Woo Chang Kang

Associate Professor of Political Science

Korea University · Seoul

I study how voters and political elites interact in representative democracies — with a focus on inequalities among social groups by partisanship, gender, age, and migration status.

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Research interests

Representation & Polarization Gender & Intergroup Politics Immigration Economic Inequality Politics of Face

Selected publications

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Revisiting Candidate Gender Effects: Heuristics, Sexism, and Information Environments

Kweon, Yesola, Woo Chang Kang and Jong-sung You · Politics & Gender (Forthcoming) · DOI

선거 관리 업무의 현장 경험은 부정선거 인식을 바꾸는가?

이인복·강우창·박선경 · 한국정당학회보, 25(1): 159-196 (2026) · DOI

한국 민주주의 위기와 아래로부터의 퇴행?: 민주주의 만족도의 변화, 2003~2025

강우창 · 한국과국제정치, 42(1): 127-153 (2026) · DOI

선거는 정치적 양극화를 해소하는가? : 2025년 한국 대통령 선거를 전후한 양극화 인식 변화

강우창·김한나 · 한국정치학회보, 59(4): 121-146 (2025) · DOI

2024년 미국 대선에서의 경제투표: 경제 성과와 인종 구성이 선거 결과에 미친 영향

김한나·강우창 · 현대정치연구, 59(1): 5-28 (2025) · Link

About

I am an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Korea University. I received my Ph.D. from New York University in 2015. Before joining Korea University in 2019, I worked as a postdoc at Yale University and a lecturer at the Australian National University. My research explores the interactions between voters and political elites during political processes within representative democracy, aiming to identify ways to mitigate inequalities and enhance representation.

Education

Ph.D. in Politics, New York University
M.A. in Politics, Korea University
B.A. in English Literature, Korea University