School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Wooseok Kim

  • Research Associate (School of Social & Political Sciences)

Biography

Wooseok Kim is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, working on a project titled "Party Systems and Democracy in the Face of Populism and Authoritarianism." Prior to beginning this fellowship, he joined the University of Glasgow as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Democratic Politics in September 2022 to work on Professor Anja Neundorf's ERC-funded "Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it" (DEMED) project.

His research primarily investigates the factors the contribute to the resilience of democratic and autocratic regimes, with a particular focus on party systems and policymaking.

He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, an MA in Statistics, and an MA/PhD in Political Science—all from the University of Michigan.

His personal website can be viewed at: https://www.wskim.com/

Research interests

  • Democracy and autocracy
  • Regime resilience
  • Political parties and party systems
  • Legislatures and policymaking

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024
Number of items: 6.

2026

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia and Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2026) Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2611256) (Early Online Publication)

2025

del Río, Adrián, Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Paglayan, Agustina and Nazrullaeva, Eugenia (2025) Enhancing transparency and replicability in data collection: lessons from the construction of three education datasets. Perspectives on Politics, (doi: 10.1017/S1537592725103058) (Early Online Publication)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Hicken, Allen and Kollman, Ken (2025) Party system congruence and bicameralism. Comparative Political Studies, 58(12), pp. 2621-2653. (doi: 10.1177/00104140241302767)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864 (2025) Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies. Party Politics, 31(1), pp. 3-14. (doi: 10.1177/13540688231211241)

2024

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Bernhard, Michael and Hicken, Allen (2024) Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes. European Journal of Political Research, 63(4), pp. 1374-1396. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12655)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia, Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864 (2024) Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world. Perspectives on Politics, 22(3), pp. 771-798. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592723002967)

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Jump to: Articles
Number of items: 6.

Articles

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia and Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2026) Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2611256) (Early Online Publication)

del Río, Adrián, Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Paglayan, Agustina and Nazrullaeva, Eugenia (2025) Enhancing transparency and replicability in data collection: lessons from the construction of three education datasets. Perspectives on Politics, (doi: 10.1017/S1537592725103058) (Early Online Publication)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Hicken, Allen and Kollman, Ken (2025) Party system congruence and bicameralism. Comparative Political Studies, 58(12), pp. 2621-2653. (doi: 10.1177/00104140241302767)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864 (2025) Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies. Party Politics, 31(1), pp. 3-14. (doi: 10.1177/13540688231211241)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Bernhard, Michael and Hicken, Allen (2024) Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes. European Journal of Political Research, 63(4), pp. 1374-1396. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12655)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia, Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Kim, Wooseok ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864 (2024) Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world. Perspectives on Politics, 22(3), pp. 771-798. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592723002967)

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Grants

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2024-2027)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2023
Number of items: 1.

2023

Neundorf, A. , Nazrullaeva, E., Northmore-Ball, K., Tertytchnaya, K., Kim, W., Benavot, A., Bromley, P., Knutsten, C. H., Lutscher, P., Marquardt, K., Paglayan, A., Pemstein, D., Seim, B. and Rydén, O. (2023) Varieties of Political Indoctrination in Education and the Media (V-Indoc) Dataset V1. [Data Collection]

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