Estimating the costs of political populism: Traffic violation pardons in Korea

Since 1995, four presidents have granted six traffic violation pardons in Korea, and 24.6 million individuals have been the beneficiaries of these pardons. The objective of this paper is to explore how costly traffic violation pardons are by finding out the effects of traffic violation pardons on traffic accidents, and then estimating the economic costs caused by traffic violation pardons. Traffic violation pardons have the effect of raising traffic accidents by 4.3% and 3.6% per year and the economic costs of traffic accidents by 4.2% and 3.5% per year for two consecutive years after the pardons are granted.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2012.07.003
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856412001140
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Kwon, Youngsun
  • Han, Seung Hun
  • Nam, Changi
• Publication Date: 2012-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1449-1457
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Legal factors; Political factors; Traffic crashes; Traffic violations
• Geographic Terms: Korea
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Law; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01449618
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 19 2012 3:53PM