국회 절차적 규칙 개정의 유인: 제19대 국회 국회법 개정안 본회의 표결 분석

This study aims to find out what encourages legislators to vote in favor of the revision of the procedural rules in the National Assembly and under what circumstances the chances of the bills passing are high by analyzing the roll call votes in the 19th National Assembly. The empirical findings are as follows: First, regardless of the contents of the bills, legislators who were closer to the majority party tended to oppose the amendments. Out of the three hypotheses about individual legislators’ incentives (partisanship, ideology, and experiences), only the partisanship hypothesis was consistently supported. After controling for legislators’ partisanships, their ideology was also associated with yea votes, but the direction of the association varied by content of the amendment. On the other hand, legislators’experiences proxied by their seniority and type of seats (i.e., proportional representation) did not show a significant association with roll call votes in the plenary sessions. Second, it was difficult to find a case in which the level of bipartisan cooperation at the bill sponsorship stage was high out of the bills repealed but reflected in the chairman’s bills. Chairman’s bills reflecting non-partisan amendments initiated by individual legislators were passed with high approval rates. Third, when the distance in the policy space between the ruling and opposition party leaders was close, progress was made in the bipartisan consultation related to the amendment of the National Assembly Law. We conclude that legislators’ partisanship is still the most significant incentive to revise the rules of procedure in the Korean National Assembly even after the National Assembly Advancement Act came into effect.