한국과 미국의 정당 대의성 비교

Abstract

This paper adopt three concepts of representativeness, namely 'delegate', 'trustee' and 'politico', as the theoretical framework. The US Congress has a strong tradition of delegate, rather than trustee. The result of Rice index analysis is that there was a significant difference in autonomy between the political parties of South Korea and the United States. First, the Rice index average(0.847) of the two parties in the US House of Representatives was lower than that(0.953) of South Korea's National Assembly. This means that the Korea's political parties have a strong cohesion than the United States. Members of the US House of representatives who have the characteristics of a delegate showed a relatively high autonomy compared to those of the Korea National Assembly. Secondly, this research tells us that the US Democratic Party and the New Politics Alliance for Democracy(current The Minjoo Party of Korea) which have relatively more liberal ideology than the Republicans and the Saenuri Party have strong autonomy compared to the other parties.