Eunjung Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4074971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eunjung Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eunjung |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Origins of the Park Jung-hee Syndrome in South Korea
In the past few decades, post-democratization politics in South Korea have witnessed an upsurge in authoritarian nostalgia, called the “Park Jung-hee syndrome.” This paper examines the origins of public nostalgia for the authoritarian dictator by putting two theoretical arguments, i.e., the socialization thesis and the system output thesis, to an empirical test. This paper utilizes the 2010 Korea Democracy Barometer from the Korea Barometer and t…
Confucian Legacies and the Meaning of Democracy in South Korea: A Cultural Interpretation
Whether Confucianism is compatible with liberal democracy has been a topic of heated debate among scholars and politicians alike, but with little meticulous empirical analysis. The incompatibility thesis, represented by the Asian value argument, suggests that as a political culture Confucianism hinders the deepening of democracy in Confucian Asian countries. The compatibility or convergence thesis, in contrast, argues that Confucianism is compati…
The Origins of Political Trust in East Asian Democracies: Psychological, Cultural, and Institutional Arguments
While the importance of social and political trust has been well documented, there is a lack of scholarly consensus over where trust originates. This article tests three theoretical arguments – social-psychological, social-cultural, and political institutional – on the origin of political trust against three East Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). The empirical analysis from the AsiaBarometer survey illustrates that political ins…
The Decline and Resurgence of the Kuomintang in Taiwan
What explains the decline and resurgence of dominant parties? While economic performance, policy adaptation, electoral rules, and generational replacement have been offered as common causes for the decline of one‐party dominance, the case of Taiwan challenges those prevailing explanations. This paper focuses on how partisan splits from the Kuomintang (KMT) and their (dis)coordination with the KMT first undermined and then recovered the KMT's domi…
Political Issues, Generation Gap, and Voting Behavior in South Korea: The 2010 Seoul Mayoral Election
Political corruption, economy, and citizens' evaluation of democracy in South Korea
South Korean politics has been haunted by numerous corruption scandals as well as the prosecution of politicians and their cronies for their corruption. Yet despite the prevalence and salience of political corruption, many citizens of South Korea tend to overlook the problem by continuing to support corrupt politicians and administrations. This study defines under what circumstances political corruption shapes citizens' judgment of government and…
Liberal reform, political corruption, and socio-economic impacts in Asia and Eastern Europe
How does economic liberalization — or a country’s integration into the global economy — affect its economic performance and the distribution of wealth? There have been heated debates on positive and negative sides of globalization. This article seeks to fill the existing gap in the study of globalization and its socio-economic outcomes by focusing on the mediating effect of political corruption in countries from Asia and Eastern Europe. The autho…
Economic Voting in Taiwan: The Significance of Education and Lifetime Economic Experiences
An analysis of the 1996 and 2004 Taiwan presidential elections demonstrates that the voters' overall economic experiences under the dominant Kuomintang and level of education mediated the effect of short-term economic conditions on individual vote choice before and after the first power transition
Political corruption, economic performance, and electoral outcomes: A Cross-National Analysis
The current study examines how the incumbent government's economic performance plays a role in mediating the impact of political corruption on electoral outcomes in 115 developing countries with relatively higher levels of corruption than Western consolidated democracies. Borrowing theoretical insights from the information-processing theory of voting, this study finds that political corruption becomes a formative electoral factor when the regime …
Political corruption, economic performance, and electoral outcomes: A Cross-National Analysis
The current study examines how the incumbent government's economic performance plays a role in mediating the impact of political corruption on electoral outcomes in 115 developing countries with relatively higher levels of corruption than Western consolidated democracies. Borrowing theoretical insights from the information-processing theory of voting, this study finds that political corruption becomes a formative electoral factor when the regime …
The Origins of Political Trust in East Asian Democracies: Psychological, Cultural, and Institutional Arguments
While the importance of social and political trust has been well documented, there is a lack of scholarly consensus over where trust originates. This article tests three theoretical arguments – social-psychological, social-cultural, and political institutional – on the origin of political trust against three East Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). The empirical analysis from the AsiaBarometer survey illustrates that political ins…
Political corruption, economy, and citizens' evaluation of democracy in South Korea
South Korean politics has been haunted by numerous corruption scandals as well as the prosecution of politicians and their cronies for their corruption. Yet despite the prevalence and salience of political corruption, many citizens of South Korea tend to overlook the problem by continuing to support corrupt politicians and administrations. This study defines under what circumstances political corruption shapes citizens' judgment of government and…
Liberal reform, political corruption, and socio-economic impacts in Asia and Eastern Europe
How does economic liberalization — or a country’s integration into the global economy — affect its economic performance and the distribution of wealth? There have been heated debates on positive and negative sides of globalization. This article seeks to fill the existing gap in the study of globalization and its socio-economic outcomes by focusing on the mediating effect of political corruption in countries from Asia and Eastern Europe. The autho…
The Origins of the Park Jung-hee Syndrome in South Korea
In the past few decades, post-democratization politics in South Korea have witnessed an upsurge in authoritarian nostalgia, called the “Park Jung-hee syndrome.” This paper examines the origins of public nostalgia for the authoritarian dictator by putting two theoretical arguments, i.e., the socialization thesis and the system output thesis, to an empirical test. This paper utilizes the 2010 Korea Democracy Barometer from the Korea Barometer and t…
Political Issues, Generation Gap, and Voting Behavior in South Korea: The 2010 Seoul Mayoral Election
Economic Voting in Taiwan: The Significance of Education and Lifetime Economic Experiences
An analysis of the 1996 and 2004 Taiwan presidential elections demonstrates that the voters' overall economic experiences under the dominant Kuomintang and level of education mediated the effect of short-term economic conditions on individual vote choice before and after the first power transition
Economic Voting in Taiwan: The Significance of Education and Lifetime Economic Experiences
An analysis of the 1996 and 2004 Taiwan presidential elections demonstrates that the voters' overall economic experiences under the dominant Kuomintang and level of education mediated the effect of short-term economic conditions on individual vote choice before and after the first power transition
Political corruption, economic performance, and electoral outcomes: A Cross-National Analysis
The current study examines how the incumbent government's economic performance plays a role in mediating the impact of political corruption on electoral outcomes in 115 developing countries with relatively higher levels of corruption than Western consolidated democracies. Borrowing theoretical insights from the information-processing theory of voting, this study finds that political corruption becomes a formative electoral factor when the regime …
Liberal reform, political corruption, and socio-economic impacts in Asia and Eastern Europe
How does economic liberalization — or a country’s integration into the global economy — affect its economic performance and the distribution of wealth? There have been heated debates on positive and negative sides of globalization. This article seeks to fill the existing gap in the study of globalization and its socio-economic outcomes by focusing on the mediating effect of political corruption in countries from Asia and Eastern Europe. The autho…
Political corruption, economy, and citizens' evaluation of democracy in South Korea
South Korean politics has been haunted by numerous corruption scandals as well as the prosecution of politicians and their cronies for their corruption. Yet despite the prevalence and salience of political corruption, many citizens of South Korea tend to overlook the problem by continuing to support corrupt politicians and administrations. This study defines under what circumstances political corruption shapes citizens' judgment of government and…
Political Issues, Generation Gap, and Voting Behavior in South Korea: The 2010 Seoul Mayoral Election
The Decline and Resurgence of the Kuomintang in Taiwan
What explains the decline and resurgence of dominant parties? While economic performance, policy adaptation, electoral rules, and generational replacement have been offered as common causes for the decline of one‐party dominance, the case of Taiwan challenges those prevailing explanations. This paper focuses on how partisan splits from the Kuomintang (KMT) and their (dis)coordination with the KMT first undermined and then recovered the KMT's domi…
The Origins of Political Trust in East Asian Democracies: Psychological, Cultural, and Institutional Arguments
While the importance of social and political trust has been well documented, there is a lack of scholarly consensus over where trust originates. This article tests three theoretical arguments – social-psychological, social-cultural, and political institutional – on the origin of political trust against three East Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). The empirical analysis from the AsiaBarometer survey illustrates that political ins…
Confucian Legacies and the Meaning of Democracy in South Korea: A Cultural Interpretation
Whether Confucianism is compatible with liberal democracy has been a topic of heated debate among scholars and politicians alike, but with little meticulous empirical analysis. The incompatibility thesis, represented by the Asian value argument, suggests that as a political culture Confucianism hinders the deepening of democracy in Confucian Asian countries. The compatibility or convergence thesis, in contrast, argues that Confucianism is compati…
The Origins of the Park Jung-hee Syndrome in South Korea
In the past few decades, post-democratization politics in South Korea have witnessed an upsurge in authoritarian nostalgia, called the “Park Jung-hee syndrome.” This paper examines the origins of public nostalgia for the authoritarian dictator by putting two theoretical arguments, i.e., the socialization thesis and the system output thesis, to an empirical test. This paper utilizes the 2010 Korea Democracy Barometer from the Korea Barometer and t…
Political science (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works)