Which political parties various social groups support in democratic countries in an important research topic in political science. Through empirical analysis, this study attempted to find the direction and intensity of party support of social groups c...
Which political parties various social groups support in democratic countries in an important research topic in political science. Through empirical analysis, this study attempted to find the direction and intensity of party support of social groups classified according to demographic characteristics in Korean.
Research questions to address this topic are as follows. First, which political party does the social groups categorized by demographic characteristics support and what is its strength of support? Second, which social group changes its support for political parties? Does the change of support take place between political parties, or does it support the preferred party at some times and flow into the nonpartisan class at other times? Third, which social group's change in support affects the rise and fall of each political party's approval rating? The analysis subject of this study is the party approval rating of the two major parties, the Democratic Party of Korea and the People Power Party. This study utilized a total of 233 opinion polls conducted by Gallup Korea every week from May 2017 to May 2022