The Influence of Urban Planning-Related Pledge Budget on Local Election Votes: A City Case in Korea

Abstract

Most election pledges require a significant budget for their implementation. In the case of a candidate for the head of a local government who presented his pledges related to urban planning by subdividing them into voting districts, we tested how the size of the budget committed to the voters affected the votes. Based on the urban planning-related pledged budget, the economic utility value of one vote was estimated to be about 2050 USD. In elections for local government heads, as the pledged budget related to urban planning increased, the vote percentage and the degree of competition for votes increased positively. Moreover, when the pledged budget related to urban planning exceeded a certain level, the slope of the vote percentage curve tended to be gentle. The slope of the curve is steep in the section up to the pledged budget of 50 million USD, and the slope becomes gentle in the next section. This study was based on a specific case that was limited in terms of space and time, and it was limited to analyzing only the election pledge and election result data without considering the socioeconomic background factors of the voters.

Analysis of an Urban Development Boundary Policy in China Based on the IAD Framework

“…Therefore, the regional economic situation, urbanization, and natural resources can be used to describe the biophysical condition [31,32]. The attributes of a community involve the hierarchical structure of the power of the government and features of interest groups that are most likely to be affected by a proposed intervention or affect the results of the intervention [33,34]. Changes in the behavior of interest groups as they adjust to and look for the opportunities presented by multi-area policymaking may threaten existing communities.…”