This study aims to establish the effective political marketing strategy in Korean politics. With that aims, this study explores how Korean voters cognize their social cleavage structure and what their cognition has a causal relations with their politi...
This study aims to establish the effective political marketing strategy in Korean politics. With that aims, this study explores how Korean voters cognize their social cleavage structure and what their cognition has a causal relations with their political selection.
In accordance with this research questions, I assume that four aspects of social cleavage have different effects on the voter's political selection. In addition, I earnestly explored whether or not other variables affect voter's political selection, for example, voter's political inclination and attitude. And then, I designed two research models and verified this two models by LISREL 8.72 statistics program package.
In this thesis, I additionally used SPSS 14.0 statistics program in order to find the voter's differences of ideology disposition and social cleavage degree. Besides, this study examines whether or not voters’ cognition for the social cleavage structure has effects on their party and candidates selection.
Data were collected with 502 Seoul citizens, who were eligible to vote, and were sampled by quota sampling method.
The results showed that voters’ cognition of the social cleavage structure affected their criteria on candidates and party selection. Especially voters’ cognition of the economic cleavage structure was one of the most important variables on their candidate and party selection. Circumspectly speaking, this study revealed that voters’ cognition of economic cleavage structure has much more impact than that of regional cleavage and generation cleavage in selecting their candidates and party. However, this study shows that voters' cognition of ideology cleavage structure has an important influence on candidate's identificational selection. In addition, cognition of the regional cleavage still has an significant factor for candidate and party selection in Korean political conditions.
This study have some crucial implications in viewpoints of political marketing strategy and empirical study on social cleavage cognition. In this regards, If they establish the STP marketing strategy in political electioneering scene, people who have much to do with candidate and party or run for candidacy need to take into consideration that the status-quo for voter's cognition of economic cleavage and ideology cleavage has how much more significant effect on voter's selection. It requires that candidate and party emphasize what is the economic issue to be resolved through the political marketing strategy as well.
First of all, this study is characterized by the intuitive creativity, what is called, the advent of voter's cognition of the social cleavage structure, it is this thesis that voter's cognition of the social cleavage structure is taken account off or the first time, while the existing study has mainly focused on inferring the fact that the voting result reflects the social cleavage structure through the analysis of incumbent voting result, regardless of elaborating on latent voter's cognition power.
Futhermore, this study reasonably explored the causal relations among relevant kinds of variables, that is, the factors of social cleavage structure (composed of regional cleavage, generational cleavage, ideological cleavage, and economic cleavage), voter's political propensity(comprised political recognition and political attitude), and voter's political selection(consisted of candidate selection and party selection) in pursuit of a meaningful marketing model.
In this context, this study makes profound explanation for the total effect that is comprised direct effectand indirect effect obtaining from the effect-led coefficient. Marketing strategy could be substantially commanded by the very means of the above implications.
Particularly this study will be much conducive to forecasting which is the most influential variable in the social cleavage structure, for now it is made sure that economic cleavage have much more effect on selecting political candidate and party than that of regional and generational cleavage. Besides, other relevant factors' changing mode must be accompanied by the criteria on candidate and party selection in the sphere of morality, reliability, identity and capability and so on.
In sum, this study will offer a practical hand for the working level staffs and the incumbent persons for a election to penetrate much abyss into voter's mind, which is directed to political selection through this causal marketing model to lead to successful marketing strategy according to the facing political surroundings.
In other words, this study could make political marketing strategist discern high and low degree of voter's mind, that is keeping abreast of the cognition of social cleavage structure and the other relevant variables.
Eventually this study will be practically utilized as a milestone for both political candidate and party in case of a persistently adaptable marketing model, namely this fruitful causal marketing model could have a pivotal key role in effective political marketing strategy under Korean political circumstances.