Empirical Testing of Policy-Voting Model

Sung-Bok Park

International Review of Public Administration, 2002, vol. 7, issue 1, 147-157

Abstract: This paper applied the general spatial policy-voting model of elections developed by Enelow and Hinich (1984 and 1989a) to the Korean cultural setting, uncovered the predictive dimensions which are unobservable and used by people to estimate the candidates positions in the issue space, and tested several alternative voter utility models to see whether the issue-voting model would work in the Korean political setting. The spatial model and technique developed by them was very relevant to recovering the policy and political conflicts perceived by the Korean people and identifying the public interest for a society as a whole at a specific times. In this respect, I identified two predictive dimensions in the Korean politics and the pattern of political conflicts in the space. But, it was found out that the issue voting model did not hold for predicting people’s voting behavior in terms of our sample and voter utility models.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2002.10805000

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