JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED) WITH NOTES
C. Kim, M. May, V. Fry. 2024. “Institutional Arrangements of Government and Municipal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Public Performance & Management Review, 1-27. (Online published). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CC24F8NDC7NNIRNPJCH6/full?target=10.1080/15309576.2024.2338777
C. Kim and T. Choi. 2023. “Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services,” Public Performance & Management Review, 46(4): 890-919. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FAU6GCCZXIUUPPN65UMA/full?target=10.1080/15309576.2023.2204073
Note: There is always an interest among academics to test the effect of contracting out on fiscal outcomes, but the lack of relevant hard data in the U.S. has been the barrier to pursuing the research question, which made me turn to Korean context where such data had just become available. This project eventually led to “Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services.”
I like the theoretical framing done from a principal-agent perspective, shown in Figure 1 and the text associated with it, on how in-house production, R/MOC (Regionally/Municipally owned corporations) contracting, and nonprofit contracting differ, because I believe this has good empirical implications for future research. The idea was there in the earlier versions of the paper, but not very clear. It was Reviewer 3 from PPMR whose comments were extremely helpful for me to think hard to fully develop the idea.
Reviewer 3 offered very detailed, constructive comments throughout the paper from theory to method. They transformed this paper into something that I can be particularly proud of. Really grateful.
S. W. Kwon, D. B. Bailey, C. Kim. 2022. “Zoning to Enhance Local Sustainability: Why Local Governments Choose to Use Sustainability-Focused Land Use Tools,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-21 (Online published). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VVWVTBIIPWU3KYBS2PKQ/full?target=10.1080/09640568.2022.2133685
Note: I undertook data analysis for “Zoning to Enhance Local Sustainability: Why Local Governments Choose to Use Sustainability-Focused Land Use Tools.”
C. Kim and S. Park. 2022. “When Push Comes to Shove: The Effect of Economic Crisis on the Spending of Government Savings,” International Journal of Public Administration 45(6): 523-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2020.1868507
Note: I had this train of thought for “When Push Comes to Shove: The Effect of Economic Crisis on the Spending of Government Savings”: first, pork-seeking incentives of legislators are difficult to directly observe. Second, a spending indicator measured at an aggregate government level – for example, spending of government savings, total expenditures, debts, would be a good surrogate measure for individual pork-seeking, because the sum of individual pork-seeking would result in overspending at the government level. Third, spending of government savings (unreserved fund balances) could be a superior measure to total expenditures or debts to study the overspending tendency due to the low visibility of savings in the eyes of residents.
C. Kim. 2021. “Local Government Growth from a Tri-Sector Perspective,” Social Science Journal (Online published). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SY2FJHQWTPQJI4PP3RAN/full?target=10.1080/03623319.2020.1851012
Note: “Local Government Growth from a Tri-Sector Perspective” was inspired by the recent nonprofit literature explaining the growth of the nonprofit sector in relation to government size. Reviewing the literature, I became interested in accounting not just for government size and nonprofit sector size but also for for-profit sector size, and explaining their relationships from market/government failure theories.
M. Kwon, S. Y. Tang, C. Kim. 2018. “Examining Strategic Sustainability Plans and Smart-Growth Land-Use Measures in California Cities,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 61(9): 1570-1593. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RynnNISGRmEJKfwvpdHe/full?target=10.1080/09640568.2017.1355779
Note: I undertook data analysis for “Examining Strategic Sustainability Plans and Smart-Growth Land-Use Measures in California Cities.”
C. Kim. 2015. “The Effects of Recessions on Contracting Moderated by Institutional Arrangements of Government: Evidence from California Cities, 1993~2009,” Public Budgeting & Finance 35(2): 40-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12064
Note: My research question for “The Effects of Recessions on Contracting Moderated by Institutional Arrangements of Government: Evidence from California Cities, 1993~2009” was how two institutional characteristics of government (1. council-manager vs. mayor-council government, 2. home-rule government vs. government without home rule) modified the effect of economic recessions on government spending (contract expenditure). I created double interactions in the model by multiplying recessions twice; first by council manager and then by home rule, which allowed precise measurement of the modifying effects of four institutional combinations: 1) council-manager government with home rule, 2) council-manager government without home rule, 3) mayor-council government with home rule, and 4) mayor-council government without home rule.
C. Kim and Y. D. Jung. 2006. “Institutionalization of the National Assembly in Korea, 1948~2006,” Korean Journal of Public Administration 44(4): 91-129.
WORK IN PROGRESS (FOR PEER REVIEW)
C. Kim, M. May, V. Fry. Contract management strategies of local government CEOs by contractor form: A survey experiment (Under review)
C. Kim, M. May, B. Larsen, L. McGinnis-Brown. Performance of public libraries by governance structure: analysis of user satisfaction data from English and Spanish-language surveys (Data analysis)
C. Kim, M. May, V. Fry. Does county government form matter in fiscal performance? A difference-in-differences approach. (Data analysis)
Preferences of U.S. residents on local governance institutions: a conjoint experiment (Research design)
Perceptions of businesses on local bureaucratic corruptions in Korea: a difference-in-differences analysis of repeated cross-sectional data, 2004-2020 (Research design)
Do local governance institutions reduce bureaucratic corruption? A conjoint experiment of government officials in Korea (Research design)
Contracting out and government size (Research design)
Perceptions of U.S. residents on government-contractor relations: a conjoint experiment (Research design)
Newcomer to the correctional industry? Performance evaluation of nonprofit and for-profit jails (Research design)
Government as creative organization (Research design)
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