Kun (Byeonggeun) Heo 허병근

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

My research uses formal models to study how institutions shape the relationship between politicians and citizens across different political environments.

I received my PhD in Politics from NYU (2025) and BA in Political Science and International Relations from Hanyang University, Seoul (2018).

Please find my latest CV and research statement.

Research

Working Papers

Bureaucratic Resistance and Policy Inefficiency (with Elisa Wirsching)
-Conditionally Accepted, American Political Science Review

Discretionary Disclosure and Political Accountability
-Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Political Science

A Strategic Logic of Public Education Provision: Evidence from the Second French Empire (with Alejandro López Peceño)
-Under Review

Segment and Rule: Modern Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes (with Antoine Zerbini)
-Under Review

A Theory of Policy Justification (with Dimitri Landa)

Censorship in Large Societies (with Antoine Zerbini)

Information and Organizational Performance
(Previously, "Informativeness for One, Clarity for All")

Work in Progress

Miscoordination by Better Information

Self-Degenerating/Expanding Democracy

Segment and Rule: Democracy (with Antoine Zerbini)

Endogenous information consumption and behavioral changes (with Carolina Torreblanca and Elisa Wirsching)

Lies and Silence in Repeated Communications (with Dimitri Landa)

Learning Incentives in Committees (with Dimitri Landa and Catherine Hafer)

Undemocratic Protection for Democracy in Welfare States

Email: b.heo@lse.ac.uk