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The legislature and agenda politics of social welfare: a comparative analysis of authoritarian and democratic regimes in South Korea
- Source :
- Democratization
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis, 2019.
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Abstract
- The article mainly seeks to explain the legislature's preferences in social welfare before and after democratization using South Korea as a case study. Based on an original dataset that consists of all executive and of legislative branch-submitted bills between 1948 and 2016 - roughly 60,000- legislative priority on social welfare is compared over time, and tested using logistic regressions. The key focus of analysis is whether and how the level of democracy affected the degree and universality of social welfare priority. The findings show that the promotion of social welfare is positively related to higher levels of democracy in a continuous fashion, which clearly points to the need to avoid applying a simple regime dichotomy - authoritarian or democratic - when seeking to understand social welfare development. Going further, the article examines the legislature's priority in welfare issues within a presidential structure and under majoritarian electoral rule, at different levels of democracy. The result shows that the higher levels of democracy are, the more the legislative branch contributes to the overall salience of social welfare legislative initiatives as compared to the executive branch. Moreover, the legislative branch itself prioritizes a social welfare agenda - alongside democratic deepening - over other issues.
- Subjects :
- Sozialleistung
media_common.quotation_subject
Fallstudie
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
social benefits
Social Welfare
Südkorea
02 engineering and technology
Legislaturperiode
Sozialpolitik
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Social Policy
legislation
government policy
social policy
Politics
case study
Political science
South Korea
Regierungspolitik
050602 political science & public administration
Gesetzgebung
Democratization
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
politisches System
media_common
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Demokratisierung
political institution
05 social sciences
Authoritarianism
political system
system comparison
Legislature
democratization
Democracy
0506 political science
politische Institution
legislative term
Political economy
Political Science and International Relations
Systemvergleich
ddc:300
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik
social welfare
Sozialwesen
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Democratization
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7a516d646abd23d4f182b2305369aed3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9891539