Jae-jin Yang is a Professor of Public Administration and director of Institute for Welfare State Research at Yonsei University, Seoul. His work focuses on comparative political economy of the welfare state. His works appeared in Governance, Comparative Politics, International Political Science Review, Journal of European Social Policy, and Policy & Politics. He won the Best Article Award (2013) and Injae Best Book Award (2017) from the Korean Political Science Association and Akira Nakamura Award (2019) from Asian Association for Public Administration.