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How does legislative behavior change when the country becomes democratic? The case of South Korea
- Source :
- European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, 2021, 69, pp.102026. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102026⟩, European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 69, pp.102026. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102026⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; The Political Legislation Cycle theory predicts a peak of legislative production in the pre-electoral period, when legislators focus on voters’ welfare to be reelected. This paper verifies the theory on South Korean legislative production (1948–2016); it is the first test of the theory in a country undergoing a process of democratization, thus providing evidence relevant also for the conditional political cycles literature. Two insofar untested hypotheses are verified: 1) peaks of legislative production should increase with the degree of democracy; 2) as the party system and the mechanisms of legislative checks and balances develop, the PLC should become more evident in bills of legislative rather than executive's initiative. A hurdle model estimated on both laws of parliamentary proposal and of government assignment lends empirical support to both hypotheses, with the noticeable feature that PLC in Korea appear more in the form of an upward trend than of pre-electoral peaks. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making/D.D7.D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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Legislation
Autocracy
Hurdle model
Zero inflation
Over-dispersion
Empirical research
Political science
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Democratization
Democratic transition
050207 economics
Political legislation cycles
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Government
05 social sciences
Separation of powers
Legislature
16. Peace & justice
JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt/H.H6.H61 - Budget • Budget Systems
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Executive vs. parliamentary legislative initiative
Democracy
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics/C.C4.C49 - Other
0506 political science
Political economy
Political Science and International Relations
Conditional political cycles
JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt/H.H6.H62 - Deficit • Surplus
Political legislation cycles, conditional political cycles, democratic transition, autocracy, executive vs. parliamentary legislative initiative, hurdle model, zero inflation, over-dispersion
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01762680
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, 2021, 69, pp.102026. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102026⟩, European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 69, pp.102026. ⟨10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102026⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....74f5dc84e6f2933f37089bf0bebf252e