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The Impact of Changing Political Positions on Charitable Donations: A Case Study of a Political Scandal in South Korea

Authors: Youngrok Kim, Hoyong Jung

Published in: The Review of Socionetwork Strategies | Issue 2/2023

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This study examines whether political ideology switching by moderates mediates their charitable donations. Using the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, the former conservative president of South Korea, as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that the charitable donations of those who changed their political ideology from moderate to progressive after the corruption scandal increased by 16.8–17.9%. A battery of robustness tests supports the basic results. These findings imply that political scandals can affect moderates’ charitable behavior through the channel of political ideology switching.

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This is based on raw data (2001–2019) from the Center for Philanthropy, the Beautiful Foundation.

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The Candlelight Movement was a sustained series of protests that took place from November 2016 to March 2017. The protests were organized by a coalition of over 1,500 civic organizations motivated by the President Park scandal. The protests were largely peaceful and characterized by their use of social media [20].

As shown in Fig. 1, a larger proportion of moderates changed their position to progressivism after the political scandal, but others maintained their ideology.

Several factors may constitute the underlying mechanisms. According to Farmer et al. (2020), progressives who subscribe to a social justice viewpoint tend to help many people.

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Title: The Impact of Changing Political Positions on Charitable Donations: A Case Study of a Political Scandal in South Korea
Authors: Youngrok Kim
Hoyong Jung
Publication date: 06-07-2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Published in: The Review of Socionetwork Strategies / Issue 2/2023
Print ISSN: 2523-3173
Electronic ISSN: 1867-3236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-023-00141-3

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