Heon Lee
Graduate Student
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Heon Lee is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. Before he joined the University of Delaware, Heon earned an MA (2020) and a BA (2018) in political science from Seoul National University. His research endeavors seek to explain citizens' political behaviors with a rigorous and scientific approach. Furthermore, in a normative sense, Heon aspires to contribute to fostering solidarity amongst citizens in an era of economic and social insecurity, thereby enhancing societal inclusivity.
Heon has investigated how labor market (or welfare) structures surrounding workers and their corresponding experiences at work may influence the perceptions and beliefs of laborers regarding political matters. For instance, Heon is currently working on a paper examining the impact of encountering undemocratic arrangements within workplaces (including workplace abuse) on workers' authoritarian/anti-democratic attitudes. Additionally, he is researching how occupational discrepancies - e.g., variations in skills, task structures, or employment status - are linked to laborers' attitudes towards alternative schemes for allocating public resources.
In an ancillary pursuit, Heon has examined how memory struggles related to the 5.18 democratization uprising - which holds personal significance as it occurred in his hometown Gwangju in 1980 - have shaped the landscapes of political party preferences in South Korea.
Research Fields
Political Psychology; Political Behavior; Comparative Political Economy; Labor Politics; Political Methodology; Causal Inference.
Research Paper
“The Big 5 Personality Traits and The Symbolic Ideology of American Voters” Presented at MPSA 2019 annual conference.
This
paper examines how the Big Five personality traits explain the
differences between individuals’ “operational ideology” (based on their
policy preferences) and their own self-reported “symbolic ideology.”
Using ANES 2016 Time Series Study data, the study finds that three
traits, Openness to Experiences, Consci- entiousness, and Extroversion,
explain them: 1) Voters high on Openness tend to report their
ideological positions consistent with overall policy preferences
constructed by their enhanced political sophistication. 2) Those high on
Extro- version are likely to avouch their own ideological position
more assertively, even though it is discrepant with their operational
ideology.
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