Research

PUBLICATIONS

Same Policy, Different Dreams: Explaining the Variation in Local Net-zero Policy Stringency in South Korea (with Inhwan Ko and Gyuhwan Kim) Climate Policy, 2025, 1-15.

Translocal Climate Club as A Wall of Fame? A Panel Study on the US Cities’ Membership in Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014-2024 (with Inhwan Ko) Policy Sciences, 2025.

Cities’ Engagement in Global Climate Change Politics, University of Minnesota, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2025. 

WORKING PAPERS

The Causes and Consequences of Outsourcing Nationally Determined Contributions (with Tanisha Fazal and Maria Sanchez)

The Door Open, the Climb Steep: Drivers of Joining Versus Leveraging ICLEI across South Korean Localities (with Inhwan Ko)

Behind the Buzzword: Unpacking Non-State Actors in Climate Governance (with Yeeun Uhm)