WOOJIN MOON Faculty Fellow Department of Political Science University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0521 E-mail: wmoon@weber.ucsd.edu URL: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~wmoon/ Fax: (858) 534-7130 EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D., Department of Political Science, UCLA 1997 M.A., Department of Political Science, UCLA 1994 M.A., Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis 1989 B.A., Department of Political Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea 1987 B.A., Department of Architecture, Korea University, Seoul, Korea RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Comparative Politics: Comparative institutions (Electoral laws, Campaign laws, and Party regulation laws) Theory of democracy and democratic institutions The U.S. and East Asian Countries (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) Formal Theory: Game Theory and Spatial Models Quantitative Methods: OLS, OLS Diagnostics, 2SLS, Time-series, Panel Data, MLE (Logit, Probit, Tobit) AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2002 Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science, UCSD 2000 University Fellowship, Department of Political Science, UCLA 2000 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA 1999 Fee Award, Department of Political Science, UCLA 1997 Korean Foundation Fellowship, Korean Foundation, Seoul, Korea 1996 Korean Foundation Fellowship, Korean Foundation, Seoul, Korea 1996 University Fellowship, Department of Political Science, UCLA 1
PUBLICATIONS 2004 Party Activists, Campaign Resources, and Candidate Position Taking in U.S. Senate Elections, 1974-2000: Theory and Tests. Forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science. PAPERS UNDER REVIEW 2004 Decomposition of Regional Voting in South Korea: Ideological Conflicts and Regional Benefits. Revise and Resubmit. 2004 The Paradox of Less Efficient Incumbent Spending: Theory and Tests. 2004 A Theory of Non-Ideological Voting: The Effect of Party Polarization on Regional Voting in South Korea. WORK IN PROGRESS 2004 Political versus Market Transactions: Players, Products, and Political Institutions. 2004 Electoral Laws and the 17 th National Assembly Election in South Korea. WORK PROJECTS 2004 Political Transaction in Democratic Institutions: Theory, Evidence, and Implications. (book manuscript) SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS 2004 Strategic (Dis)Advantages of the Centrist Party in Position Taking: Downsian versus Political Transaction Models. Prepared for the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Section 4: Formal Political Theory, Panel 15: Why Politics Varies Across Countries? Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5. 2004 Party Activists, Campaign Resources, and Candidate Position Taking in U.S. Senate Elections, 1974-2000: Theory and Tests. Presented at the Asiatic Research Center, Korea University, Korea, January 16. 2003 A Theory of Regional Voting: Democratization and Regional Voting In South Korea. Presented at the International Studies and Overseas Programs, UCLA, January 30. 2002 Resource Constrained Electoral Competition: Theory and Tests. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Section 7: Elections, Voting Behavior, and Participation, Chicago, Illinois, April 25-28. 2002 The Paradox of Less Efficient Incumbent Spending: Theory and Tests. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Section 14: Formal Modeling, Chicago, Illinois, April 25-28. 2001 "The Impact of Leftist-Center Coalition and Electoral Systems on Welfare Development in 17 Democracies, 1970-1990." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Section 1: Comparative Politics, Panel M: Global Markets 2
and the Politics of Social Welfare Reform in Comparative Perspective, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2001. 2001 "Position versus Valence: A Formal Theory of Resource Constrained Electoral Competitions." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Section 13: Formal Modeling, Panel B: Campaigning and Voting, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2001. 2001 "Determinants of Candidates Policy Positions in the US Senate Elections, 1988-1992. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Emory University, GA, July 19-21. 2001 "The Impact of Leftist-Center Coalition and Electoral Systems on Welfare Development in 17 Democracies, 1970-1990." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Section 11: Comparative Politics, Panel 35: The Politics of Welfare Spending and Income Inequality, San Francisco, California, August 30- September 2. 2001 "The Calculus of Campaign Contributions and the Endogenous Resource-Constrained Electoral Competition Model." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association, Section M: Positive Political Theory, Panel 3: Modeling Partisan Outcomes and Redistributive Politics, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7-10. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Faculty Fellow Spring 2004 IRGN 484: Korean Politics, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC, San Spring 2004 PS 124A Political Consequences of Electoral Systems, Political Science, UC, San Spring 2003 PS 229 Comparative Institutional Analyses: Empirical and Formal Studies of Electoral Rules and Behavior, Political Science, UC, San Spring 2003 PS 124A Political Consequences of Electoral Systems, Political Science, UC, San Winter 2003 PS 133D: Political Institutions in East Asian Countries, Political Science, UC, San Teaching Fellow Spring 2000 Prof. Brain Lawson, Introduction to Political Economy, Political Science, UCLA. Special Reader Spring 1997 Prof. Mohan Penubarti, Statistical Methods II (Graduate), Political Science, UCLA. Teaching Associate Spring 1998 Prof. John Zaller, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. Winter 1998 Prof. Jim DeNardo, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. 3
Fall 1996 Prof. Rebecca Menes, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. Spring 1996 Prof. David Brown, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. Teaching Assistant Winter 1996 Prof. David Brown, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. Fall 1995 Prof. James DeNardo, Introduction to Quantitative Research, Political Science, UCLA. Spring 1993 Prof. Larry Berman, Basic Concepts in Political Theory, Political Science, UC, Davis. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Fall 2001-Spring 2002 Research Assistant, Prof. George Tsebelis, Political Science, UCLA. OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCE Winter 1993 Graduate Reader, Prof. John Roemer, Department of Economics, UC, Davis. PUBLICATION OF DATASETS Senate Election Data (1974-2000) (Senators Policy Positions, Vote Shares, Campaign Spending, Political Experience and other State Demographic and Economic Data): http://weber.ucsd.edu/~wmoon/polidata.html JOURNAL REFEREE APSR LANGUAGE SKILLS Korean (native), English (speaking, writing, reading), Japanese (reading) MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE Data Desk, Mathematica, SPSS, Stata, Xlisp-Stat 4
REFERENCES Professor George Tsebelis Professor John Zaller University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 tsebelis@ucla.edu zaller@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu (310) 825-5930 (310) 825-7527 Professor Gary Cox Professor Arend Lijphart University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0521 La Jolla, CA 92093-0521 gcox@ucsd.edu alijphart@ucsd.edu (858) 534-1428 (858) 534-3798 Professor James DeNardo Professor John E. Roemer University of California, Los Angeles Yale University & 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 Economics Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 PO Box 208301 jdenaldo@ucla.edu New Haven, CT 06520 (310) 825-1578 john.roemer@yale.edu (530) 752-0741 Professor Kathleen Bawn Professor Michael Chwe University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 kbawn@polisci.ucla.edu michael@chwe.net (310) 825-3676 (310) 267-1245 5