Dong-A University, South Korea
ybae.posc@gmail.com

Yooil Bae is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea. He publishes on comparative politics and policy, state-society relationships, urban political economy, and environmental politics in East Asia in journals such as Urban Affairs Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, Democratization, and Cities. Recently he co-authored a book, Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State (2020) and has been interested in how civil society contributes to solving complex governance issues in various national settings. He is also working on how design thinking shapes the landscape of citizen participation.