Overarching Research Agenda

  • Politics of public administration and management: How politics and public agencies influence each other—and the implications of these interactions for agency management
  • Policy implementation: How politics and public agencies jointly shape the implementation of public programs, producing both intended and unintended outcomes

Topical Research Areas

  • Democracy–bureaucracy reconciliation, managerial decision-making, citizen-state interactions, social equity, policing

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

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

L. Jason Anastasopoulos & Inkyu Kang.*
(online first). Mapping the Temporal Evolution of Causal Effects in Public Administration and Policy Research. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Inkyu Kang. (forthcoming).
Tensions Between Client Satisfaction and Employee Motivation in Public
Organizations—and Their Reconciliation Through Leadership. American Review of Public Administration.

Inkyu Kang, Martin Sievert, & Chongmin Na. (2026).
Development of a scale to measure perceived administrative burden, with broad applicability beyond direct policy clients. Governance.

Andrea M. Headley, Daniel Baker, & Inkyu Kang.* (2026).
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. (2025).
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