Kun (Byeonggeun) Heo, 허병근
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Government, LSE (2024-)
Research Interests: Political Economy, Political Accountability, Democratic Stability, Formal Models, Quantitative Methods, Information Economics, & Information Theory
Education: PhD, NYU (2025), BA, Hanyang University, Seoul (2018)
Please find my latest CV.
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="blTuH3876QzVNnqtVz_ua6QxSxyTll_Z4HseygrH0XI" />
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
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)