Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation?: Using instrumental variable

Wook Joon Sung; Changki Jang

doi:10.24251/hicss.2020.222

Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation? Using instrumental variable

Wook Joon Sung
, Changki Jang

Dept. of AI and Public Policy

Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SNUST)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether online political participation can predict the strengthening of offline political participation by using privacy concerns as an instrumental variable. Accordingly, the 2SLS analysis was applied using the Korea Media Panel Survey data of 2016 conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). As a result, age and ideological inclination were found to be more important factors in offline political participation than by socioeconomic status. In addition, the use of an instrumental variable to control the direction of causality indicates that online political participation reinforces offline political participation. As a result of habituated daily online activities, it is suggested that a new participatory group, especially low socioeconomic strata, may be mobilized due to the influence of online political participation. This research eliminating the possibility of two-way causality between online and offline political participation is meaningful in finding that online participation activities can reinforce offline political participation and that it is possible to mobilize the groups that were alienated from offline political participation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
Editors	Tung X. Bui
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	1793-1802
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9780998133133
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2020.222
State	Published - 2020
Event	53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020 - Maui, United States Duration: 7 Jan 2020 → 10 Jan 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume	2020-January
ISSN (Print)	1530-1605

Conference

Conference	53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Maui
Period	7/01/20 → 10/01/20

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Sung, W. J., & Jang, C. (2020). Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation? Using instrumental variable. In T. X. Bui (Ed.), Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020 (pp. 1793-1802). (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2020-January). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2020.222

Sung, Wook Joon ; Jang, Changki. / Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation? Using instrumental variable. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020. editor / Tung X. Bui. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. pp. 1793-1802 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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Sung, WJ & Jang, C 2020, Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation? Using instrumental variable. in TX Bui (ed.), Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 2020-January, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1793-1802, 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020, Maui, United States, 7/01/20. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2020.222

Does online political participation reinforce offline political participation? Using instrumental variable. / Sung, Wook Joon; Jang, Changki.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020. ed. / Tung X. Bui. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. p. 1793-1802 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2020-January).

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