DONG-WOOK LEE Curriculum Vitae 111 S. College Ave, B305 (814) 574-9460 Claremont, CA 91711 dong-wook.lee@cgu.edu http://dwleecgu.wordpress.com EDUCATION Ph.D. Politics and Policy. Field Concentrations: Comparative Politics, Quantitative Research Methods (Specialized in Multilevel Modeling) Dissertation Title: Linking Regional Income Inequality to Redistributive Policies A Spatial Concept of Redistributive Government Spending. Dissertation Committee: Eunyoung Ha (Chair), Jennifer Merolla, Melissa Rogers, Luciana Dar (Graduate School of Education, UC-Riverside) June 2015 (expected), State College May 2008 M.A. (Concentration in IR), Political Science. Thesis Title: Dictatorial Institutions and Economic Variances: An Empirical Reassessment of the Comparative Political Economy of Authoritarian Regimes. Thesis Committee: Gretchen Casper (Chair), Douglas Lemke, Quan Li University of Chicago August 2004 M.A. International Studies Thesis (Honor) Title: How do Institutions Engender Cooperation between Egoistic States who do not Trust Each Other? State-centric Views on Institutionalizing Global Access to Telecommunication Resources. Thesis Committee: Duncan Snidal (Chair), Mark Ashley Yale University May 2003 M.A.R., Ethics, Yale Divinity School University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2000 B.A., with Dean s List, Political Science ADDITIONAL EDUCATION (SUMMER INSTITUTE) Empirical Implication of Theoretical Model (EITM), U. of Houston, Houston, TX. 2014 Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR), U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2006 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Comparative Politics: Comparative Political Economy, Globalization & Welfare Spending, Government Ideology & Financial Crisis, Politics of Inequality & Government Finance, State Budget for Higher
Curriculum Vitae Dong-wook Lee - 2 - Education, Comparative Politics of Asia and Latin America, Politics of Economic Development in Developing Countries, Democratization, Authoritarian Politics. Research Methods: Quantitative Research Methods, Multilevel Modeling, Spatial Econometrics, Simulations, and Game Theory. International Relations: Theories of International Relations, Institutional Cooperation, International Organizations, International Political Economy. PUBLICATIONS Referred Journal Articles: Dar, Luciana and Dong-wook Lee. 2014. Partisanship, Political Polarization, and State Higher Education Budget Outcomes. Journal of Higher Education, 85(4): 469-498. Ha, Eunyoung, Dong-wook Lee, and Puspa Amri. 2014. Trade and Welfare Compensation: The Missing Links. International Interactions. 40: 631-656. Nominated for the Robert H. Durr Award (Midwest Political Science Association) for the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem. Under Review: Lee, Dong-wook and Melissa Rogers. Comparing Inequalities: Regional and Interpersonal Income Disparity and Government Spending. WORKING PAPERS Research on Developed Countries: Dar, Luciana, Ray Franke, and Dong-wook Lee. Revisiting the Political Economy of State Support for Higher Education: Evidence from a New Unifying Measure for the American States (Paper in process). Lee, Dong-wook. A Political Economy of Sectoral Public Education Spending (1991-2005): Partisan Politics Revisited in Industrialized Democracies (Paper in draft). Lee, Dong-wook and Melissa Rogers. Uneven Development, Unequal Education: The Divergent Effect of Federalism on Education Spending (Paper in draft). Rogers, Melissa and Dong-wook Lee. Electoral Geography, Inequality, and Representation (Paper in draft). Research on Developing Countries: Ha, Eunyoung and Dong-wook Lee, The Impact of Government Ideology and Exchange Rate Regime on Currency Crisis (Paper in draft). Ha, Eunyoung, Dong-wook Lee, and Jennifer Merolla. Globalization and Citizens Political Ideology (Paper in process).
Curriculum Vitae Dong-wook Lee - 3 - Rogers, Melissa and Dong-wook Lee. Policy Priorities in the Argentine Provinces (Paper in process). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS 2014 International Studies Association West Annual Conference The Impact of Government Ideology and Exchange Rate Regime on Currency Crisis (with Eunyoung Ha) 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Regional Income Inequality, Federalism, and Redistributive Spending Policy 2014 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Regional Inequality, Federalism, and Public Education Spending Politically-salient Inequality: Electoral Rules and Government Spending (with Melissa Rogers) 2013 Southern California Comparative Political Institution Meeting The Impacts of Government Ideology, Capital Openness, and Exchange Rate Regime on Currency Crisis (with Eunyoung Ha and Puspa Amri) 2013 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Globalization and Electoral Politics in Developing Countries (with Eunyoung Ha and Jennifer Merolla) 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Regional Inequality and Government Spending (with Melissa Rogers) 2013 Tuesday Political Economy Lunch Group, Department of Political Science, UC-San Diego Electoral Geography, Inequality, and Representation (with Melissa Rogers) 2013 International Studies Association Annual Meeting The Role of Domestic Political Institutions in Recovery from Financial Crises (with Eunyoung Ha and Puspa Amri) 2012 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Uneven Development, Unequal Education: The Divergent Effects of Federalism on Education Spending (with Melissa Rogers) 2012 International Studies Association Annual Meeting A Political Economy of Sectoral Public Education Spending (1991-2005): Partisan Politics Revisited in Industrialized Democracies. 2012 School of Politics and Economics Tuesday Lunch Talk Series, Higher Learning for All? The Effects of Federalism on Education Spending in Regionally Disparate Nations (with Melissa Rogers) 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Government Resources to Financial Crises: Identifying Patterns and Policy Origins (with Eunyoung Ha, Myung-kook Kang, and Puspa Amri) 2011 International Studies Association Annual Meeting Revisiting the Globalization-Welfare Nexus: A Multi-level Data Analysis (with Eunyoung Ha and Puspa Amri) 2010 International Studies Association West Conference A Proposal to Rethinking of Government Ideology Effects in the Comparative Contexts of Secotral Public Education Spending. 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Framing Locally a Global Trend of Public Education Investment Choices: Impacts of Democratization and Trade Openness. 2009 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Does Cooperation under Dictatorships Breed Good Economic Performances? Bring Regime Classifications Back In. 2009 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting Dictatorial Institutions and Economic Variance: An Empirical Reassessment of the Comparative Political Economy of Authoritarian Regimes.
Curriculum Vitae Dong-wook Lee - 4 - OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Data Analysis: Topics: Globalization, Partisan Politics, Income Inequality, Public Finance, US State Appropriation for Higher Education. Research Assistant to: Prof. Eunyoung Ha (Spring 2009-Currrent), Prof. Melissa Rogers (Summer 2012- Current), Prof Luciana Dar (Summer 2009 Current). Survey / Archival Data Collection: Topics: Immigration Policies, Democratic Diffusion in East Asia, Terrorist Organizations Research Assistant to: Prof. Gyeong-ho Jeong (Summer 2009 Spring 2010), Prof. David Arase (Spring 2009 Fall 2010), Prof. Navin Bapat (Fall 2006). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor: SPE 485: Computer Applications for Social Science Research Spring 2013, Fall 2014 Graduate-level Method course of my own design focusing on advanced applied econometrics. Intensive statistical programming course using R and Stata. Worked with students individual learning needs to improve their data analyses. Teaching Assistant: TNDY 405 (Trans-disciplinary Course): Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality Fall 2014 Instructor: Melissa Rogers PP481: Quantitative Research Methods Fall 2011, Fall 2013 Instructors: Jacob Leos-Urbel (Fall 2011), Heather Campbell (Fall 2013) PP482: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods Spring 2011, Spring 2012 Instructors: Gyung-Ho Jeong (Spring 2011), Heather Campbell (Spring 2012) PLSC014: Introduction to International Relations Spring 2007, Spring 2008 Instructors: Douglas Lemke (Spring 2007) and Tamara London (Spring 2008) PLSC020: Comparative Politics of Western Europe Fall 2007 Instructor: Shane Martin PLSC 003: Introduction to Comparative Politics Spring 2006, Fall 2006 Instructors: Shane Martin (Spring 2006), Michael Bernhard (Fall 2006).
Curriculum Vitae Dong-wook Lee - 5 - GRANTS, FELLOWSHIP, AND HONORS Institute for Humane Studies Conference Grant ($350), George Mason Univ. Dissertation Research Grant ($10,000), Claremont Graduate Univ. 2014 2014-2015 National Science Foundation Grant ($2,000), EITM Summer Program, Univ. of Houston. 2014 Research Assistant Fellowship, Department of Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate Univ. 2009-2014 Graduate Student Council Travel Award ($300), Claremont Graduate Univ. 2012, 2013 Graduate Tuition Fellowship, Claremont Graduate Univ. 2009-2011 College of Liberal Arts Scholar Fellowship, Pennsylvania State Univ. 2005-2008 Master s Thesis (Evaluation with Honor), Univ. of Chicago. 2004 Two Brothers Fellowship for Language Training in German, Yale Divinity School. 2002 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Dept. of East Asian Language and Literature, Yale Univ. 2001-2002 Dean s Distinguished List, School of Letters and Science, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. 2000 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association Southern California Comparative Political Institutions International Studies Association SKILLS Software: R, Stata, E-view, Gauss, LaTeX Languages: Korean (Native), English (fluent), German (basic), Japanese (basic) REFERENCES Eunyoung Ha (Advisor, Committee chair) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Politics and Policy eunyoung.ha@cgu.edu Jennifer Merolla (Committee member) Associate Professor, Dept. of Politics and Policy jennifer.merolla@cgu.edu Gyung-Ho Jeong Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science University of British Columbia gyung-ho.jeong@ubc.edu Melissa Rogers (Committee member) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Politics and Policy melissa.rogers@cgu.edu Luciana Dar (Committee member) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education University of California Riverside luciana.dar@ucr.edu Gretchen Casper Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science ggc3@psu.edu