(Selected publications; please see Google Scholar for the full list)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Renewable energy development: Technology acceptance and policy support
2025. Rural-urban divide in support for renewable energy policy: Evidence from Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard Ballot Initiative in 2020. Environmental Politics. (Replication)
2025. "Rural exploitation" in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas. Energy Research & Social Science. (Pre-Study) (Replication)
2023. Rural opposition to landscape change from solar energy: Explaining the diffusion of setback restrictions on solar farms across South Korean counties. Energy Research & Social Science. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes, Energy Daily News, and the Next Web)
2023. Wind turbines as new smokestacks: Preserving ruralness and restrictive land-use ordinances across U.S. counties. PLOS ONE. (Replication)
2023. Causal effects of place, people, and process on rooftop solar adoption through Bayesian Inference. Energy.
Renewable energy & climate change nexus
2026. Same policy, different dreams: Explaining the variation in local net-zero policy stringency in South Korea. Climate Policy. (Replication)
2026. Climate policy beliefs, not problem visibility, drive rural opposition to wind energy projects. Environmental Research Communications. (Pre-study) (Replication)
2025. Who supports climate mitigation through increasing renewable energy surcharge? Evidence from an online survey in South Korea. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. (Pre-study) (Replication)
2022. Have renewable energy leaders announced aggressive emission reduction goals? Examining the variations in the stringency of country-level net-zero emission pledges. PLOS Climate. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes, The Regulatory Review, Skeptical Science, and Reputation)
Climate change politics & policy
2025. Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities' membership in Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014-2024. Policy Sciences. (Replication)
2024. Stock markets, corporate climate pledges, and the Science-Based Target Initiative. npj Climate Action. (Replication) (Featured in The Regulatory Review)
2022. Signaling climate resilience to municipal bond markets: Does membership in adaptation-focused voluntary clubs affect bond rating? Climatic Change. (Replication) (Featured in Skeptical Science)
2022. Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European Countries, 1996-2014. Review of Policy Research. (Replication)
Working Papers (manuscript available upon request)
Gateway clubs: How ESG indices reinforce transnational voluntary environmental initiatives (R&R)
Electoral rewards for credit claims: The Inflation Reduction Act and the 2024 U.S. Congressional Election (R&R)
Against all odds: How energy communities navigate centralized energy regimes through community wealth building (Under review)
Wonderland or hinterland? Contested imaginaries of rural areas and renewable energy development (Under review)
Beyond membership: Climate-dedicated staff and policy outputs in transnational municipal networks (Under review)
From impeding to uplifting environmental justice research: How political science can support EJ scholarship and advance the discipline (w/ WPSA CJ/EJ VC)
The drivers and effects of coalition instability (w/ Elizabeth Koebele and Kristin Olofsson)
New wine in an old bottle: A critical analysis of South Korea's National Grid Expansion Act (w/ Jin Hee Park and Yoon Mie Soh)
Grounding perceptions of energy injustice in evidence: A case of South Korea's power grid infrastructure
Developer trust and community opposition to renewable energy projects
Speech diffusion in the South Korean legislative committees (w/ Jungbae An, Sinjae Kang, and Eunmi Cho)
What does it mean to be "Green?" The effect of regulatory burden on decarbonization trajectories in the American States (w/ Nicolas Wittstock)