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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Join us as author Dr Sungmin Rho discusses her recently published book Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of #China's Rise with Dr @boramlee.bsky.social, @ruofan-ma.bsky.social, and Dr Natalya Naqvi. This event is open to all. ➡️ bit.ly/4bvDubB #LSEEvents #AcademicSky #PoliSky

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👓 Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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.

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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 “acting acting president”

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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.

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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.

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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...

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👓 Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

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Sangsin Lee @sslee.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

정치학자 573명의 시국선언

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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...

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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...

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

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.

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

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.

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

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.

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Boram Lee @boramlee.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

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/...

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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

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