Yushim Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3893804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yushim Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yushim |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4728-9588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urban Neighborhoods with Greater Access but Less Use of Nearby Parks: Case of Los Angeles, California
We examine the relationship between urban residents’ access and use of nearby green spaces, recognizing that this link can vary across neighborhoods. Our study integrates park data from the Trust for Public Land and population mobility data from SafeGraph for the Los Angeles urban area. Using geographically weighted regression (GWR) and multiscale GWR (MGWR), we identify neighborhoods with high park accessibility but significantly lower usage. A …
Connecting park access and use data for equitable environmental planning
To ensure equity in the provisioning of urban green spaces, both how green spaces are distributed (i.e., access) as well as whether residents are utilizing them (i.e., use) needs to be considered simultaneously. Yet, few green space equity studies have considered both access and use together, and the fragmented literature provides only a partial view of each. This disconnection partly lies in challenges in integrating disparate “access” and “use”…
Administrative Decision-Making with Generative AI: The Challenge of Epistemic Boundedness
This essay reframes administrative decision-making in the generative AI era by identifying how epistemic constraints rather than traditional information constraints shape administrative rationality. We introduce the concept of epistemic boundedness: the inability to verify the veracity and foundations of available information. Large language models (LLMs) exemplify this challenge through their opaque reasoning processes and tendency to produce pl…
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona
The green space dilemma: Pathways to greening with and without gentrification
Green gentrification posits that urban greening initiatives (e.g., large new parks) can fuel gentrification. To help cities avoid this greening dilemma, this study examines the conditions under which urban greening did or did not promote neighborhood gentrification in Chicago from 2010 to 2020. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we find that a large new park alone did not cause gentrification, but it did when located within areas experiencin…
Green space access and visitation disparities in the phoenix metropolitan area
Governor's political affiliation and stringent Covid ‐19 policy
The political affiliation of governors has been highlighted as the most important predictor of a state's aggressiveness in responding to the pandemic, that is, Democratic governors advocated for more stringent policies than their Republican counterparts. However, of the 39 states that issued a statewide stay‐at‐home order (SAHO) mandate, nearly half were led by Republican governors. Using a qualitative comparative analysis, we find that gubernato…
Are global cities homogenizing? An assessment of urban form and heat island implications
Administration of Community Participation in Small-Scale Projects: Brownfield Remediation in Los Angeles
This study examines when and how community involvement occurs in the remediation processes of brownfield sites in Los Angeles County, California. Although community participation is usually considered important for determining what happens with these sites, our results indicate that, except in sometimes triggering evaluation by alerting authorities about it, community involvement almost never occurs when important decisions are made. Participatio…
From Uncoordinated Patchworks to a Coordinated System: Mers-CoV to Covid-19 in Korea
South Korea has experienced two national public health crises during this decade. The 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) response’s failure to address coordination problems or authority conflicts provided an opportunity to revise its national disease control system before the 2020 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. Our reflection on Korea’s MERS-CoV and COVID-19 responses provides a perspective on public health …
Public health emergency response coordination: Putting the plan into practice
Insufficient specifications about public health emergency coordination involving government entities have been criticized as a contributing factor in managerial and institutional shortcomings. In response, this study analyzed the coordination plan and actions taken during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. Using network data, we found a low congruence between the planned response coordination…
Community Analysis of a Crisis Response Network
This article distinguishes between clique family subgroups and communities in a crisis response network. Then, we examine the way organizations interacted to achieve a common goal by employing community analysis of an epidemic response network in Korea in 2015. The results indicate that the network split into two groups: core response communities in one group and supportive functional communities in the other. The core response communities includ…
Revisiting environmental inequity in Southern California: Does environmental risk increase in ethnically homogeneous or mixed communities
This study revisits the concept of environmental inequity in Southern California using the California Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent data and spatial models. Empirical studies in the late 1990s documented the existence of environmental inequity among disadvantaged populations in the area, and we still found evidence of environmental inequity. However, our findings were more nuanced and subtler than previous results. The risk of bei…
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
Special issue on internet plus government: New opportunities to solve public problems
Rethinking Social Welfare Fraud from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Despite efforts to control fraud in public assistance programs, the perception and realities of the problem persist. Serious barriers related to data collection and research methods impede the understanding of how and why fraud occurs, thereby limiting options for improving program integrity. This article argues that based on a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective, social welfare fraud can be understood as a collective outcome emerging from…
The internet, citizens, and public policy
This special issue includes six of the best papers from the 17th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2016) that explore the intersection among the Internet, citizens, and public policy. As a theme, these papers ask how citizens and governments deliberate, engage, an d interact in online spaces related to public policy and problems. The studies present two noteworthy observations on this theme. First, public delibe…
Community Privilege and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Analysis
Several theories compete to explain observed race- and ethnicity-based environmental injustice in society. This paper focuses on analyzing the extent to which firms' siting decisions based on community privilege can explain this outcome. A unique feature of this analysis is that we include analysis of both unwanted land uses (disamenity firms) and desired land uses (amenity firms). The environmental justice analysis of amenities other than green …
Open government process and government transparency in crisis communication: The case of AirAsia QZ8501 crash
This paper explores antecedents of the public's perception of government crisis communication transparency during the 2014 AirAsia QZ8501 crash, which was characterized by hyper-unknown and hyper-uncertainty. A model of government crisis communication transparency was developed to identify known an tecedents. The authors collected and analyzed special issue news reports on the 2014 AirAsia QZ8501 crash from the detik.com website. There were 328 a…
Investment uncertainty analysis for smart grid adoption: A real options approach
The growth of smart grid technologies is already defining energy in the 21st century: smart cities depend on the smart grid for resilient energy delivery and improved energy efficiency. Adopting the smart grid under conditions of uncertainty demands focused attention and innovative approaches. This paper employs the Real Options Approach (ROA) to study how utilities make investment decisions regarding smart grid information technology innovation,…
The client-consultant relationship in ERP implementation in government: Exploring the dynamic between power and knowledge
This article investigates the client-consultant relationship in the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) using a case study of the human resource model in the government of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. To understand this relatio
Wicked problems in real time: Uncertainty, information, and the escalation of Ebola
The escalation of Ebola from December, 2013 - December, 2014, represents a classic wicked problem. Logical steps taken to limit the disease encountered unexpected responses and failed to curb the rapidly escalating transmission. As Ebola escalated, t
Digital government and wicked problems
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Digital government and wicked problems: Solution or problem
The theme of the 16th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2015) - ''Digital Government and Wicked Problems'' - drew attention to the increasingly complex global problems we are facing today. In the late 1960s, the term ''wicked problems'' was coined to refer to societal and public planning problems that had no definitive solutions [1,2]. Many problems, such as those identified in the theme of the conference - climate cha…
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Special issue on internet plus government: New opportunities to solve public problems
Governor's political affiliation and stringent Covid ‐19 policy
The political affiliation of governors has been highlighted as the most important predictor of a state's aggressiveness in responding to the pandemic, that is, Democratic governors advocated for more stringent policies than their Republican counterparts. However, of the 39 states that issued a statewide stay‐at‐home order (SAHO) mandate, nearly half were led by Republican governors. Using a qualitative comparative analysis, we find that gubernato…
Residential Choice Constraints and Environmental Justice
Objective In the environmental justice literature, uncertainty exists about the underlying causes of environmental risk disparities, especially as they relate to residential choices. To simplify, the two dominant views are racism/discrimination versus inevitable market dynamics. In this article, we move aside from these to examine the potential role of various residential choice constraints on environmental injustice and how they may be interrela…
The wicked problem of commercial value creation in open data ecosystems: Policy guidelines for governments
Creating commercial value through open data use in open data ecosystems is a wicked problem. This problem is characterized by a lack of specific formulation, complex interactions amongst a variety of stakeholders, a lack of criteria determining a satisfactory solution, including what constitutes `value', and uncertain outcomes. Wicked problems cannot be solved by only considering part of the problem. Yet, open data efforts all too often focus mai…
From Uncoordinated Patchworks to a Coordinated System: Mers-CoV to Covid-19 in Korea
South Korea has experienced two national public health crises during this decade. The 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) response’s failure to address coordination problems or authority conflicts provided an opportunity to revise its national disease control system before the 2020 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. Our reflection on Korea’s MERS-CoV and COVID-19 responses provides a perspective on public health …
Digital government and wicked problems: Solution or problem
The theme of the 16th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2015) - ''Digital Government and Wicked Problems'' - drew attention to the increasingly complex global problems we are facing today. In the late 1960s, the term ''wicked problems'' was coined to refer to societal and public planning problems that had no definitive solutions [1,2]. Many problems, such as those identified in the theme of the conference - climate cha…
The green space dilemma: Pathways to greening with and without gentrification
Green gentrification posits that urban greening initiatives (e.g., large new parks) can fuel gentrification. To help cities avoid this greening dilemma, this study examines the conditions under which urban greening did or did not promote neighborhood gentrification in Chicago from 2010 to 2020. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we find that a large new park alone did not cause gentrification, but it did when located within areas experiencin…
Are global cities homogenizing? An assessment of urban form and heat island implications
Digital government and wicked problems
Using Bayesian Methods to Control for Spatial Autocorrelation in Environmental Justice Research: An Illustration Using Toxics Release Inventory Data for a Sunbelt County
Many previous environmental justice (EJ) studies have argued that there is disproportionate collocation of environmental disamenities with racial and ethnic minorities, even holding constant other factors such as income and political action. However, most of the EJ studies do not account for the presence of spatial autocorrelation, especially those that also include nonnormal distributions. Using the location of new Toxics Release Inventory facil…
Using Spatial Analysis for Monitoring Fraud in a Public Delivery Program
In this article, fraud in public delivery programs is approached using spatial analysis. By examining welfare recipients' consumer behaviors in a spatial framework, it is possible to identify stores that draw an anomalous clientele, such as those who travel long distances and avoid stores in their local area, indicating that these stores may be committing fraud. This article shows how this idea can be operationalized for monitoring fraud to secur…
Administration of Community Participation in Small-Scale Projects: Brownfield Remediation in Los Angeles
This study examines when and how community involvement occurs in the remediation processes of brownfield sites in Los Angeles County, California. Although community participation is usually considered important for determining what happens with these sites, our results indicate that, except in sometimes triggering evaluation by alerting authorities about it, community involvement almost never occurs when important decisions are made. Participatio…
Rethinking Social Welfare Fraud from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Despite efforts to control fraud in public assistance programs, the perception and realities of the problem persist. Serious barriers related to data collection and research methods impede the understanding of how and why fraud occurs, thereby limiting options for improving program integrity. This article argues that based on a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective, social welfare fraud can be understood as a collective outcome emerging from…
Community Privilege and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Analysis
Several theories compete to explain observed race- and ethnicity-based environmental injustice in society. This paper focuses on analyzing the extent to which firms' siting decisions based on community privilege can explain this outcome. A unique feature of this analysis is that we include analysis of both unwanted land uses (disamenity firms) and desired land uses (amenity firms). The environmental justice analysis of amenities other than green …
Symposium on Policy Informatics: Symposium on Policy Informatics
An Empirical Examination of Validity in Evaluation
This study addresses validity issues in evaluation that stem from Ernest R. House’s book, Evaluating With Validity. The authors examine American Journal of Evaluation articles from 1980 to 2010 that report the results of policy and program evaluations. The authors classify these evaluations according to House’s “major approaches” typology (Systems Analysis, Behavioral Objectives, Decision making, Goal-free, Professional Review, Art Criticism, Qua…
Incorporating Policy Criteria in Spatial Analysis
Although spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become prevalent in the social and policy sciences, GIS and its mapmaking capability remains an underutilized tool among the decision support tools available to policy makers. Using a case study of Medicaid expenditure changes in Ohio, the authors demonstrate how spatial analysis and display can incorporate useful weights for policy makers. Through the use of dependence indic…
A study of the digital divide in the current phase of the information age: The moderating effect of smartphones
In this study, we evaluate the digital divide in a Korean context, where most people own smartphones. Specifically, we seek to understand how the proliferation of smartphones affects the digital divide across particular demographic categories. The in
Local Zoning and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Model Analysis
This article presents an agent-based computational analysis of the effects of externality zoning on environmental justice (EJ). We experiment with two ideal types of externality zoning: proactive and reactive. In the absence of zoning, environmental injustice emerges and minority agents have lower average environmental quality than majority agents. With proactive zoning, which allows polluting firms only in designated zones, EJ problems are less …
Using Spatial Analysis for Monitoring Fraud in a Public Delivery Program
In this article, fraud in public delivery programs is approached using spatial analysis. By examining welfare recipients' consumer behaviors in a spatial framework, it is possible to identify stores that draw an anomalous clientele, such as those who travel long distances and avoid stores in their local area, indicating that these stores may be committing fraud. This article shows how this idea can be operationalized for monitoring fraud to secur…
Incorporating Policy Criteria in Spatial Analysis
Although spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become prevalent in the social and policy sciences, GIS and its mapmaking capability remains an underutilized tool among the decision support tools available to policy makers. Using a case study of Medicaid expenditure changes in Ohio, the authors demonstrate how spatial analysis and display can incorporate useful weights for policy makers. Through the use of dependence indic…
Mobilization via Frustration: A Minnowbrook III Tradition
(2009). Mobilization via Frustration: A Minnowbrook III Tradition? Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 116-118
Decisions in Research Review Boards: The Roles of Individual Characteristics and Communication Medium
This article examines how individual characteristics and choice of communication medium influence the acceptance of research proposals by institutional review boards. Lab experiments were used to assess subject decisions in simulated review board processes regarding four mock research proposals. Results indicate that participants were less likely to approve risky scientific research proposals than those with lower risk and fewer ethical issues, b…
An Empirical Examination of Validity in Evaluation
This study addresses validity issues in evaluation that stem from Ernest R. House’s book, Evaluating With Validity. The authors examine American Journal of Evaluation articles from 1980 to 2010 that report the results of policy and program evaluations. The authors classify these evaluations according to House’s “major approaches” typology (Systems Analysis, Behavioral Objectives, Decision making, Goal-free, Professional Review, Art Criticism, Qua…
Using Bayesian Methods to Control for Spatial Autocorrelation in Environmental Justice Research: An Illustration Using Toxics Release Inventory Data for a Sunbelt County
Many previous environmental justice (EJ) studies have argued that there is disproportionate collocation of environmental disamenities with racial and ethnic minorities, even holding constant other factors such as income and political action. However, most of the EJ studies do not account for the presence of spatial autocorrelation, especially those that also include nonnormal distributions. Using the location of new Toxics Release Inventory facil…
Modeling Sanction Choices on Fraudulent Benefit Exchanges in Public Service Delivery
Public service delivery programs are not free from players' opportunistic behaviors, such as fraudulent benefit exchanges. The standard methods used to detect such misbehaviors are static, less effective in uncovering interactions between corrupt agents, and easy to evade because of corrupt agents' familiarity with detection procedures. Current fraud detection efforts do not match the dynamics and adaptive processes they are supposed to monitor a…
Local Zoning and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Model Analysis
This article presents an agent-based computational analysis of the effects of externality zoning on environmental justice (EJ). We experiment with two ideal types of externality zoning: proactive and reactive. In the absence of zoning, environmental injustice emerges and minority agents have lower average environmental quality than majority agents. With proactive zoning, which allows polluting firms only in designated zones, EJ problems are less …
Residential Choice Constraints and Environmental Justice
Objective In the environmental justice literature, uncertainty exists about the underlying causes of environmental risk disparities, especially as they relate to residential choices. To simplify, the two dominant views are racism/discrimination versus inevitable market dynamics. In this article, we move aside from these to examine the potential role of various residential choice constraints on environmental injustice and how they may be interrela…
Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities: Insights from Agent-Based Modeling
Symposium on Policy Informatics: Symposium on Policy Informatics
Open government process and government transparency in crisis communication: The case of AirAsia QZ8501 crash
This paper explores antecedents of the public's perception of government crisis communication transparency during the 2014 AirAsia QZ8501 crash, which was characterized by hyper-unknown and hyper-uncertainty. A model of government crisis communication transparency was developed to identify known an tecedents. The authors collected and analyzed special issue news reports on the 2014 AirAsia QZ8501 crash from the detik.com website. There were 328 a…
Investment uncertainty analysis for smart grid adoption: A real options approach
The growth of smart grid technologies is already defining energy in the 21st century: smart cities depend on the smart grid for resilient energy delivery and improved energy efficiency. Adopting the smart grid under conditions of uncertainty demands focused attention and innovative approaches. This paper employs the Real Options Approach (ROA) to study how utilities make investment decisions regarding smart grid information technology innovation,…
The client-consultant relationship in ERP implementation in government: Exploring the dynamic between power and knowledge
This article investigates the client-consultant relationship in the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) using a case study of the human resource model in the government of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. To understand this relatio
Wicked problems in real time: Uncertainty, information, and the escalation of Ebola
The escalation of Ebola from December, 2013 - December, 2014, represents a classic wicked problem. Logical steps taken to limit the disease encountered unexpected responses and failed to curb the rapidly escalating transmission. As Ebola escalated, t
Digital government and wicked problems
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Digital government and wicked problems: Solution or problem
The theme of the 16th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2015) - ''Digital Government and Wicked Problems'' - drew attention to the increasingly complex global problems we are facing today. In the late 1960s, the term ''wicked problems'' was coined to refer to societal and public planning problems that had no definitive solutions [1,2]. Many problems, such as those identified in the theme of the conference - climate cha…
The wicked problem of commercial value creation in open data ecosystems: Policy guidelines for governments
Creating commercial value through open data use in open data ecosystems is a wicked problem. This problem is characterized by a lack of specific formulation, complex interactions amongst a variety of stakeholders, a lack of criteria determining a satisfactory solution, including what constitutes `value', and uncertain outcomes. Wicked problems cannot be solved by only considering part of the problem. Yet, open data efforts all too often focus mai…
A study of the digital divide in the current phase of the information age: The moderating effect of smartphones
In this study, we evaluate the digital divide in a Korean context, where most people own smartphones. Specifically, we seek to understand how the proliferation of smartphones affects the digital divide across particular demographic categories. The in
The internet, citizens, and public policy
This special issue includes six of the best papers from the 17th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2016) that explore the intersection among the Internet, citizens, and public policy. As a theme, these papers ask how citizens and governments deliberate, engage, an d interact in online spaces related to public policy and problems. The studies present two noteworthy observations on this theme. First, public delibe…
Community Privilege and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Analysis
Several theories compete to explain observed race- and ethnicity-based environmental injustice in society. This paper focuses on analyzing the extent to which firms' siting decisions based on community privilege can explain this outcome. A unique feature of this analysis is that we include analysis of both unwanted land uses (disamenity firms) and desired land uses (amenity firms). The environmental justice analysis of amenities other than green …
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
Special issue on internet plus government: New opportunities to solve public problems
Rethinking Social Welfare Fraud from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Despite efforts to control fraud in public assistance programs, the perception and realities of the problem persist. Serious barriers related to data collection and research methods impede the understanding of how and why fraud occurs, thereby limiting options for improving program integrity. This article argues that based on a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective, social welfare fraud can be understood as a collective outcome emerging from…
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