Legislative Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung Kwon Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The South ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Legislative Parties

This chapter discusses the general characteristics of the South Korean National Assembly frequently observed since democratization in 1987. Among other things, the chapter primarily focuses on the two major actors in the South Korean parliamentary arena, standing committees and legislative parties. It starts by describing the evolution of the National Assembly, maintaining that the South Korean legislative process has been heavily dominated by the president and the executive branch in one way or another. This observation was never truer than during the authoritarian eras, but has also been the case since the start of the Sixth Republic. With respect to the major actors, political parties in the National Assembly can be said to play a predominant role, while the standing committees have atrophied despite their nominal centrality and positional importance. All the explanations in this chapter suggest that the so-called inter-party consultative system more often than not gives way to majoritarianism in the actual legislative process when the two modes collide.

PRESIDENTIALIZATION AND PROCEDURAL RULES CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Hojun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
The South ◽  
Majority Party ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Procedural Reform ◽  
Rules Changes

AbstractThe common assumption of legislative politics is that the majority party structures procedural rules to suit its interests. In a presidentialized context, however, presidential electoral incentives prevail over majority party's incentives when voting on procedural rules changes and the threat of punishing majority-party defectors is not credible when those defectors vote with the presidential candidate. To test these claims, I analyze the case of the procedural reform in the South Korean National Assembly. The case study reveals that 1) the leading presidential candidate of the ruling majority Saenuri Party compromised on the procedural reform bill that imposes restrictions on the majority party's cartel arrangement due to presidential electoral incentives; 2) a significant number of Saenuri Party members defected from the majority of their co-partisans to vote with the presidential candidate; and 3) career advancement ratio and re-nomination ratios demonstrate that those defectors were not punished afterwards.

A study on the legislative process of the Republic of Korea

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Chin
Keyword(s):  
Executive Branch ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Controlling Mechanism ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Characteristic Features

In view of the importance of Parliamentary System and legislation, this paper tries to examine the formal legislative procedure and its actual workings in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea in order to find out some characteristic features of the legislative process and to suggest some improvements of the current practices. We found that the characteristic features of legislative procedure in the Korean National Assembly are as follows; First, deliberations at the standing committees occupy the central importance in the entire legislative process. Second, those legislative procedures which require open-door sessions have usually been inaccessible by the public due to short notice and lack of practice of public hearings. And thus the sub-committees have been held either at a closed-session, or at a corner of the lobby, excluding many aspirants of observers. Third, judicial review and presidential veto as a check and controlling mechanism on the law making process have played very insignificant role. Fourth, the Executive Branch has the superior position in the legislative process compared with the Legislative Branch; that is, the Executive Branch can exert greater influence in the submission, deliberation, and passage of the bills. Finally, the 38.1% 1,467 laws of the total 3,853 laws promulgated by the president have been propose by non-representatives. This may be one of the reasons why the general public has low respect and trust in the legislative process and the parliamentary democracy.

Multiculturalism as “New Enlightenment”: The Myth of Hypergamy and Social Integration in Punch

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Seung Chung
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Male Bonding ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This article examines the commercially successful multicultural film Punch (Wan-dŭk i, Yi Han, 2011) as an example of new “enlightenment” (kaemong) cinema, one that—like its precedents in the South Korean Golden Age cinema of the 1950s and 1960s—supports the official government policy. While classic enlightenment films made during the Cold War era endorsed state-sanctioned narratives of anticommunism, modernization, and development, Punch toes the line of the South Korean government’s millennial project of multiculturalism (tamunhwa). Despite its intent to create a hopeful, affirmative message of tolerance and inclusion, Punch ironically silences the dissenting voice of a migrant bride character (played by Jasmine Lee, a Philippine-born TV personality-turned-representative in the National Assembly) who remains marginalized and peripheral in the masculine narrative wherein male bonding and mentoring reign supreme.

The South Korean national assembly elections 1996

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Peter Morriss
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean

The South Korean national assembly elections 1992

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (115) ◽  
pp. 60-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Morriss
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean

Continuities in the Party System of the Republic of Korea from the Authoritarian to the Democratic Era: The Conservative Party(ies) in the National Assembly between 1972 and 1997

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Vicent Plana Aranda
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Party System ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Name Changes

In scholarship about the South Korean party system, the two main political parties are seen as organizations with a certain degree of continuity despite constant party name changes, mergers and splits, but, at the same time, as lacking institutionalization because of those constant changes. This article argues that, after the democratic transition, an important part of the authoritarian institutional setting and of the political elites of the previous period had a continuation in the new system. To prove this argument this article looks at the so-called conservative party(ies) between 1972 and 1997 and traces its continuity in the National Assembly.

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