지역주의의 정치적 정향과 태도

Abstract

This study compares political orientations and attitudes of four major regions in korea, and finds that while general orientations and ideologies hardly differ among the regions, noticeable regional differences exit in issue position and partisan attitude. Homam people tend to be favorable toward government policies and performances of which youngnam people are critical. Two-stage least square results measuring the reciprocal relationship between attitudes and partisan support show that regional attitude differences are primarily the result of persuasion effects of partisan support. People take their party’s issue position as their own because they like the party, but not vice versa. Consequently regionalistic voting, the dominant voting in Korea since democratization, is unrelated to issue or performance voting.