Vote Choices in the 20th National Assembly Election : Retrospective Voting and Three Different Referenda

Jin, Jang Seung

doi:10.18854/kpsr.2016.50.4.007

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“…The election took place at the dawn of the corruption scandals involving the incumbent President Park, with public discontent against the sitting president accumulating since the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014 12 . Park's cronyism and lack of communication with the public dragged down her approval ratings to 30 percent, making the legislative election into a “referendum on Park” (Jang 2016). Factional conflicts within the Saenuri Party (the ALP party's name at the time) and the creation of a new center-right party further triggered ALP partisans to react more harshly to corruption convictions compared to previous elections.…”

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Authoritarian Legacies and Partisan Bias in Corruption Voting

Kim-Leffingwell

2023

J. East Asian Stud.

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What explains the lack of electoral consequences for corrupt politicians? Building on studies of motivated reasoning and asymmetric partisan bias, this article highlights the importance of partisan differences in how voters interpret corruption convictions and make voting decisions. I contend that in post-authoritarian democracies, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties (ALPs) are less likely to punish corrupt copartisan incumbents compared to supporters of other parties faced with equally corrupt copartisan incumbents. While voters of all kinds appear likely to ignore corruption among copartisan incumbents, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties are particularly likely to do so. Using original datasets from South Korea, this study shows empirical evidence of the lack of corruption voting for ALP partisans across three legislative elections. This article further finds partisan discrepancies and a striking lack of corruption voting among authoritarian legacy partisans.

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Section: Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%