Overarching Research Agenda

  • Bureaucratic Politics: Influence of public agencies on politics and policymaking
  • Public Management: Factors of the management of public agencies, and its implications for policy implementation
  • Impact Analysis: Impact of policies implemented within or by public agencies on intended and unintended outcomes

Topical Research Areas

  • Accountability and responsiveness, performance management and leadership, citizen-state interactions, social equity, policing

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

*: Co-lead author, †: Student coauthor.

Headley, A. M., Baker, D, & Kang, I.* (2024). Body-worn cameras, police arrests and bureaucratic discretion: A large-scale causal analysis across the United States.
Public Administration Review, Forthcoming.

Kang, I & Choi, S.† (2024).
Redirecting law enforcement revenues toward funding local nonprofits: A policy design proposal.
Journal of Public Policy, Forthcoming.

Kang, I. & Lee, S. (2024).
Client credibility judgment: A barrier to social equity in street-level implementation.
Policy Studies Journal, Forthcoming.

Kang, I & Jilke, S. (2024).
Mapping out the motivational basis of active representation as intergroup behavior.
Public Administration, 102(1), 164–187.

Kang, I. (2023).
How does technology-based monitoring affect street-level bureaucrats’ behavior? An analysis of body-worn cameras and police actions.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 42(4), 971–991.

Kang, I. (2022).
Beyond street-level procedural justice: Social construction, policy shift, and ethnic disparities in confidence in government institutions.
Governance, 35(3), 737-755.

Non-Refereed Publications

Kang, I. (2021, July 2). Why improving police behavior may not be enough. Medium. https://medium.com/3streams/why-improving-police-behavior-may-not-be-enough-6ee63a1cfa9bhttps://link.medium.com/Ge1ty70Ixh