Party Mergers and Splits in New Democracies: The Case of South Korea (1987-2007)

• Autores: Kyungmee Park
• Localización: Government and opposition: An international journal of comparative politics, ISSN 0017-257X, Nº. 4, 2010, págs. 531-552
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study explores how a party's organizational mode affects its stability in new democracies. A party organization was stable under these three conditions: when the relationship from lower to upper organizations has institutionalized a strong vertical organization mode; when the central party power is concentrated on the leadership; and when the leadership has been safely shifted after elections. In the case of two ruling parties in South Korea, each mode produced differences in party stability. The dissimilar organization modes of two parties resulted in different organizational stability.