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Identity and Status: When Counterspeech Increases Hate Speech Reporting and Why
No full textMuch has been written about how social media platforms enable the rise of networked activism. However, few studies have examined how these platforms’ low-information environments shape how social movement activists, their opponents, and social media platforms interact. Hate speech reporting is one understudied area where such interactions occur. This article fills this gap by examining to what extent and how the gender and popularity of counterspeech in comment sections influence social media users’ willingness to report hate speech on the #MeToo movement. Based on a survey experiment (n = 1250) conducted in South Korea, we find that YouTube users are more willing to report such sexist hate speech when the counterspeech is delivered by a female rather than a male user. However, when the female user’s counterspeech received many upvotes, this was perceived to signal her enhanced status and decreased the intention to report hate speech, particularly among male users. No parallel patterns were found regarding other attitudes toward hate speech, counterspeech, YouTube, the #MeToo movement, and gender discrimination and hate speech legislation. These findings inform that users report hate speech based on potentially harmful content as well as their complex social interactions with other users and the platform.1
효율성인가, 형평성인가? 한국 인프라투자 지역 배분의 결정요인
No full textWe used a structural model to determine which aspects of efficiency and equity criteria were advocated in allocating investment in transportation infrastructure by region in the Republic of Korea during the period of 2001–2014. The estimation by the generalized method of moments indicated that the country’s regional allocation of public investment favored equity enhancement rather than efficiency gain. Empirical findings also include evidence of the substitutionary relationship between the investments by the central and regional governments, as well as the excess capital stock of transportation infrastructure compared with the optimum. The infrastructure needs and regional financial conditions had limited effects on the past allocation of investment. Political influence was exerted with respect to electoral productivity rather than partisanship.1
Teaching Computational Social Science for All
Full text linkComputational methods have become an integral part of political science research. However, helping students to acquire these new skills is challenging because programming proficiency is necessary, and most political science students have little coding experience. This article presents pedagogical strategies to make transitioning from Excel, SPSS, or Stata to R or Python for data analytics less painful and more exciting. First, it discusses two approaches for making computational methods accessible: showing the big picture and walking through the workflow. Next, a step-by-step guide for a typical course is provided through three examples: learning programming fundamentals, wrangling messy data, and communicating data analysis.1
focusing on the case of improving the water environment of Bohyeonsan dam through residents' participation
Full text linkThesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Public Management, 2022As civil society grows and civil consciousness matures, citizens' desire to participate in politics and their expectations for the government have risen rapidly across the world. Now, citizens are not just objects to governing or the policy beneficiaries, as they actively participate and collaborate in the entire stage of policy. The main form in which this is realized is "governance". Since the 2000s, research and application of collaborative governance have been actively conducted, and practical communication and active participation of stakeholders is considered important, and in particular, active interest and participation of citizens are the most important. This is because citizens' participation leads to practical communication between the government and the people, and increases the acceptance of the policy and reliability of the government, which determines the success of the policy. In addition, due to the scalability of mutual communication and trust-building, this collaborative governance enables the establishment of a friendly support base in the mid to long term, and in that respect, it is also linked to customer relationship management. As the government confirmed the unification of water management in 2018 in South Korea, K-water has expanded its business area from the existing management of water quantity to water quality and ecosystem. Accordingly, K-water has intended to attempt various measures in the Bohyeonsan Dam as a testbed of the enhancement of the water environment in the upper stream basin of the Dam and included measures involving residents of the upper stream basin. Bohyeonsan Dam governance is highly praised not only in K-water internal performance evaluation but also externally as it has shown that residents have been directly participating in the implementation of the water environment. This study analysed the success factors of collaborative governance through the case of Bohyeonsan Dam Governance, which is the first case where residents have participated in improving the water environment of the upper stream basin of the Dam in K-water. After constructing an analysis frame deductively from common success factors presented in previous studies on collaborative governance such as Ansell & Gash (2008), I would like to apply it to the Bohyeonsan Dam governance case, and also derive additional success factors. Based on the success factors derived from Bohyeonsan Dam governance, I would like to emphasize the residents' participation, and also presented measures to revitalize collaborative governance at the K-water site for sustainable win-win development with residents.1. Introduction
2. The theoretical background of collaborative governance and participatory governance
3. Review of Prior Studies on collaborative governance.
4. Study method and study design
5. Case Analysis: the Bohyeonsan Dam collaborative governance
6. How to apply and activate K-water on-site governance
7. ConclusionOutstandingmasterpublishedMina BAI
the case of rural Cote d'Ivoire
Full text linkThesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Public Policy, 2022In rural economies, how do weather extremes affect agricultural production and household welfare? Using Cote d’Ivoire’s Harmonized Survey of Household Living Conditions 2018-2019 data conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique (2018), I investigated how households in rural zones that entirely depend on rainfall for their agricultural activities are affected. Using an OLS model, I estimate the effect of self-reported rainfall shock on household’s main crops (rice, maize, yam) production and their welfare in rural Cote d’Ivoire. The result from the analysis shows that households that reported weather shock observe a decrease of 25% and 18% in yam and rice production, 8% and 3.2% in non-food consumption and consumption expenditure compared to the household that did not face rainfall shock. If nothing is done household that undergo weather shock could see their ability to send their children to school or subscribe to healthcare service reduce. These results could also lead children of those households drop from school and increase in farming works or other activities.
This study contributes to the few literatures that used self-reported weather shock to assess household’s level of poverty in rural zones.I. INTRODUCTION
II. BACKGROUND AND PREVIOUS STUDIES
III. DATA AND METHODOLOGY
IV. EMPIRICAL STRATEGY
V. RESULTSmasterpublishedHerve AZI
COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi
Full text linkWe use data collected from panel phone surveys to document the changes in food security of households in rural Liberia and Malawi during the market disruptions associated with the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. We use two distinct empirical approaches in our analysis: (a) an event study around the date of the lockdowns (March to July 2020), and (b) a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the lockdown period in 2020 to the same months in 2021, in order to attempt to control for seasonality. In both countries, market activity was severely disrupted and we observe declines in expenditures. However, we find no evidence of declines in food security.1
How Does Digital Governance Contribute to Effective Crisis Management? A Case Study of Korea's Response to COVID-19
No full textThe COVID-19 global pandemic has challenged governance practices around the world and led to calls for reform to better fit newly emerged expectations. Studies have identified multiple types of governance practices and important qualities in governance for coping with crises, but they have tended to focus on one or a few aspects. In addition, while the pandemic has shown us how the digital readiness of a country plays a pivotal role in adjusting to and mitigating the societal impact of a crisis, there is limited knowledge of how digital tools and strategies within digital governance can best be utilized in the context of crisis management. This study synthesizes the literature on governance and crisis management to draw a comprehensive analytical framework, aiming to examine the specific roles of digital governance in supporting crisis management. We utilize an interpretive case study of Korea's response to COVID-19, given the country's highly regarded digital governance performance and COVID-19 response. This study offers specific evidence and examples of how Korea's digital governance has operated in response to the pandemic and provides implications for existing theory by linking the digital governance literature to the context of pandemics as well as more effective crisis management practices.1
Impacts of Reforestation on Stabilization of Riverine Water Levels in South Korea
Full text linkWe investigate how reforestation contributed to stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea. For the purpose, we estimate an equation capturing dynamic relationships among rainfall, upstream-area tree stock, and downstream water levels in three river systems of Hongcheon, Mangyeong, and Hyeongsan, using daily observations of precipitation and water levels for the period from 1985 to 2005. Simulation based on estimation results shows that increase in the tree stock in a river basin leads to a significantly suppressed peaking in riverine water levels in response to an abrupt and concentrated rain in the upstream area. For instance, an hour-long concentration of 100mm rain results in 0.7m rise in water level if the volume of growing stock is 1 million m3 , whereas the rise in water level stays below 0.27m with 5 million m3 in the growing-stock volume
Time at Home, Fertility Intention and Housework Change
No full textWe examine the effect of the increase in time spent at home on married individuals’ fertility intention in South Korea. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures have led to the overall increase of the time spent at home, which offers a valuable opportunity to examine its effects on fertility intention. Employing the second wave of the survey on Koreans’ values regarding marriage and family in the COVID-19 era, carried out in June 2022, we tested the relationship controlling the potential effects of the COVID-19. The analysis reveals that when time spent at home increases, individuals are more likely to give up or delay their fertility plan. A mechanism of the adverse relationship is found to be the increased housework burden. The mediating effects of the increase of the housework are observed prominently among women, dual-earning couples, and those who have one child. This study provides that the adverse effect of the increased housework burden outweighs the potential positive effects of the increase of time spent at home, giving suggestive implications for the low fertility in South Korea.1
expectations, communication and transparency
Full text linkThesis(Doctoral) -- KDI School: Ph.D in Public Policy, 2022The conduct of monetary policy has greatly evolved in the past two decades, particularly because monetary authorities have become more transparent and are communicating monetary policy issues to the public more than before. Most central banks have reformed into either de jure or de facto inflation targeting frameworks, with intensified efforts to influence inflation expectations. The discussion in this dissertation is three-pronged. Chapter 1 explores the behavioral aspect of economic agents in forming inflation expectations by utilizing threshold models and time-varying Granger causality techniques in the context of lag-augmented vector autoregressive models to establish the extent to which inflation expectations may have a non-linear relationship with their predictors and whether inflation expectations can be adequately predicted. Chapter 2 discusses monetary policy communication, precisely by utilizing the text mining algorithms to extract the levels of readability, complexity, and sentiment contained in the monetary policy statements and further test how these indicators are related to financial market variables’ volatilities. Finally, chapter 3 attempts to understand how monetary policy transparency may affect the stability of the banking system. I find that economic agents might not revise their inflation expectations until the inflation target is missed beyond some threshold. I further find that credibility of the central bank, changes in the policy rate and missing of the inflation target by the central bank may provide insights on how economic agents would form their expectations about inflation in the future. I also find that small misses of inflation target do not trigger the revision of inflation expectations by the economic agents. There is evidence suggesting that the readability and complexity of monetary policy statements may affect exchange rate volatility in developing countries, and the tone of a central bank's statements regarding overall macroeconomic conditions matters for financial market volatility. Finally, I find evidence to suggest that banking industry stability could be influenced by how transparent a central bank is, particularly on issues related to explicit announcement of policy rules, provision of a comprehensive account of monetary policy deliberations, and disclosure of how each decision was reached.- Chapter 1: Two Decades of Targeting Inflation in South Africa: What are the Dynamics of Inflation Expectations?
- Chapter 2: Effects of Monetary Policy Communication on Key Financial Variables in Developing Countries (co-authored by Iegor Vyshnevskyi)
- Chapter 3: Dose Monetary Policy Transparency Matter for Banking System Stability? (co-authored by Wook Sohn)doctoralpublishedWytone Yohane JOMB