JESSICA KIM
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    • DINGOs and Democracy Promotion
    • Environmental and Climate Beliefs
    • Women's Rights and Gender Equality
  • CV
  • Teaching
  • About

research:

Global and transnational in scope, my research lies at the intersection of political sociology and international development, with a focus on global norms and cross-national attitudes. Specifically, I examine cross-national trends in democracy, climate change and the environment, and women’s rights to address new and pressing questions about how to best foster development. I am pursuing multiple projects engaging three overlapping lines of research examining how:

1) democracy-promoting international non-governmental organizations (DINGOs) frame and deliver aid, and how this impacts international development and democratization in target countries;
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2) exposure to liberal global forces augment or reduce individuals' environmental and climate change skepticism, and;

3) development activities promoting women’s rights influence gender equality and ideology.

​Using a combination of advanced quantitative methods such as longitudinal analysis and multilevel modeling, computational text analysis, and large-scale experimental surveys to conduct comparative, cross-national analyses,​ I expand existing literature on development in novel and innovative ways while answering fundamental and timely questions about how to best achieve stability, safety, and well-being through development. 
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