Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanghoon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim-Leffingwell |
| SIGNATURE | KIM-LEFFINGWELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5584-0491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Violence and Bias
Studies have discussed long-term effects of state-led violence on victims’ political attitudes and behaviors, but less is known about its impacts on those who sided with the perpetrators. We develop a theory of authoritarian indoctrination and cognitive dissonance that explains variation in outgroup intolerance among the majority group, focusing on the ethnic violence against Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority. Drawing upon unique survey data, w…
Authoritarian Nostalgia, Group Sentiment, and Voter Behavior
Money backfires
China has been expanding its global economic presence through foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and trade. China’s growing economic influence, however, is inviting worries and suspicion in many countries, leading to the rise of anti-China protests. How and when does China’s economic expansion promote anti-China protests? We explore this question by examining the effect of Chinese FDI on the rise of anti-China protests across 127 countries. …
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters
Nostalgic rhetoric has proven effectiveness among frustrated voters in democratic elections. Studies have introduced various measures for nostalgic sentiment, but the debate remains with regard to finding a suitable instrument. Using a social media approach, we propose a method to identify nostalgic rhetoric and investigate observable patterns, leveraging the Philippine presidential election in May 2022. We conduct text-as-data analysis and inves…
How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption
Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the loc…
Authoritarian Legacies and Partisan Bias in Corruption Voting
What explains the lack of electoral consequences for corrupt politicians? Building on studies of motivated reasoning and asymmetric partisan bias, this article highlights the importance of partisan differences in how voters interpret corruption convictions and make voting decisions. I contend that in post-authoritarian democracies, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties (ALPs) are less likely to punish corrupt copartisan incumbents compared t…
Personality traits, democratic support, and authoritarian nostalgia
Objective Why do democratic voters feel nostalgia for an authoritarian past? This article introduces a dispositional framework for authoritarian nostalgia, showing that in addition to situational factors, an enduring source of sentimental longing for the authoritarian past may very well be rooted in a person's core psychological structure. Methods I use mixed‐methods approach with data collection from South Korea and Taiwan. Using linear regressi…
Killing Protests with Kindness
Anti-China protests have posed challenges to China's ambition to further expand its political and economic influence globally. How does Beijing respond to anti-China protests? And how do anti-China protests affect Beijing's use of public diplomatic resources? We address these questions by examining the effect of anti-China protests on China's public diplomatic engagement across low- and middle-income countries in Asia. We argue that anti-China pr…
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism
How does an authoritarian past shape voters’ left-right orientation? Recent studies investigate “anti-dictator bias” in political ideology, where citizens in a former right-wing (left-wing) dictatorship may display a leftist (rightist) bias in their ideological self-identification. In this paper, I provide evidence for a “pro-dictator bias” where citizens hold ideological positions close to those of the dictator, depending on their experiences pr…
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism
How does an authoritarian past shape voters’ left-right orientation? Recent studies investigate “anti-dictator bias” in political ideology, where citizens in a former right-wing (left-wing) dictatorship may display a leftist (rightist) bias in their ideological self-identification. In this paper, I provide evidence for a “pro-dictator bias” where citizens hold ideological positions close to those of the dictator, depending on their experiences pr…
Personality traits, democratic support, and authoritarian nostalgia
Objective Why do democratic voters feel nostalgia for an authoritarian past? This article introduces a dispositional framework for authoritarian nostalgia, showing that in addition to situational factors, an enduring source of sentimental longing for the authoritarian past may very well be rooted in a person's core psychological structure. Methods I use mixed‐methods approach with data collection from South Korea and Taiwan. Using linear regressi…
Money backfires
China has been expanding its global economic presence through foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and trade. China’s growing economic influence, however, is inviting worries and suspicion in many countries, leading to the rise of anti-China protests. How and when does China’s economic expansion promote anti-China protests? We explore this question by examining the effect of Chinese FDI on the rise of anti-China protests across 127 countries. …
Authoritarian Nostalgia, Group Sentiment, and Voter Behavior
How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption
Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the loc…
Killing Protests with Kindness
Anti-China protests have posed challenges to China's ambition to further expand its political and economic influence globally. How does Beijing respond to anti-China protests? And how do anti-China protests affect Beijing's use of public diplomatic resources? We address these questions by examining the effect of anti-China protests on China's public diplomatic engagement across low- and middle-income countries in Asia. We argue that anti-China pr…
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters
Nostalgic rhetoric has proven effectiveness among frustrated voters in democratic elections. Studies have introduced various measures for nostalgic sentiment, but the debate remains with regard to finding a suitable instrument. Using a social media approach, we propose a method to identify nostalgic rhetoric and investigate observable patterns, leveraging the Philippine presidential election in May 2022. We conduct text-as-data analysis and inves…
Authoritarian Legacies and Partisan Bias in Corruption Voting
What explains the lack of electoral consequences for corrupt politicians? Building on studies of motivated reasoning and asymmetric partisan bias, this article highlights the importance of partisan differences in how voters interpret corruption convictions and make voting decisions. I contend that in post-authoritarian democracies, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties (ALPs) are less likely to punish corrupt copartisan incumbents compared t…
How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption
Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the loc…
Authoritarian Legacies and Partisan Bias in Corruption Voting
What explains the lack of electoral consequences for corrupt politicians? Building on studies of motivated reasoning and asymmetric partisan bias, this article highlights the importance of partisan differences in how voters interpret corruption convictions and make voting decisions. I contend that in post-authoritarian democracies, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties (ALPs) are less likely to punish corrupt copartisan incumbents compared t…
Personality traits, democratic support, and authoritarian nostalgia
Objective Why do democratic voters feel nostalgia for an authoritarian past? This article introduces a dispositional framework for authoritarian nostalgia, showing that in addition to situational factors, an enduring source of sentimental longing for the authoritarian past may very well be rooted in a person's core psychological structure. Methods I use mixed‐methods approach with data collection from South Korea and Taiwan. Using linear regressi…
Killing Protests with Kindness
Anti-China protests have posed challenges to China's ambition to further expand its political and economic influence globally. How does Beijing respond to anti-China protests? And how do anti-China protests affect Beijing's use of public diplomatic resources? We address these questions by examining the effect of anti-China protests on China's public diplomatic engagement across low- and middle-income countries in Asia. We argue that anti-China pr…
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism
How does an authoritarian past shape voters’ left-right orientation? Recent studies investigate “anti-dictator bias” in political ideology, where citizens in a former right-wing (left-wing) dictatorship may display a leftist (rightist) bias in their ideological self-identification. In this paper, I provide evidence for a “pro-dictator bias” where citizens hold ideological positions close to those of the dictator, depending on their experiences pr…
Money backfires
China has been expanding its global economic presence through foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and trade. China’s growing economic influence, however, is inviting worries and suspicion in many countries, leading to the rise of anti-China protests. How and when does China’s economic expansion promote anti-China protests? We explore this question by examining the effect of Chinese FDI on the rise of anti-China protests across 127 countries. …
Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters
Nostalgic rhetoric has proven effectiveness among frustrated voters in democratic elections. Studies have introduced various measures for nostalgic sentiment, but the debate remains with regard to finding a suitable instrument. Using a social media approach, we propose a method to identify nostalgic rhetoric and investigate observable patterns, leveraging the Philippine presidential election in May 2022. We conduct text-as-data analysis and inves…
Violence and Bias
Studies have discussed long-term effects of state-led violence on victims’ political attitudes and behaviors, but less is known about its impacts on those who sided with the perpetrators. We develop a theory of authoritarian indoctrination and cognitive dissonance that explains variation in outgroup intolerance among the majority group, focusing on the ethnic violence against Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority. Drawing upon unique survey data, w…
Authoritarian Nostalgia, Group Sentiment, and Voter Behavior
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Authoritarianism (5 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ideology (3 works)