• Title/Summary/Keyword: 투표 기권

Search Result 3, Processing Time 0.013 seconds

Modified Rational Choice Model for the Effects of Education on Election Participation in Korea (교육수준이 선거기권에 미치는 영향: 다운스의 합리적 선택론을 중심으로)

  • 장원호
    • Survey Research
    • /
    • v.4 no.2
    • /
    • pp.23-45
    • /
    • 2003
  • While people with higher education are more likely to vote in most western societies, they are less likely to vote in Korea. To explain this puzzle, this paper introduces new concept of "distrust of the public promise. " With this new concept, this paper contends that in Korea where public promises are so easily broken, those with higher education are more skeptical of the politicians. Based on the various post-election surveys, this paper shows that "distrust of the public promise" leads the more educated people to abstain in the election. By adding rational factors of the voters to the conventional model, this paper proposed a more comprehensive model to explain non-voters in Korea. This paper explains increasing Korean non-voters in terms of rational choice perspective. choice perspective.

  • PDF

An Analysis of the Floor Vote on the Gadeokdo New Airport Special Act: Voting Decisions and Waffling (가덕도신공항 건설을 위한 특별법 본회의 표결 분석: 의원의 투표결정과 와플링(waffling))

  • Ka, Sangjoon;Kang, Sinjae;Park, Minkyu
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
    • /
    • v.27 no.2
    • /
    • pp.71-109
    • /
    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to find out what factors influence lawmakers' voting decisions in the plenary session. In particular, the study examines causes and characteristics of waffling and strategic waffling, which express opposition or abstention in a discharge petition or a vote at the plenary session despite participating in a bill sponsorship. The study on waffling is meaningful because it has not been covered in previous literatures. To this end, the Gadeokdo New Airport Special Act, which the National Assembly passed in February 2021, was set as an analysis target. The study examined the factors that affected legislators' voting decisions and participation in bill sponsorship and who were related with waffling. Statistical results showed that the age variable influenced the motion of the bill while seniority and party affiliation had an effect on the participation of the bill. Likewise, the study found that party affiliation and district had an influence on the approval of the bill. In addition, the analysis of waffling showed that lawmakers with higher seniority tended not to participate in the vote. It could be interpreted that lawmakers with more legislative experience judged that they would benefit from strategic waffling. There is a limit to understanding lawmakers' decision-making and waffling through a limited analysis of the Gadeokdo New Airport bill. However, given that lawmakers tend to choose avoidance strategies in ambiguous situations, and given the high intelligence of lawmakers who know better than anyone about the future impact of a new bill, the decision-making shown by lawmakers in each stage of the situation is a prudent judgment gained from their experience. It indicates that it is necessary to research the legislative activities of lawmakers in various ways.

Availability and Problems of Panel Study: In Case of the 17th Presidential Election in Korea (패널조사의 유용성과 문제점 : 17대 대선자료를 대상으로)

  • Lee, Hyeon-Woo
    • Survey Research
    • /
    • v.10 no.2
    • /
    • pp.23-43
    • /
    • 2009
  • The purpose of this paper is to explain characteristics of panel data and display the academic cases using panel data. Panel data have merit to control various variables to influence respondents' attitude and estimate the effects of independent variables researchers are interested in by surveying the same respondents several times. However, panel data also have problems such as contaminating the respondents and reducing the number of the respondents as survey conducted several times. In spite of a few inherent problems of panel data, informations that panel data provide are valuable and some research themes could not be possible without panel data. This paper investigates the relationship between interest in elections and voting. Electoral stimulation such as watching TV debates influences the consistent voting intended. But changing nonvoters who had voting intention but not vote are not influenced by the electoral stimulation.

  • PDF