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Korean National Assembly Voteview

대한민국 국회 이념지도
DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates, 20th - 22nd Assembly (2016 - 2026)
936 Legislator-Terms
3 Assemblies
2.4M Roll Call Votes

Legislator Ideal Point Map

Each dot represents one legislator-term. Hover for details.

Party Distribution

Ideological spread by party across assemblies

Polarization Trend

Distance between liberal and conservative bloc means

Legislator Search

936 legislator-terms sorted by ideological score
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Methodology

DW-NOMINATE Estimation

Ideal points are estimated using the DW-NOMINATE (Dynamic Weighted NOMINAl Three-step Estimation) scaling procedure, the same method used for the U.S. Congress at voteview.com. The model recovers latent ideological positions from observed roll call voting patterns.

The first dimension typically captures the primary left-right (progressive-conservative) cleavage. Scores range from -1 to +1. In the Korean context, negative values correspond to the conservative bloc (국민의힘 and predecessor parties) while positive values correspond to the liberal-progressive bloc (더불어민주당 and allied parties). This polarity is arbitrary and reflects the alignment procedure described below.

Bridging Alignment

Because each assembly is estimated independently, raw NOMINATE scores are not directly comparable across terms. To address this, scores are aligned using legislators who served in multiple consecutive assemblies as bridging anchors. The aligned score shown in all visualizations reflects this cross-assembly normalization, making it meaningful to compare ideological positions across the 20th, 21st, and 22nd assemblies.

Data Sources

Roll call voting data was collected from the 열린국회정보 Open API, covering all plenary votes in the 20th (2016-2020), 21st (2020-2024), and 22nd (2024-present) National Assemblies. The dataset includes 2,425,113 individual vote records from 936 legislator-terms.