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KMID : 1124020130290030273
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Korean Social Security Studies
2013 Volume.29 No. 3 p.273 ~ p.297
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Electoral competition of two party system and competing for popular policy: centered on the case of trying to introduce the ‘universal’ basic pension without a tax increase.
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Eun Min-Su
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Abstract
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Welfare issue has not risen to core agenda yet for a long time since democratization in korea. But the 18th presidential election showed welfare policy could be a main issue in election campaign like a advanced welfare states. Although Park geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party is authentic conservative candidate, she pledged to wefare policy positively unlike previous conservative candidate. Especially she pledged to introduce basic pension which played a meaningful role in mobilizing of elderly and middle class voter. Though the ruling Saenuri Party and opposing Democratic Party both ‘catch-all’ election campaign, “200 thousand won to all seniors over 65” commitment that conservative Saenuri Party present was very simple, powerful and impressive. To carry out those popular program, securing the funds for financing the programs was needed, but the conservative party present contradictory policy portfolios expanding the welfare without raising a tax only to win the election. After all it might end up seeking a anticlimax pattern by a ‘gradual decrease’ Paul Pierson pointed out. we should make sure of social, financial, political sustainability in introducing universal welfare policy as a basic pension. Therefore we must need to consider positively introducing the proportional system and parliamentary system to repeat a promise and break of these popular policy under competition in two party system, and to disperse the concentration of power and promote a competing over policy.
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KEYWORD
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basic pension, tax, financial stabilization, popular policy, presidential election, electoral competition
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