Presidentialism in Korea from Comparative Institutional Analysis

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ontrary to the general understanding among area specialists and the local people themselves that Korean president is “strong,” s/he often fails in getting her policy agenda realized by the legislature. This seemingly counterintuitive fact is because her partisan power is not as strong as her constitutional power. In the institutional settings after the democratization in the 1980’s, Korean president is prone to face the dilemma in which either the presidential party’s majority in the legislature or her control over the party, constitutive of partisan power, is sacrificed due to the non-concurrent, but different electoral cycle between presidential and legislative elections in different presidencies, a unique institutional characteristics to Korea.