Person

Park, Jung Hoon

His academic interests are generally related to East Asian politics, with specific country foci on Indonesia and South Korea. The primary one is the rise of political Islam, as manifested in not only an increase in vote shares and seats of Islamist/Islamic parties but also a growing personal and communal Islamic piety . He also has paid attention to testing, conceptualizing, and measuring the qualities of democracies in East Asian countries and other developing countries.