Aram Hur
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aram Hur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aram |
| FAMILY NAME | Hur |
| SIGNATURE | HUR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1221-5749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
South Korea's Democracy at a Crossroads
Two questions are commonly asked about South Korea's stunning martial law decree in 2024: Why this and why now? I take a historical-structural approach to trace South Korea's recent crisis back to the nationalist origins of its democracy. South Korea democratized amid internal nationalist conflict that became entrenched into the nascent party system, polarizing the party factions along mutually exclusive nationalist visions. Such nationalist pola…
Democratic Benefits of Nationalism
The Perils of South Korean Democracy
In a nationally televised address on 3 December 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared nationwide martial law for the first time since 1980. With nationwide protests growing, Yoon was impeached and eventually arrested on insurrection charges, marking South Korea's first arrest of a sitting president. This crisis, though shocking, reflects longstanding nationalist polarization rooted in unresolved conflicts tracing back to the Korean …
Democratic Ceilings
East Asian democracies, long seen as the success stories of the Third Wave, have curiously co-existed with illiberal partisan competition. We argue that such patterns are symptoms of long-standing democratic stagnation, rather than democratic regress. We trace the entrenchment of illiberal competition to nationalist polarization in the early phase of democratization—a common phenomenon in Third Wave democracies where nation-building and democrati…
Migrant integration and the psychology of national belonging
What aids the successful integration of migrants? Most works focus on the host state’s policies and goals, but belonging is an interactive process. I examine how migrant beliefs about national belonging – how they see membership in the host society and their relative place in it – shape their integration trajectories. I focus on North Korean refugees in South Korea, a case of co-ethnic integration that naturally controls for many confounders of s…
Refugee Perceptions toward Democratic Citizenship
This article examines the informal dimension of political integration for refugees: how, after a lifetime of authoritarianism, do they make sense of their newfound democratic citizenship? I identify the perceptual lenses that refugees use through a narrative study of North Korean refugees in South Korea. Discourse analysis of thirty-one personal narratives and twenty paired debates on topics about democratic citizenship reveals a surprising pheno…
Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities
Why do citizens choose to comply in democracies, even when coercion is limited? Existing answers focus on contractual trust or expected payoffs. I show that a different pathway exists in the ethical pull of the nation. A large literature in political theory argues that special communities, such as the nation, can instill an ethical obligation to the collective welfare, even in the absence of formal rules. I argue that when the identities of one’s…
Adapting to Democracy
Defection from North Korea to South Korea has increased dramatically, but little is known of its political consequences. Do North Korean defectors successfully adopt democratic norms, and if so, what factors aid this process? Through a novel survey of defectors, I find that national identification plays a significant role in motivating their fledgling sense of democratic obligation. Greater feelings of national unity with South Koreans lead to a …
Is there an intrinsic duty to vote? Comparative evidence from East and West Germans
Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey
Journal Article Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey Get access Aram Hur, Aram Hur Aram Hur is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Christopher H. Achen is a professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. An earlier version of this research note was presented at the McGill-Princeton Workshop on the Overreporting of Voter Turnout, Novem…
Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey
Journal Article Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey Get access Aram Hur, Aram Hur Aram Hur is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Christopher H. Achen is a professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. An earlier version of this research note was presented at the McGill-Princeton Workshop on the Overreporting of Voter Turnout, Novem…
Democratic Ceilings
East Asian democracies, long seen as the success stories of the Third Wave, have curiously co-existed with illiberal partisan competition. We argue that such patterns are symptoms of long-standing democratic stagnation, rather than democratic regress. We trace the entrenchment of illiberal competition to nationalist polarization in the early phase of democratization—a common phenomenon in Third Wave democracies where nation-building and democrati…
Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities
Why do citizens choose to comply in democracies, even when coercion is limited? Existing answers focus on contractual trust or expected payoffs. I show that a different pathway exists in the ethical pull of the nation. A large literature in political theory argues that special communities, such as the nation, can instill an ethical obligation to the collective welfare, even in the absence of formal rules. I argue that when the identities of one’s…
Refugee Perceptions toward Democratic Citizenship
This article examines the informal dimension of political integration for refugees: how, after a lifetime of authoritarianism, do they make sense of their newfound democratic citizenship? I identify the perceptual lenses that refugees use through a narrative study of North Korean refugees in South Korea. Discourse analysis of thirty-one personal narratives and twenty paired debates on topics about democratic citizenship reveals a surprising pheno…
Is there an intrinsic duty to vote? Comparative evidence from East and West Germans
Adapting to Democracy
Defection from North Korea to South Korea has increased dramatically, but little is known of its political consequences. Do North Korean defectors successfully adopt democratic norms, and if so, what factors aid this process? Through a novel survey of defectors, I find that national identification plays a significant role in motivating their fledgling sense of democratic obligation. Greater feelings of national unity with South Koreans lead to a …
Migrant integration and the psychology of national belonging
What aids the successful integration of migrants? Most works focus on the host state’s policies and goals, but belonging is an interactive process. I examine how migrant beliefs about national belonging – how they see membership in the host society and their relative place in it – shape their integration trajectories. I focus on North Korean refugees in South Korea, a case of co-ethnic integration that naturally controls for many confounders of s…
Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey
Journal Article Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey Get access Aram Hur, Aram Hur Aram Hur is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Christopher H. Achen is a professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. An earlier version of this research note was presented at the McGill-Princeton Workshop on the Overreporting of Voter Turnout, Novem…
Is there an intrinsic duty to vote? Comparative evidence from East and West Germans
Adapting to Democracy
Defection from North Korea to South Korea has increased dramatically, but little is known of its political consequences. Do North Korean defectors successfully adopt democratic norms, and if so, what factors aid this process? Through a novel survey of defectors, I find that national identification plays a significant role in motivating their fledgling sense of democratic obligation. Greater feelings of national unity with South Koreans lead to a …
Refugee Perceptions toward Democratic Citizenship
This article examines the informal dimension of political integration for refugees: how, after a lifetime of authoritarianism, do they make sense of their newfound democratic citizenship? I identify the perceptual lenses that refugees use through a narrative study of North Korean refugees in South Korea. Discourse analysis of thirty-one personal narratives and twenty paired debates on topics about democratic citizenship reveals a surprising pheno…
Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities
Why do citizens choose to comply in democracies, even when coercion is limited? Existing answers focus on contractual trust or expected payoffs. I show that a different pathway exists in the ethical pull of the nation. A large literature in political theory argues that special communities, such as the nation, can instill an ethical obligation to the collective welfare, even in the absence of formal rules. I argue that when the identities of one’s…
Migrant integration and the psychology of national belonging
What aids the successful integration of migrants? Most works focus on the host state’s policies and goals, but belonging is an interactive process. I examine how migrant beliefs about national belonging – how they see membership in the host society and their relative place in it – shape their integration trajectories. I focus on North Korean refugees in South Korea, a case of co-ethnic integration that naturally controls for many confounders of s…
Democratic Ceilings
East Asian democracies, long seen as the success stories of the Third Wave, have curiously co-existed with illiberal partisan competition. We argue that such patterns are symptoms of long-standing democratic stagnation, rather than democratic regress. We trace the entrenchment of illiberal competition to nationalist polarization in the early phase of democratization—a common phenomenon in Third Wave democracies where nation-building and democrati…
South Korea's Democracy at a Crossroads
Two questions are commonly asked about South Korea's stunning martial law decree in 2024: Why this and why now? I take a historical-structural approach to trace South Korea's recent crisis back to the nationalist origins of its democracy. South Korea democratized amid internal nationalist conflict that became entrenched into the nascent party system, polarizing the party factions along mutually exclusive nationalist visions. Such nationalist pola…
Democratic Benefits of Nationalism
The Perils of South Korean Democracy
In a nationally televised address on 3 December 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared nationwide martial law for the first time since 1980. With nationwide protests growing, Yoon was impeached and eventually arrested on insurrection charges, marking South Korea's first arrest of a sitting president. This crisis, though shocking, reflects longstanding nationalist polarization rooted in unresolved conflicts tracing back to the Korean …
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Duty (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (4 works) · Obligation (4 works)