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Replication Data for: In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea

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Title Replication Data for: In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MWS8QF
 
Creator Park, Sunkyoung
Hong, Ji Yeon
Yang, Hyunjoo
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study explores how authoritarian distributive policies may not only generate political support for the autocrat but may also help to sustain powerful and lasting authoritarian legacies. We use micro-level data from South Korea's New Village Movement, a 1970s rural development program implemented under dictator Park Chung-hee and widely touted as contributing to the country's rapid economic development. Our analysis shows that townships receiving larger cash transfers cast more votes for Park's incumbent party in the subsequent election. More importantly, we show that the effects of the subsidies still appeared almost four decades later in 2012, when the dictator's daughter was democratically elected as the president of South Korea. We show that these effects were not driven by villagers' long-term income gains or enhanced social capital due to the program, but instead by the unwavering support of the beneficiary villagers for the dictator, whose legacy remained strong long after democratization.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Authoritarian legacies
New village movement
 
Contributor Park, Sunkyoung
 
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