Asan Poll

2013JUL19
Asan Daily Poll

Source of Social Conflct : Ideology

  • Issue/Region :
    Culture and Society/Korean Peninsula
  • By.
    Kim Jiyoon / Research Division, Karl Friedhoff / Chicago Council on Global Affairs

ASAN POLL- The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

THE ASAN PUBLIC OPINION BRIEF

Public Opinion on Social Division
SOURCE OF SOCIAL CONFLICT : IDEOLOGY
July 16-18 On a scale of 0 to 10, how do you perceive the intensity of the division between liberals and conservatives? (0: Not Strong; 5: Normal; 10: Very strong, %)

Source of Social Conflct : Ideology Generation Perceptions of ideological division varied along generational, ideological, and party lines. As with class conflict, younger generations were more likely than older generations to perceive ideological conflict as “strong”. While in the case of class division those in their twenties and thirties were most likely to see the divide as strong, in ideological division those in their thirties and forties perceived the division to be more intense than those in their twenties. This difference in perception reflects the stronger generational—rather than class—cleavage (the thirties and forties vs. the fifties and sixties) particular to Korea. The 60 and over age group had a relatively low percentage (43.0%) of those who perceived ideological divide to be “strong” because a great percentage (30.4%) answered, “Not sure/No response”. As with class conflict, those 60 and older had lower awareness of ideological conflict. Ideology There was no significant difference in perception between self-described liberal and conservative respondents. Fewer self-described moderates (62.1%) saw ideological conflict as “strong” as opposed to liberals (71.7%) and conservatives (67.3%), perhaps because self-described liberals and conservatives had more direct experience or exposure to ideological conflicts. Party Aliation 59.2% of those who support the Saenuri party and 66.6% of supporters of the Democratic Party perceive ideological conflict to be “strong”.

METHODOLOGY

  • The sample size of each survey was 1,000 respondents over the age of 19.
  • The surveys were conducted by Research & Research, and the margin of error is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence level.
  • All surveys employed the Random Digit Dialing method for mobile and landline telephones.
3-day rolling average? The sample size of each survey was 1,000 respondents over the age of 19. The surveys were conducte d by Research & Research, and the margin of error is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence level. All surveys employed the Random Digit Dialing method for mobile and landline telephones.
This brief is a product of the Public Opinion Studies Center at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Contact Karl Friedhoff at klf@asaninst.org.

About Experts

Kim Jiyoon
Kim Jiyoon

Research Division

Dr. KIM Jiyoon is a senior fellow in the Public Opinion Studies Program at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral research fellow at Université de Montréal. Her research interests include elections and voting behavior, American politics, and political methodology. Her recent publications include “Political judgment, perceptions of facts, and partisan effects” (Electoral Studies, 2010), “Public spending, public deficits, and government coalition” (Political Studies, 2010), and “The Party System in Korea and Identity Politics” (in Larry Diamond and Shin Giwook Eds., New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan, Stanford University Press, 2014). She received her B.A. from Yonsei University, M.P.P. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Karl Friedhoff is a fellow in public opinion and Asia policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was previously a Korea Foundation-Mansfield Foundation US-Korea Nexus Scholar and a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s Trilateral Working Group. Friedhoff was previously based in Seoul where he was a program officer in the Public Opinion Studies Program at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others, and he has been a frequent guest on both TV and radio to discuss US foreign policy in Asia, South Korea’s politics, and international relations in East Asia. Friedhoff earned his BA in political science at Wittenberg University and an MA in international commerce at Seoul National University.