Bon Sang Koo
Biographic Data
| ID | 241024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bon Sang Koo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bon Sang |
| FAMILY NAME | Koo |
| SIGNATURE | KOO B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chungbuk National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4335-359X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social psychological explanations of democratic public’s attitudes towards China, a non-democratic superpower: Evidence from South Korea
This study examines public attitudes in a democratic state toward China as a non-democratic superpower within a social psychological framework. Employing 2021 survey data from South Korea, it investigates how ideological orientations—right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)—along with historically rooted national images of China shape attitudes toward China-related issues. The key findings are as follows: (1) Prefe…
Exploring public attitudes toward integration with an underdeveloped entity: Rationality, ideological orientations, and ethnic identity
Beyond generational discourse: An age-period-cohort analysis of South Koreans’ attitudes toward reunification with North Korea
This study conducts age-period-cohort analyses of South Koreans' attitudes toward reunification with North Korea, a hostile polity that shares a national identity, using the Korea Institute for National Unification survey data accumulated since 2014. It is found that the attitudes toward unification, in general, vary with age. Older respondents tend to show a greater need for unification, a weaker orientation toward peaceful coexistence, and a gr…
When legislators responded to news media surveys: Unstable responses, missing not at random responses, and self-censorship
Who Takes the Japanese Threat Seriously? A Survey‐Based Analysis of South Koreans’ Perceptions
This study explores the factors underlying South Koreans' negative perceptions of Japan beyond nationalism or simple partisan conflict. This paper employed the 2020 Korea Institute for National Unification survey, and statistical models revealed that the following factors are related to fundamental threat perception. First, the utility of Korean unification is associated with perceptions of the military threat posed by Japan. Second, after contro…
Predicting the 21st General Election Results Through Polling-Based Methods
This paper attempts to derive broad inferences about the 21st General Election through polling-based methods. Despite the challenges (e.g., small populations, in-person campaigns constrained by the gravity of COVID-19, the period of prohibition on publication of survey results), this paper predicts the election results by using various analytical techniques and statistical models including the Bayesian predictive model. Overall, the predictive mo…
Testing legislative shirking in a new setting: The case of lame duck sessions in the Korean National Assembly
This paper aims to test two types of legislative shirking in a new democracy, South Korea. Using the lame-duck sessions of the Korean National Assembly, we test whether a legislator shirks in voting participation and in voting decisions. We weave two competing motivations of legislative shirking in voting participation – that to secure more leisure time and that to utilize the last, valuable voting opportunity – into a synthetic hypothesis and te…
Traditional Gender Gap in a Modernized Society: Gender Dynamics in Voter Turnout in Korea
Military Rule in South Korea Revisited: Different Survival Strategies and Different Pathways
This paper revisits the military rule in Korea by paying attention, like Korean specialists, to the disconnection in dictatorship but like comparativists, using the tools in comparative studies of modern authoritarian regimes. This paper argues that the differences in the military leaders' orientations (personalist vs. party-based type) and survival strategies to deal with potential threat sources (key insiders, political opponents, and economic …
Does a Rule Change that Weakens Majority Control Really Increase Bipartisanship in the Legislature: Evidence from the Korean National Assembly
This paper examines the effects of vote quorum change upon the success of bills in the legislative procedure by utilizing the recent legislative dataset in the 18th and 19th Korean National Assembly. The 18th and 19th KNA offers a unique opportunity for testing the effects in that major rule changes have been rare in legislatures in institutionalized democracies. The results show that the institutions designed to enforce bipartisan consensus beyo…
Analyzing Kim Jong‐un's Survival Strategy from the Comparative Authoritarian Perspective
This paper shows that we can properly analyze Kim Jong‐un's survival strategy by employing the knowledge accumulated in comparative studies of contemporary authoritarianism . According to Geddes et al .'s classification, North Korea belongs to a hybrid type that possesses the characteristics of the personalist and single‐party types. Recent comparative studies demonstrate that personalist rulers who are not convinced of their firm control of the …
Testing legislative shirking in a new setting: The case of lame duck sessions in the Korean National Assembly
This paper aims to test two types of legislative shirking in a new democracy, South Korea. Using the lame-duck sessions of the Korean National Assembly, we test whether a legislator shirks in voting participation and in voting decisions. We weave two competing motivations of legislative shirking in voting participation – that to secure more leisure time and that to utilize the last, valuable voting opportunity – into a synthetic hypothesis and te…
Traditional Gender Gap in a Modernized Society: Gender Dynamics in Voter Turnout in Korea
Analyzing Kim Jong‐un's Survival Strategy from the Comparative Authoritarian Perspective
This paper shows that we can properly analyze Kim Jong‐un's survival strategy by employing the knowledge accumulated in comparative studies of contemporary authoritarianism . According to Geddes et al .'s classification, North Korea belongs to a hybrid type that possesses the characteristics of the personalist and single‐party types. Recent comparative studies demonstrate that personalist rulers who are not convinced of their firm control of the …
Beyond generational discourse: An age-period-cohort analysis of South Koreans’ attitudes toward reunification with North Korea
This study conducts age-period-cohort analyses of South Koreans' attitudes toward reunification with North Korea, a hostile polity that shares a national identity, using the Korea Institute for National Unification survey data accumulated since 2014. It is found that the attitudes toward unification, in general, vary with age. Older respondents tend to show a greater need for unification, a weaker orientation toward peaceful coexistence, and a gr…
Who Takes the Japanese Threat Seriously? A Survey‐Based Analysis of South Koreans’ Perceptions
This study explores the factors underlying South Koreans' negative perceptions of Japan beyond nationalism or simple partisan conflict. This paper employed the 2020 Korea Institute for National Unification survey, and statistical models revealed that the following factors are related to fundamental threat perception. First, the utility of Korean unification is associated with perceptions of the military threat posed by Japan. Second, after contro…
Military Rule in South Korea Revisited: Different Survival Strategies and Different Pathways
This paper revisits the military rule in Korea by paying attention, like Korean specialists, to the disconnection in dictatorship but like comparativists, using the tools in comparative studies of modern authoritarian regimes. This paper argues that the differences in the military leaders' orientations (personalist vs. party-based type) and survival strategies to deal with potential threat sources (key insiders, political opponents, and economic …
Analyzing Kim Jong‐un's Survival Strategy from the Comparative Authoritarian Perspective
This paper shows that we can properly analyze Kim Jong‐un's survival strategy by employing the knowledge accumulated in comparative studies of contemporary authoritarianism . According to Geddes et al .'s classification, North Korea belongs to a hybrid type that possesses the characteristics of the personalist and single‐party types. Recent comparative studies demonstrate that personalist rulers who are not convinced of their firm control of the …
Does a Rule Change that Weakens Majority Control Really Increase Bipartisanship in the Legislature: Evidence from the Korean National Assembly
This paper examines the effects of vote quorum change upon the success of bills in the legislative procedure by utilizing the recent legislative dataset in the 18th and 19th Korean National Assembly. The 18th and 19th KNA offers a unique opportunity for testing the effects in that major rule changes have been rare in legislatures in institutionalized democracies. The results show that the institutions designed to enforce bipartisan consensus beyo…
Testing legislative shirking in a new setting: The case of lame duck sessions in the Korean National Assembly
This paper aims to test two types of legislative shirking in a new democracy, South Korea. Using the lame-duck sessions of the Korean National Assembly, we test whether a legislator shirks in voting participation and in voting decisions. We weave two competing motivations of legislative shirking in voting participation – that to secure more leisure time and that to utilize the last, valuable voting opportunity – into a synthetic hypothesis and te…
Traditional Gender Gap in a Modernized Society: Gender Dynamics in Voter Turnout in Korea
Military Rule in South Korea Revisited: Different Survival Strategies and Different Pathways
This paper revisits the military rule in Korea by paying attention, like Korean specialists, to the disconnection in dictatorship but like comparativists, using the tools in comparative studies of modern authoritarian regimes. This paper argues that the differences in the military leaders' orientations (personalist vs. party-based type) and survival strategies to deal with potential threat sources (key insiders, political opponents, and economic …
Predicting the 21st General Election Results Through Polling-Based Methods
This paper attempts to derive broad inferences about the 21st General Election through polling-based methods. Despite the challenges (e.g., small populations, in-person campaigns constrained by the gravity of COVID-19, the period of prohibition on publication of survey results), this paper predicts the election results by using various analytical techniques and statistical models including the Bayesian predictive model. Overall, the predictive mo…
Who Takes the Japanese Threat Seriously? A Survey‐Based Analysis of South Koreans’ Perceptions
This study explores the factors underlying South Koreans' negative perceptions of Japan beyond nationalism or simple partisan conflict. This paper employed the 2020 Korea Institute for National Unification survey, and statistical models revealed that the following factors are related to fundamental threat perception. First, the utility of Korean unification is associated with perceptions of the military threat posed by Japan. Second, after contro…
When legislators responded to news media surveys: Unstable responses, missing not at random responses, and self-censorship
Exploring public attitudes toward integration with an underdeveloped entity: Rationality, ideological orientations, and ethnic identity
Beyond generational discourse: An age-period-cohort analysis of South Koreans’ attitudes toward reunification with North Korea
This study conducts age-period-cohort analyses of South Koreans' attitudes toward reunification with North Korea, a hostile polity that shares a national identity, using the Korea Institute for National Unification survey data accumulated since 2014. It is found that the attitudes toward unification, in general, vary with age. Older respondents tend to show a greater need for unification, a weaker orientation toward peaceful coexistence, and a gr…
Social psychological explanations of democratic public’s attitudes towards China, a non-democratic superpower: Evidence from South Korea
This study examines public attitudes in a democratic state toward China as a non-democratic superpower within a social psychological framework. Employing 2021 survey data from South Korea, it investigates how ideological orientations—right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)—along with historically rooted national images of China shape attitudes toward China-related issues. The key findings are as follows: (1) Prefe…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (4 works) · Legislature (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)