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Hwalmin Jin
The study investigates the influence of electoral concerns at the district level onwar issues that examine the roll-call votes of lawmakers in the NationalAssembly of South Korea. The central claim of the article is that South Koreanlegislators are sensitive to electoral concerns when deciding to vote for warbills. Scholars suggest several factors, but none sufficiently explain the roll-call behaviour of legislators on national security issues. An empirical analysisof the 16th and 17th national assemblies between 2003 and 2007 revealsthat liberal government party members are more likely to defect from thepresident and party leadership as district competitiveness increases, whereasparty-list members are not more likely to defect. Public opinion on war alsoinfluences the roll-call behaviour of liberal government party members. Thestudy offers new empirical evidence that party cohesion is not alwaysmaintained on all issues outside of western democracies.
