilemmas faced by liberal democratic regimes in managing both the economy and virus control. Next, we incorporate another framework to conceptualize the capaci…
Brokerage of the Illicit Migrant Labor and Trust
본 연구는 국내의 일용직 노동시장에서 민간 노동 중개업자들이 이주노동자들을 중개하는 과정을 탐구한다. 노동 중개인들은 비합법 이주노동의 수요와 공급을 포착하여, 이주자들을 2차 노동시장의 단기적이고 유연한 일자리에 배치한다. 일반적으로 중개인의 고용 알선과 이 과정에서 발생하는 이주자에 대한 착취는 중개인 개인의 비도덕성이나 불법 행위의 문제로 간주되어 왔다. 그러나 구체적으로 비합법 이주노동시장이 이주노동 통제와 어떤 관련을 맺는지, 그리고 이 구조가 어떻게 착취의 조건을 만들어내는지에 대해서는 주목하지 못했다. 본 연구는 지역 사회에서 인력 고용을 알선하는 선주민 중개업자들과 심층 인터뷰를 수행하고, 그들이 이주노동자와 고용주 사이에서 ‘신뢰’를 형성하고 유지하는 다양한 전략이 비합법 이주노동시장을 구성하고 있다는 점에 주목하였다. 중개인들은 이주자와 고용주 각각의 네트워크를 통해 일자리를 …
National Rice Culture Theory and Economic Growth in Asia
This study proposes a crop-based theory of development and tests it using unique cross-national panel data sets. While Weberian and institutional economic theorists have previously explained East Asian development by applying Confucianism or developmental-state theory to successful cases in the region, I highlight the long-term legacy of rice cultivation as the underlying characteristic shaping national labor profiles. On this theory, the tightly…
The Evolution of Social Caging in the Rice Cultivation System
How and why did East Asians develop their tight-knit social relationships? In answering this question, I have developed a theoretical notion, the social cage, which is a social institution that rice-farming societies have built to discourage their members from exiting. Initially, this comparative-historical study traces back to the Song Dynasty to consider two institutionally complementary revolutions as the sources of contemporary social cages i…
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