Namhoon Ki

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science

University of Miami

Biography

Namhoon Ki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami. His research interests include Local Government, Inter-governmental Collaboration, Public Management, Fiscal Decentralization, and Network Analysis.

Interests

Local Government
Public Management
Collaborative Governance
Network Modeling

Education

PhD in Public Administration, 2019
Florida State University
MA in Public Administration, 2013
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
BA in Public Administration, 2010
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

Journal Articles

Namhoon Ki (2023). Competition and Local Government’s Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-offs. (Online First at American Review of Public Administration).

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Namhoon Ki, Taewon Yoon, and Jeffrey Swanson (2023). Do Not Ask for Job Information from Your Close Friends or from Strangers: Strength of Moderate Ties in Finding a Satisfying Job. (Online first at Current Psychology).

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Gook Jin Kim, Namhoon Ki, and Taewon Yoon (2023). Untangling the Association between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation with the Moderating Role of Value Congruence. (Online First at American Review of Public Administration).

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Jefferey Swanson and Namhoon Ki (2023). Has the Fiscal Decentralization of Social Welfare Rrograms Helped Effectively Reduce Poverty across U.S. States?. The Social Science Journal 60(2), 213–234.

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Namhoon Ki (2022). The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment. Administration & Society 52(2), 277-310.

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Chang-Gyu Kwak, Namhoon Ki, Suk-Joon Hwang (2021). Selective vs. Collective Outcomes of Collaborative Governance: The Impacts of Federal Stimulus Programs on Local and Regional Governance Outcomes. Sustainability 13(21).

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Naon Min, Namhoon Ki, and Taewon Yoon (2021). Public Service Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and the Moderating Effect of Employment Sector: A Meta-Analysis. International Review of Public Administration 26(2) 135-155.

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Namhoon Ki (2021). Public Service Motivation and Local Government Officials’ Willingness to Learn in Public Sector Benchmarking Process. Public Management Review 23(4), 610-632.

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Namhoon Ki, Chang-Gyu Kwak, and Minsun Song (2020). Strength of Strong Tie in Inter-City Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundary. Public Administration Review, 80(1) 23-35.

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Jeffrey Swanson and Namhoon Ki (2020). When Would a Democratic Governor Increase Social Welfare Funding? The Joint Moderation of a State’s Economy and a Governor’s Budgetary Authority. Review of Policy Research 37(5) 634-656.

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Minsun Song, Kyujin Jung, Namhoon Ki, and Richard C. Feiock (2020). Testing Structural and Relational Embeddedness in Collaboration Risk. Rationality and Society 32(1) 67-92.

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Namhoon Ki and Jongsun Park (2019). Defection Vulnerability of Services and Inter-governmental Agreement for Public Service Delivery. Korean Administration Quarterly, 31(2) 343-361.

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Courses Taught

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science, University of Miami

2020 – Present Miami, Florida

Courses Taught:

POL 319: Politics of the Administrative Process (undergraduate level), Spring 2023
POL 696: (online) NGOs and Global Governance (graduate level), Spring 2022
POL 610: (online) Statistics for Politics and Public Administration (graduate level), Spring 2021
POL 510/610: Statistics for Politics and Public Administration (graduate & undergraduate), Fall 2020 – Present
POL 522/622: Introduction to Graduate Public Administration (graduate & undergraduate), Fall 2020 – Present

Postdoc/Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University

2017 – 2020 Tallahassee, Florida