Overarching Research Agenda

  • Politics of public administration and management: How politics and public agencies influence each other—and the implications of this interaction for the agencies’ management
  • Policy implementation: How public agencies shape the implementation of public programs, resulting in both intended and unintended outcomes

Topical Research Areas

  • Accountability and responsiveness, performance management, street-level bureaucracy and citizen-state interaction, representation and social equity, policing

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

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

Inkyu Kang, Martin Sievert, & Chongmin Na. (forthcoming).
Development of a scale to measure perceived administrative burden, with broad applicability beyond direct policy clients. Governance.

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

Inkyu Kang & Su Young Choi.† (2025).
Redirecting revenues from law enforcement fines, forfeitures, and related fees to fund local nonprofits: A policy design proposal. Journal of Public Policy.

Inkyu Kang & Andrea M. Headley. (forthcoming).
Valence for representation-enhancing organizational change: A driver of active representation beyond bureaucrat-client social identity match. American Review of Public Administration.

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

Inkyu Kang & Sebastian Jilke. (2024).
Mapping out the motivational basis of active representation as intergroup behavior. Public Administration.

Inkyu Kang. (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.

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

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