Party Competition Structure and Legislative Productivity of Local Councils: From the 4th to 6th Local Councils in Korea

The Korean local autonomy system has a unique feature in that it grants councils, mayors, and governors the right to submit bills. Because of Korea’s extensive experience with authoritarianism, relative legislative productivity assembly respect head group—that is, person who initiative—has become an evaluation criterion for activities councils Korea. In this study, we address question why individual appears be cause problematic awareness situations where legal institutional conditions—for example, organization function operating methods, support systems—are very similar. Accordingly, regarding 4th 6th parliamentary period (2006–2018) 15 parliaments, panel data analysis was performed understand how structure party competition between heads group parliament within affects from macro perspective. It found mayors increases when there is divided government rather than unified one seat share first increases. However, also greater difference second parliament, higher index concentration lower parliament. political reality, confirmed at level does not necessarily lead decrease productivity. significance study these ideas were verified.