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PARTY ACTIVISTS IN SOUTH KOREA AND MONGOLIA: PROGRAMMATIC LINKAGES AND POLICY MOTIVATIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2018

Sejin Koo
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Abstract

Party activists are important for building party–voter links. This study focuses on the motivations of these activists and the hypothesis that economic factors are associated with more programmatic and policy-driven platforms. I examine a novel comparative survey data set of party activists collected in multiple districts in South Korea and Mongolia to determine whether national economic development, the local economy, or individual income shapes activist motivations. The results challenge the economic account and, instead, shed light on the importance of party characteristics, such as size, ideology, and whether a party has its roots in authoritarianism.

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party activistlinkage mechanismmotivationthird-wave democracySouth KoreaMongolia
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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , November 2018 , pp. 367 - 388
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 2018 

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