Research

Updated October 18, 2026

Research Interests

American Politics · Legislative Politics (Congress) · Elections · Public Opinion · Korean Politics

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

In English

2026

Kwak, Sunwoo, Eunmi Cho, and Sinjae Kang. “Who Controls the Legislative Process? Party Cartels, Committee Gatekeepers, and Subcommittee Activity in the South Korean National Assembly.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 51(2): e70072.

In Korean

2026

Kang, Sinjae, Sunwoo Kwak, and Eunmi Cho. “A Cosponsorship Network Analysis of Life and Safety Legislation Before and After the Sewol Ferry Disaster: Evidence from the 17th–22nd National Assemblies of Korea.” Dispute Resolution Studies Review 24(2): 123–162.

2025

Kang, Sinjae, Sunwoo Kwak, and Jeongmin Lee. “Did the 2019 Revision of the National Assembly Act Revitalize Subcommittees? Analyzing the Frequency and Scheduling Determinants of Bill Review Subcommittee Meetings.” Legislation and Policy Studies 17(1): 5–36.

2024

Terashita, Kazuhiro, Eunmi Cho, Juhyeon Jeong, and Sunwoo Kwak. “Who Mentions the Region?: Analyzing Geographical Representation through Parliamentary Speeches.” Journal of Parliamentary Research 19(2): 5–42.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

2026

Lee, Hyeongjae, Seonwoo Ahn, Sunwoo Kwak, June Jeon, Taegyoon Kim, and Jisung Yoon. “Who Counts as ‘the People’? Measuring Contested Political Concepts from Political Speech using Masked Language Models.” In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026). Forthcoming.

Working Papers

“Economic Agendas in Governors’ Speeches Using Text as Data: Impact of Electoral and Institutional Conditions” (with Eunmi Cho)

Best Paper Award, Academic Support Program, Yonsei University Graduate Student Association (2025)

“Mentioning Party Labels in Campaign Ads: Changing Campaign Behavior under a Polarized and Nationalized Context” (with Kyungrim Chung and Yoojin Kim)

Conference Presentations

American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting 2025

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference 2025

International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress 2025

International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2025

World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Annual Conference 2024

World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Asia Pacific Annual Conference 2025

Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) Annual Conference 2023, 2024

Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) Summer Conference 2024, 2025