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Local Social Supports and Political Participation

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2017, 13(9), pp.95-107
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2017.13.9.95
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : August 30, 2017
  • Accepted : September 14, 2017
  • Published : September 30, 2017

Kim SANG-WEON 1

1동의대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Relying upon the recent sociology and political science literature on social support and social capital theory, this study tested the hypotheses that the areas with higher levels of social support and social capital have higher voting rates in election. As voting participation rates vary widely in regions in Korea, the level of social support and social capital provided by local government also varies by their financial and social condition. Using the data collected on 229 regions in Korea, the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression was used to estimate the effects of social support and social capital on the regional voting rates in election, after controlling for other structural variables. As expected, the results provided some partial support for direct effects of social capital on the voting rates. However, there are no significant direct effects of social support on the voting rates.

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