(Selected publications; please see Google Scholar or CV for the full list)
Peer-Reviewed Articles (within the last five years)
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.
Club approach to understanding climate policies and voluntary environmental initiatives
Accepted. Gateway clubs: How ESG indices reinforce transnational voluntary environmental initiatives. Global Environmental Politics. (Replication)
2025. Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities' membership in the 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)
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)
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 mitigation policies: Processes and outcomes
2026. 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. 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)
Electoral rewards for credit claims: The Inflation Reduction Act and the 2024 U.S. Congressional Election (R&R)
Wonderland or hinterland? Contested imaginaries of rural areas and renewable energy development (R&R)
Against all odds: How energy communities navigate centralized energy regimes through community wealth building (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
The drivers and effects of coalition instability
New wine in an old bottle: A critical analysis of South Korea's National Grid Expansion Act
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
What does it mean to be "Green?" The effect of regulatory burden on decarbonization trajectories in the American States