유권자의 라이프스타일에 따른 후보자 선택 행동에 관한 연구

Abstract

One thing we all have in common in today's world is that we have the right to vote. Regardless of our occupation, income, education, gender and religion, we, as voters, have the right to select candidates through election. Election is a behavior of determining a specific person as a representative among multiple candidates through a certain procedure. The purposes of studying social phenomena vary greatly. One of them is to understand and explain a wide range of social phenomena through a new theory and knowledge stemming from the results of a study, and to eventually control and monitor the phenomena. Thus, it is greatly meaningful that, through the study on voting behavior, we build a theory of voters' candidate selection and propose policy-making directions by analyzing what factors contributed to the voters' candidate selection, how much those factors influenced election results, and what factors influenced voters the most. Accordingly, we can say that it is of great significance that we look deeply into the behavior of selecting candidates in relation to the lifestyle of voters in the Jeju area through the course of this research, despite the fact that Jeju has the inherent limitations of being geographically remote from the mainland.