How does legislative behavior change when the country becomes democratic? The case of South Korea

Francesco Lagona and Fabio Padovano
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Francesco Lagona: DSP, University of Roma Tre, Italy

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Abstract: The Political Legislation Cycle theory predicts a peak of legislative production in the preelectoral period, when legislators focus on voters’ welfare to be reelected. This paper verifies the theory on South Korean legislative production (1948-2016) and is the first test of the theory in a country undergoing a process of democratization. Two insofar untested hypotheses are being verified: 1) peaks of legislative production should increase with the degree of democracy; 2) as the party system and the mechanisms of legislative checks and balances develop, the PLC should become more evident in bills of legislative rather than executive’s initiative. A hurdle model estimated on both laws of parliamentary proposal and of government assignment lends empirical support to both hypotheses, with the noticeable feature that PLC in Korea appear more in the form of an upward trend than of pre-electoral peaks.

Keywords: Political legislation cycles; conditional political cycles; democratic transition; autocracy; executive vs. parliamentary legislative initiative; hurdle model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C49 D72 H61 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09
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