The Impact of Changing Political Positions on Charitable Donations: A Case Study of a Political Scandal in South Korea

Youngrok Kim () and Hoyong Jung
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Youngrok Kim: University of Hyogo
Hoyong Jung: Kookmin University

The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, 2023, vol. 17, issue 2, 145-154

Abstract: Abstract This study examines whether political ideology switching by moderates mediates their charitable donations. Using the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, the former conservative president of South Korea, as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that the charitable donations of those who changed their political ideology from moderate to progressive after the corruption scandal increased by 16.8–17.9%. A battery of robustness tests supports the basic results. These findings imply that political scandals can affect moderates’ charitable behavior through the channel of political ideology switching.

Keywords: Political ideology; Charitable behavior; Charitable donation; Political scandal; South Korea; National Survey of Tax and Benefit (NasTaB) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s12626-023-00141-3

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