Hye Young You’s research while affiliated with Princeton University and other places

... 5. Discussion: limits and future of the LinkedIn data in improving record linkage We have shown how to use half a billion user-contributed records from a prominent employment networking site to help link datasets about organizations. Researchers studying organizations frequently find themselves in situations where they must link datasets based on shared names and without common covariates (Crosson et al., 2020;Thieme, 2020;Rasmussen et al., 2021;Carpenter et al., 2021;Stuckatz, 2022;Abi-Hassan et al., 2023;González and You, 2024). Existing methods, notably human coding and fuzzy matching, or some combination of the two, are costly to apply and often involve ad hoc decision-making by scholars about what seems to be working well (or well enough). ...

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Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records

... The result is a patchwork geography of varying economic interest and affluence. U.S. electoral institutions also accentuate the role of geography, territorially grouping voters, expressing their voices in singlemember districts, and focusing the attention of officeholders on representing territorially bounded constituencies (Bisbee and You 2024;Lappie and Marschall 2018;Forest 2018;Rickard 2012) . ...

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The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections: A view from Texas statewide campaigns

... Intermediary actors are present at all levels of socio-technological systems, i.e., not only within emerging niches (Bergek, 2020;Hargreaves et al., 2013;Kivimaa, 2014) or at the intersection between regimes and niches (Geels & Deuten, 2006;Klerkx & Leeuwis, 2008), but also within established technological regimes or systems (Bessant & Rush, 1995;Sovacool et al., 2020;Stankiewicz, 1995). Hence, it is important to acknowledge that, apart from transition intermediaries , there are intermediaries whose formal (or hidden) mission is to defend the existing regime, dominant technologies and practices, e.g. trade and industry associations, lobby organizations, etc. (Bushouse & Mosley, 2018;Hirsch et al., 2023). More research about these types of actors is crucial, as they consciously work to hamper transitions, e.g., by coordinating the interests of a particular industry and actively lobbying and negotiating with government to shape and maintain a status quo (Watkins et al., 2015;Yao et al., 2022). ...

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Special Issue - Ecologies of intermediation: navigating interactions, conflicts and complexity in accelerating transitions - in journal of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

... When researchers use lobbying expenditures as independent variables, I suggest they examine differences between the coefficients for contract and in-house lobbying expenditures. Further, combining analyses using expenditures with other measures of lobbying activity, for example, based on bills lobbied or committee appearances (e.g., Drutman, 2015;Lee and You, 2023) can clarify the extent to which there is variation in lobbying activity, especially if expenditures are constant over time or clients report zero expenditures in some filing periods. Finally, since temporally fine-grained expenditure data need not be best for reducing measurement error, researchers should consider higher levels of temporal aggregation in analyses where contract lobbying predominates, such as federal-level lobbying in the US. ...

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(When) are lobbying expenditures a good proxy for lobbying activity?

... Foreign policy literature suggests that two types of policy impact foreign relations more than others-international alliances (Hussain 1979;Haim 2016) and foreign assistance (Berman and Heineman 1963;McKinlay and Little 1977;Mellor and Master 1991;Kee et al. 2007;Montes-Rojas 2013). Similar to domestic actors, a foreign entity can choose to contact the US government directly, often through diplomatic channels (Tidwell 2017), or they can hire a lobbyist to represent their interests (You 2023). The lobbyists are the focus of this inquiry and analysis. ...

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Lobbying from the Outside: Foreign Agents, Lobbyists, and Foreign Advocacy in the USA

... Therefore, the pre-legislation phase is distinct from traditional congressional oversight functions, which are typically conducted after the enactment of laws and focus primarily on evaluating the enforcement of legislation by federal agencies and assessing the implementation of policy programs. Existing research has found a prominent role of federal agencies in congressional oversight activities (May et al., 2016;Miller, 2004) as well as in all committee hearings from 1961 to 2018 (Ban et al., 2023), but less scholarly attention has been paid to what roles federal bureaucrats play in the early years during the pre-legislation stage when an emerging public issue is relatively new and fluid, Congress focuses on understanding the issue, and no major policy or legislation has been formulated to address the issue. ...

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Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality

... First, I analyze how the development of the fracking industry affected the enforcement of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at the zip code-level in the seven states where most of this industry was located between 1990 and 2014. Following Sances and You (2022), I apply a difference-in-differences design using the year 2005 as the time at which technological advances made fracking economically viable, and show that the non-energy sector experienced a significant increase in regulatory activities. At the zip code level, having at least one fracking well increases the number of regulatory actions for non-energy firms by 23%. ...

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Environmental regulation, regulatory spillovers and rent-seeking

... In this vein, women generally are disinclined towards public speaking (De Paola et al. 2021) and less inclined towards leadership roles (Alan et al. 2020;Ertac and Gurdal 2012), which are key components of public service. 2 Women are also underrepresented among congressional staff (Ritchie and You 2021) and in campaigns (Chewning et al. 2024;Enos and Hersh 2015). This work, however, focuses on institutional barriers or gatekeepers rather than on gender differences in ambition. ...

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Does the Presence or Absence of Elections Remove Gender Differences in Ambition for Public Service?

... These studies have evaluated the law and its amendments (Straus 2021), the scope of registration and disclosure requirements (Leech et al. 2005;LaPira et al. 2014; Thomas and LaPira 2017), and effectiveness (Choi et al. 2015). Fewer studies have focused on foreign agents registered under FARA (Newhouse 2009;Peksen and Petersen 2022), and those that have tend to focus on the available data (You 2020) or types of political activities covered by the law (Krishnakumar 2021). ...

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Lobbying from the Outside: Foreign Agents, Lobbyists, and Foreign Advocacy in the USA

... and childcare (Burgoon, 2001, Hays, 2009). This claim is echoed in more recent analyses of the anti-globalization backlash, some of which find that access to compensatory programs (such as Trade Adjustment Assistance in the United States) reduces the appeal of populist right-wing political candidates (and softens the effect of the 'China shock' on political outcomes (Kim and Pelc, 2021;Ritchie and You, 2021)). ...

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A Domestic Political Economy of Package Treaties