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 applies formal models to examine how politicians' control over citizens' information impacts political accountability across different institutional frameworks.

I have successfully defended my PhD and expect to receive my degree in Politics from NYU in Spring 2025.

Prior to beginning my doctoral studies, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, in 2018.

Please find my latest CV here.

Research

Working papers

Discretionary Disclosure and Political Accountability
-under review

Bureaucratic Resistance and Policy Inefficiency (with Elisa Wirsching)
-under review

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

Censorship in Large Societies (with Antoine Zerbini)

A Theory of Policy Justification (with Dimitri Landa)

Informativeness for One, Clarity for All: Comparing Experiments using Relative Entropy

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

Work in Progress

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

Lies and Silence in Repeated Communications (with Dimitri Landa)