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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2019.32.4.503

Estimation of the survival function of the legislative process in Korea: based on the experiences of the 17th, 18th, and 19th National Assembly of Korea  

Yun, Yeonggyu (Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
Cho, Yunsoo (National Human Resources Development Institute, Ministry of Personnel Management)
Jung, Hye-Young (Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.32, no.4, 2019 , pp. 503-515 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study we estimate the survival function of duration of the legislative processes in the 17th, 18th, and 19th National Assembly of Korea, and further analyze effects of the political situation variables on the legislative process. We define the termination of legislative process from a novel perspective to alleviate issues of dependency between censoring and failure in the data. We also show that the proportional hazards assumption does not hold for the data, and analyze data employing a log-normal accelerated failure time model. The policy areas of law agendas are shown to affect the speed of legislative process in different ways and legislative process tends to be prompt in times of divided governments.
Keywords
accelerated failure time model; interval censored data; legislative process;
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