Won‐taek Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Won‐taek Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Won‐taek |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG W T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyungnam University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Ideology Divides Generations: The 2002 and 2004 South Korean Elections
An interesting phenomenon in recent South Korean electoral politics is the generation gap. In the 2002 presidential and the 2004 National Assembly elections, voting behaviour was sharply split between different age groups. A main question of this article is to figure out the underlying characteristics of the generational differences in the two elections and of the ideological division in the South Korean context. Findings show that the generation…
Protest Voting and Abstention Under Plurality Rule Elections: An Alternative Public Choice Approach
Voting decisions are influenced by electoral systems, particularly when voters are dissatisfied. Plurality rule electoral systems tend to restrict the number of effective parties. As a consequence, people may often vote for a party not because of its attraction but because of a lack of a genuinely preferred alternative - to wit, protest voting. Similarly people will often confront specific choices between abstaining and an unsatisfactory vote in …
The 1997 presidential election in South Korea
Ministerial Resignations 1945–97
This article reports on data collected on ministerial resignations and non‐resignations 1945–1997. It analyses the reasons why ministers resign and patterns that emerge in terms of the types of issues that are more likely to lead to resignation, and variances between different Prime Ministers, parties and over time. It provides the first fully quantified analysis of ministerial resignations in Britain in the post‐war period to enhance the impress…
The rise of a third party in South Korea: The Unification National Party in the 1992 National Assembly election
Protest Voting and Abstention Under Plurality Rule Elections: An Alternative Public Choice Approach
Voting decisions are influenced by electoral systems, particularly when voters are dissatisfied. Plurality rule electoral systems tend to restrict the number of effective parties. As a consequence, people may often vote for a party not because of its attraction but because of a lack of a genuinely preferred alternative - to wit, protest voting. Similarly people will often confront specific choices between abstaining and an unsatisfactory vote in …
Ministerial Resignations 1945–97
This article reports on data collected on ministerial resignations and non‐resignations 1945–1997. It analyses the reasons why ministers resign and patterns that emerge in terms of the types of issues that are more likely to lead to resignation, and variances between different Prime Ministers, parties and over time. It provides the first fully quantified analysis of ministerial resignations in Britain in the post‐war period to enhance the impress…
How Ideology Divides Generations: The 2002 and 2004 South Korean Elections
An interesting phenomenon in recent South Korean electoral politics is the generation gap. In the 2002 presidential and the 2004 National Assembly elections, voting behaviour was sharply split between different age groups. A main question of this article is to figure out the underlying characteristics of the generational differences in the two elections and of the ideological division in the South Korean context. Findings show that the generation…
The 1997 presidential election in South Korea
The rise of a third party in South Korea: The Unification National Party in the 1992 National Assembly election
Ministerial Resignations 1945–97
This article reports on data collected on ministerial resignations and non‐resignations 1945–1997. It analyses the reasons why ministers resign and patterns that emerge in terms of the types of issues that are more likely to lead to resignation, and variances between different Prime Ministers, parties and over time. It provides the first fully quantified analysis of ministerial resignations in Britain in the post‐war period to enhance the impress…
The rise of a third party in South Korea: The Unification National Party in the 1992 National Assembly election
The 1997 presidential election in South Korea
Protest Voting and Abstention Under Plurality Rule Elections: An Alternative Public Choice Approach
Voting decisions are influenced by electoral systems, particularly when voters are dissatisfied. Plurality rule electoral systems tend to restrict the number of effective parties. As a consequence, people may often vote for a party not because of its attraction but because of a lack of a genuinely preferred alternative - to wit, protest voting. Similarly people will often confront specific choices between abstaining and an unsatisfactory vote in …
How Ideology Divides Generations: The 2002 and 2004 South Korean Elections
An interesting phenomenon in recent South Korean electoral politics is the generation gap. In the 2002 presidential and the 2004 National Assembly elections, voting behaviour was sharply split between different age groups. A main question of this article is to figure out the underlying characteristics of the generational differences in the two elections and of the ideological division in the South Korean context. Findings show that the generation…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Voting (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)