This paper tried to apply the general spatial policy-voting model of elections developed by Enelow and Hinich(1984) to the Korean cultural setting, to uncover the predictive dimensions which are unobservable and used by people to estimate the candidat...
This paper tried to apply the general spatial policy-voting model of elections developed by Enelow and Hinich(1984) to the Korean cultural setting, to uncover the predictive dimensions which are unobservable and used by people to estimate the candidates positions in the issue space, and to test several alternative voter utility models to see whether the issue-voting model holds in the Korean politics. The spatial model and technique developed by them was very relevant to recovering the policy and political conflicts perceived by the Korean people and identifying two predictive dimensions in the Korea politics and the pattern of political conflicts in the space. But, it was found out that the issue voting model did not hold for prediction people's voting behavior in this case.