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김서영 부교수 Kim, Seo Young (Associate Professor)

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FIELDS OF STUDY

  1. Political Theory & Meothodology 이론, 방법론

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  1. American Politics 미국정치

  2. Political Methodology 정치학 방법론

  3. Computational Social Sciences 계산사회과학

  4. Political Behavior 정치행태

  5. Elections 선거

  6. Election Administration 선거관리

  7. Money in Politics 정치자금

수급필요


국문

영문

 

 

학술 연구 및 기타
 

    [1] Atsusaka, Yuki, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2025. “Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences.” Political Analysis. 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.33 

    [2] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, and Zhao Li. 2025. “Keep Winning with WinRed? Digital Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good.” The Journal of Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/735435

    [3] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Akhil Bandreddi, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2024. “Partisanship is why people vote in person in a pandemic.” Social Science Quarterly. 105(4): 1042-60. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13380

    [4] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Jan Zilinsky, and Brian Brew. 2024. “Donate to Help Us Fight Back: Political Fundraising and Toxic Rhetoric Online.” Party Politics: 13540688241235901. DOI: 10.1177/13540688241235901.

    [5] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, and Jan Zilinsky. 2024. “Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship.” Political Behavior. 46(1):67- 87. DOI: 10.1007/s11109-022-09816-z.

— Podcast interview at the Niskanen Center ’s The Science of Politics, May 19, 2021, “Is Demographic and Geographic Polarization Overstated?”

— Previously circulated as “The Divided (But Not More Predictable) Electorate: A Machine Learning Analysis of Voting in American Presidential Elections.”

    [6] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2023. “Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers.” American Political Science Review. 117(3): 1137-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422000983.

— “Automatic Voter Reregistration Can Substantially Boost Turnout.” The Conversation. Nov 4, 2022.

    [7] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2023. “Money in Politics: Self-Enrichment, Campaign Spending, and Golden Parachutes by Simon Weschle.” Political Science Quarterly, 138(3): 461-63. DOI: 10.1093/psquar/qqad047

    [8] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. “Grumbach, Jacob M. 2022. Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.” Korean Journal of Legislative Studies 29(1): 207-212 (in Korean).

    [9] Lopez, Jennifer, R. Michael Alvarez, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2022. “Latinos, Group Identity, and Equal Opportunity on the 2020 California Ballot.” Social Science Quarterly. 103(7): 1572–86. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13217.

    [10] Cao, Jian, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2022. “Bayesian Analysis of State Voter Registration Database Integrity.” Statistics, Politics and Policy 13(1): 19–40. DOI: 10.1515/spp- 2021-0016.

    [11] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Hannah Lebovits, and Sarah Shugars. 2022. “Networking 101 for Graduate Students: Building a Bigger Table.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 55(2): 307-12. DOI: 10.1017/S1049096521001025.

    [12] Alvarez, R. Michael, Nicholas J. Adams-Cohen, Seo-young Silvia Kim and Yimeng Li. 2020. Securing Elections: How Data-Driven Election Monitoring Can Improve Democracy. Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108887359

    [13] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, R. Michael Alvarez, and Christina M. Ramirez. 2020. “Who Voted in 2016? Using Fuzzy Forests to Understand Voter Turnout.” Social Science Quarterly. 101(2): 978– 988. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12777.

    [14] Alvarez, R. Michael, Jonathan N. Katz, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2020. “Hidden Donors: The Censoring Problem in U.S. Federal Campaign Finance Data.” Election Law Journal. 19(1): 1–18. DOI: 10.1089/elj.2019.0593.

    [15] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Spencer Schneider, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2020. “Evaluating the Quality of Changes in Voter Registration Databases.” American Politics Research. 48(6): 670– 676. DOI: 10.1177/1532673X19870512.

    [16] Alvarez, R. Michael, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2019. Computational Social Science. In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0285.

    [17] Korean translation of Gelman, Andrew et al. 2013. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition. CRC Press. (e-Book publication at BookCube, 2020; one of eight translators).

    [18] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2015. “Can Franchisor Efforts Discourage Its Franchisees? Evidence from South Korea.” The Comparative Economic Review. 22(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.23014/kace.22.1.201506.1

    [19] “Thriving in Graduate School as an International Student: How to Combat the Hidden Costs and Barriers.” (with Melanie Sayuri Dominguez).

    [20] “The Academic Job Market: Timeline, APSA, and the Packet.”

    [21] Kim, Seo-young Silvia and Syngjoo Choi. 2015. “Game Theory and the Rational Man.” Physics and High Technology 24(2): 12-17. doi: 10.3938/PhiT.24.003 (in Korean)

학력
 

  ㄱ. 학부: 서울대학교 사회과학대학 경제학과, 사회학과 (2014년) 

           Seoul National University, B.A. in Economics, B.A. in Sociology

  ㄴ. 석사: 캘리포니아 공과대학 사회과학 석사 (2017년)

           California Institute of Technology, M.S. in Social Sciences

  ㄷ. 박사: 캘리포니아 공과대학 사회과학 박사 (2020년)

           California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Social Sciences

 

경력

  ㄱ. 서울대학교 정치외교학부 임용 이전 경력:

      2024년~현재 서울대학교 정치외교학부 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Seoul National University

      2023년~2024년 서강대학교 정치외교학과 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Sogang University

      2020년~2023년 아메리칸대학교 정치학과 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University

  ㄴ. 기타:

     [1] 2023년~현재. 뉴욕대학교 법학부 브레넌 정의 센터(The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law) 사회과학 자문위원회 패널 회원

     [2] 2021년~현재. 아메리칸대학교 데이터 과학 센터 (Center for Data Science) 교수 연구원

                     Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science, American University.

FIELDS OF STUDY

  1. Political Theory & Meothodology 이론, 방법론

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  1. American Politics 미국정치

  2. Political Methodology 정치학 방법론

  3. Computational Social Sciences 계산사회과학

  4. Political Behavior 정치행태

  5. Elections 선거

  6. Election Administration 선거관리

  7. Money in Politics 정치자금