Men, Money, and Mistrust: The Story Behind South Korea’s Conservative Uprising

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Abstract: Studies carried out in previous decades saw women as agents of change for a gender gap in electoral behavior. The recent observation is that the partisanship gap is mainly a function of women’s swing to the left. Here, it is examined whether this phenomenon of the modern gender gap, with women more left-leaning, has become apparent in South Korea. The paper draws on evidence from the 2003-2021 Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) to investigate the pattern of gender differences in party identification. This study establishes that gender differences in partisanship in South Korea have been realigning, with men shifting toward the right, and delves into the reason for this development, especially focusing on the role of unemployment. Through logistic models of party preferences, this article concludes that unemployment is positively correlated with male conservatism in South Korea after 2016.

Author	Lee, Yoojung
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Stanford Global Studies, Center for East Asian Studies
Thesis advisor	Shin, Gi-Wook

Subject	Stanford Global Studies
Subject	East Asian Studies
Subject	Policy
Subject	Asia
Subject	Korea (South)
Subject	Gender
Subject	Politics and government
Subject	Elections
Subject	Voting
Subject	Polarization (Social sciences)
Subject	Partisanship
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/kf263hv6756
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kf263hv6756

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Preferred citation: Lee, Y. (2023). Men, Money, and Mistrust: The Story Behind South Korea’s Conservative Uprising. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/kf263hv6756. https://doi.org/10.25740/kf263hv6756.

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