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Boram Lee

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international trade, issue linkage, esg | assistant professor in ipe at lse

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04.03.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Korea’s acting president could soon face an impeachment of his own Korea could be left in an unprecedented position of operating under an β€œacting acting president”

S. Korean situation now:

1. Han DS (PM) *refuses* to appoint Con. Court Judges nominated by the National Assembly (he should).

2. The opposition is likely to impeach Han.

3. PPP declares to *refuse* this impeachment too.

Those *refusing* to stop #insurrection are insurrectionists too.

27.12.2024 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

4/ The real question is whether it's better to impeach the PM now and reduce long-term political uncertainty, or trust and take a chance on the PM who allegedly took part in the insurrection and prolong the unrest for years to come.

27.12.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3/ Anyone following the politics around the insurrection understands that today's impeachment was, at least partially, justified because the PM refused to fill the bench in the Constitutional Court. This refusal could delegitimize the legality of the Court's ruling once the process is complete.

27.12.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

2/ In addition to the misleading headline, the article quotes an expert saying the second impeachment signals that "the political unrest could be worsened."

27.12.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/ I'm frustrated with how the NYT may misrepresent the causal relationship between the latest impeachment of the PM and political uncertainty. Did the second impeachment worsen political instability?

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

27.12.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So far, 282 political scientists worldwide have signed and supported our statement on impeachment. Hankyore, a mainstream media outlet, featured this just hours ago, and more to come. Thank you!!

www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic...

11.12.2024 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Vparty data, with a focus on South Korea, showing that the conservative party has never been committed to democratic norms.

Vparty data, with a focus on South Korea, showing that the conservative party has never been committed to democratic norms.

Did the insurrection in #SKorea come out of nowhere? One way to think about is how the conservative party (red) has never been more committed to the basic democratic norms prior to elections than an average (green) party in the *world* (gray) was, let alone the Democratic Party (red). Data: V-party.

10.12.2024 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Political scientists worldwide. Please sign the form to support restoration of democracy in South Korea.

08.12.2024 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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08.12.2024 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Declaration of Political Scientists of South Korea A Declaration by Political Scientists of South Korea Call for an Immediate Reintroduction and the Passage of the Impeachment Bill to Restore the Constitutional Order The emergency martial law declar...

573 political scientists in and out of Korea have written and signed a declaration calling for Yoon's immediate impeachment. I've translated it into English with Prof. Jeong Hyun Kim at Yonsei:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

08.12.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Findings: Countries with PR systems tend to discipline their own MNCs for their alleged breaches of global norms in host countries, responding to peer review and advocacy. Includes quantitative tests of the OECD Guidelines complaints + Cases of S.Korea, Holland, and the UK.

08.07.2024 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tl;dr: Electoral institutions moderate enforcement strategies' effectiveness. Norms become salient with issue parties supporting them, pushing mainstream left parties to respond to the issue parties' adoption of the previously non-salient issue of MNC behavior abroad.

08.07.2024 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People think advocacy or IO-led peer review increase the salience of those norms. But if you grew up in a country with national champion companies, you’d instinctively understand how difficult it is to convince people to care about MNC behavior in host countries.

08.07.2024 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conditional Effects of the Spotlight: Electoral Institutions and the Enforcement of Global Corporate Norms Abstract. Under what conditions do governments discipline powerful multinational companies for breaching global corporate norms? Existing international rel

My paper on global corporate norm enforcement is out in @ISQ_Jrnl. Politicians in democracies find home-grown MNCs valuable (Samsung to Korea). Why do some governments discipline their home-grown MNCs, aka national champions, more often than others?

academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

08.07.2024 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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