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A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Power Structure on Party Politics and Regime Change in the Political Process: Focusing on main Political parties in Korea and the UK, 1979~1997

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2017, 32(1), pp.5-45
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2017.32.1.001
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation

Joo-Shin Chung 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to analyze and compare the impact of power structure on party politics and regime change in the political process: Focusing on main political parties in Korea and the UK for 18 years from 1979 to 1997. In addition, this study examined how the president under the presidential system and the prime minister of the parliamentary system exerted enormous power, whether the single-term system for the presidency of Korea as power structure was efficient and appropriate and how regime change carried out by the opposing parties in Korea and in the UK. For this purpose, the study employed institutional aspect (presidential system and parliamentary system) as key variables with leadership (power pursuit) and political culture (regionalism) as subsidiary variables in order to apply them in a mutually integrated method. As a result of examination, the impact of power structure of Korea and the UK on party politics and regime change is as follows. The president and the prime minister in both countries kept characteristics of power structure and reproduced regime with strong desire of power through the utilization of the ruling party and incapacitation strategy against the opposing parties. To the contrary, the opposing parties tried to seize the opportunity from mistake and maladministration of the ruling party. In this process, regionalism played a role in popular sentiment in case of Korea. As for the UK, the image of left and right parties was changed to the moderate catchall party which prompted a momentum to win the election.

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