Youngmi Kim

Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Youngmi has taught on East Asian politics, Europe-Asia relations, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Administration, Ethics and Public Policy, and China’s foreign policy. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. Her recent and forthcoming publications include The 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in South Korea' (forthcoming in Electoral Studies, 2014), ‘Between Institutions and Culture: The Politics of Coalition and Governability in South Korea’ (Routledge, 2011), Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008), and Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008, co-authored with F. Yap). At CEU Youngmi teaches courses on East Asia in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism in IRES, and Comparative Political Institutions and Global Cities in DPP. Youngmi is the Director of the Global E-School Project on Korean Studies in Eurasia (2012-2017), coordinated by CEU and funded by the Korea Foundation, and Co-Director of the 2013 Summer School on Comparative Regionalisms at CEU (http://summer.ceu.hu/comparative-2013).

Supervision
Youngmi is interested in supervising theses on comparative regionalism, the politics of East Asia (domestic and international), soft power in East Asia, internet activism and radicalism, party politics (organization and institutionalization), divided government, and voting behavior. 

Publications

2014 The 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in South Korea. Electoral Studies, 34(2), 326-330.
2012 Confucianism and Coalition Politics: Is Political Behavior in South Korea Irrational? Journal of Northeast Asian History, 9(2), 5-32.
2011 The Politics of Coalition and Governability in South Korea: Between Institutions and Culture: , London: Routledge.
2010 'Coalition Formation', in G. Kurian (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Political Science, APSA/CQ Press.
2010 South Korea: Political Dynamic sees Party Realignment. Oxford Analytica, 30 April.
2009 Digital Populism in South Korea? Internet Culture and the trouble with direct participation. Korea Economic Institute Academic Paper Series ‘On Korea 2009’, Washington DC, 2: 143-156. 
2008 'Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea', Japanese Journal of Political Science, 9(3), 367-398
2008 'Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility', Japanese Journal of Political Science, 9(3), 261-268 (co-authored with F. Yap).
2008 Fission, fusion, reform and failure: Roh Moo-hyun’s administration, in in Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares (eds) Korea Yearbook 2008, Leiden: Brill, 73-94.
2008 Explaining minority coalition government and governability in South Korea. Korea Observer, 39(1): 59-84.
2005 Coalition theories and the dynamics of coalition party politics in Japan and Korea. Papers of British Association for Korean Studies, 10: 165-184.

Courses taught:

AY 2013/14
Comparative Political Institutions (MA, Fall, DPP)
East Asia in International Relations (MA, Fall, IRES)

AY 2012/13
Comparative Political Institutions (MA, Fall, DPP)
East Asia in International Relations (MA, Fall, IRES)

AY 2011/12
East Asia in International Relations (MA, Fall, IRES)
Global Cities (MA, Winter, DPP)
Comparative Regionalism (MA, Fall, IRES)
Comparative Political Institutions (MA, Winter, DPP)

AY 2010/11
East Asia in International Relations (MA, Fall, IRES)
Ethics and Public Policy (MA, Fall, DPP)
Comparative Regional Integration (MA, Winter, IRES)
Regional Integration in East Asia (MA, Winter, DPP)
Public Administration (PhD, Winter, DPP)

AY 2009/10
East Asia in International Relations (MA, Winter, IRES)
Comparative Political Institutions (MA, Winter, DPP)
Public Administration (PhD, Winter, DPP)