TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing legislative shirking in a new setting
T2 - The case of lame duck sessions in the Korean National Assembly
AU - Koo, Bon Sang
AU - Kim, Junseok
AU - Choi, Jun Young
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - This paper aims to test two types of legislative shirking in a new democracy, South Korea. Using the lame-duck sessions of the Korean National Assembly, we test whether a legislator shirks in voting participation and in voting decisions. We weave two competing motivations of legislative shirking in voting participation - that to secure more leisure time and that to utilize the last, valuable voting opportunity - into a synthetic hypothesis and test it with two-part hurdle models. To test a shirking in voting participation hypothesis, we analyze legislators' choices on bills that are supposedly related to the interests of constituents or political parties. Empirical results strongly support our shirking in voting participation claims, while only partial evidence is found on shirking in voting decisions. The findings suggest that, besides the trade-off between labor and leisure, some legislators deem the lame-duck sessions an opportunity to express their own preferences unconstrained.
AB - This paper aims to test two types of legislative shirking in a new democracy, South Korea. Using the lame-duck sessions of the Korean National Assembly, we test whether a legislator shirks in voting participation and in voting decisions. We weave two competing motivations of legislative shirking in voting participation - that to secure more leisure time and that to utilize the last, valuable voting opportunity - into a synthetic hypothesis and test it with two-part hurdle models. To test a shirking in voting participation hypothesis, we analyze legislators' choices on bills that are supposedly related to the interests of constituents or political parties. Empirical results strongly support our shirking in voting participation claims, while only partial evidence is found on shirking in voting decisions. The findings suggest that, besides the trade-off between labor and leisure, some legislators deem the lame-duck sessions an opportunity to express their own preferences unconstrained.
KW - lame-duck sessions
KW - Legislative shirking
KW - the Korean National Assembly
KW - two-part hurdle models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061456296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1468109918000403
DO - 10.1017/S1468109918000403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061456296
SN - 1468-1099
VL - 20
SP - 33
EP - 52
JO - Japanese Journal of Political Science
JF - Japanese Journal of Political Science
IS - 1
ER -