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An Empirical Research on the Effects of Trust on Political Participation in South Korea

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2017, 24(2), pp.5-39
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2017.24.2.001
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : May 8, 2017
  • Accepted : June 21, 2017
  • Published : June 30, 2017

Gidong Kim 1 Chung-Hee Lee 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research empirically analyzes the effects of trust on political participation of Korean people. Trust, in this paper, is explored into two parts: general trust(on our society and the public) and public trust(on the legislature, judiciary and the executive branch). Types of political participation are divided into voting, party participation, demonstrations, and contacts to public service providers. The results of analyses mainly provide three findings. Firstly, trust on our society has positive effects on citizens’ voting participation. Secondly, trust on the executive body has positive effects on contacts to public officials. Lastly, while education affects all types of political participation positively, the influence of age shows different direction depending on the types of political participation.

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