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Evaluation of the initial reform of the institutional basis for personalized politics after democratization - Analysis of former President Roh Moo-hyun's strategy for electoral system reform and party system change

  • Analyses & Alternatives
  • Abbr : A&A
  • 2024, 8(3), pp.99~124
  • DOI : 10.22931/aanda.2024.8.3.004
  • Publisher : Korea Consensus Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : September 22, 2024
  • Accepted : October 12, 2024
  • Published : October 31, 2024

WooJin Kang 1

1Kyungpook National University

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The most essential task that ran through former President Roh Moo-hyun's political career was overcoming regionalism and transformation of the regional party system. After Roh Moo-hyun entered politics and before coming to power, he tried to overcome regionalism with a strategy of directly challenging regionalism by running for office in the Busan region. After winning the 16th presidential election, he sought to overcome regionalism and transforming the party system by proposing a grand coalition to transfer power to the main opposition party on the premise of reforming the electoral system. Roh Moo-hyun's strategy was to enable the two major parties to secure seats in each other's strongholds by introducing a highly proportional electoral system. However Roh Moo-hyun's strategy was not realized due to opposition from inside and outside the party and rejection by the Grand National Party. Roh Moo-hyun's strategy had a path-dependent long-term impact on subsequent Korean politics.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.