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a side (Koger 2003: 232-33). The last is party affiliation. Party is an institutionalized human network. Loose networks and groups based on personal ties exist in the legislature (Shin, H. 2004; Jeong, W. and Ahn, Y. 2004; Porter et al. 2005) and further there are co-sponsoring networks cross the partisan line (Kim, L. 2009; Yoo S. 2009). Partisan identification has relatively lost its influence in predicting the voting behavior in the Korean National Assembly (Lee, H. 2005). Yet, partisan identification is the most important factor in the co-sponsorship. Whether a legislator is affiliated with the same political party the sponsor of a draft bill belongs to is still most powerful in predicting whether the potential co-sponsor to support the bill or not (Chung, W. and Kwon, H. 2009; Fowler 2006: 483-84; Krehbiel 1995: 910). The above three factors in the co-sponsorship leads to the following three hypotheses. Hypothesis 4. Those who have minefields in their districts are more likely to co-sponsor the anti-landmine bills. Hypothesis 5. Progressive assemblymen are more likely to co-sponsor the anti-landmine bills. Hypothesis 6. Those who are affiliated with the same political party the leading sponsors of the anti-landmine bills belong to are more likely to cosponsor the anti-landmine bills.
IV. Research Design, Findings, and Discussions Though previous studies identify several factors in explaining the cosponsorship at the Korean National Assembly, none of them assesses the relative explanatory power of each factor. This section presents a research design to assess how much each factor explains the co-sponsoring behavior at the Korean National Assembly.
1. Two Anti-Personnel Landmine Bills The Ottawa Treaty gives several duties to each member state. First, each