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The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea

Author : Hae-Yung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000725773

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This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the ‘developmental state,’ in terms of both state–society and national–global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies. Presenting a thorough and comprehensive critical assessment of the extant approaches and theories of the Korean developmental state in particular, this book demonstrates that the existing literature, including Marxist critiques, only inadequately and partially challenge statism. It examines how statism reinforces and is reinforced by ‘Third World Developmentalism’, the idea that ‘development’ is in itself a positive goal and that a nationally autonomous mode of development should be promoted as a means of empowerment. In opposition, this book offers a critique of statism by constructing an alternative theoretical framework, extending Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism to state–society and national–global relations. Drawing on a new theoretical framework and significant Korean literature, The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea offers a novel historical interpretation and critique of the developmental state in the Korean context. As such, it will be useful to students and scholars of Asian studies, Development Studies and International Political Economy.

Capitalist Development in Korea

Author : Dae-oup Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134046447

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Capitalist Development in Korea by Dae-oup Chang Pdf

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "developmental state" is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour – a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development – this book argues that in fact the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over the interests of labour. Dae-oup Chang asserts that there has been a deliberate mystification concerning the reality of this process. This book presents a radical, Marxist critique of state development theory. It both explains the exploitative functions of the state, looking at the emergence of the particular form of capitalist state in the context of the formation and reproduction of capital relations in Korea; and also traces the origin and development of the process of mystification whereby the capitalist state has been characterised as the autonomous developmental state. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of labour relations in Korea both before and after the 1998 financial crisis, demonstrating continuing capital relations, state transition and class struggle.

The South Korean Development Experience

Author : E. Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137278173

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This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy. South Korea's experience of foreign aid gives a unique perspective on how to use foreign aid for economic development as well as how to build a strong partnership between developed and developing countries.

State and Society in Contemporary Korea

Author : Hagen Koo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501731761

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The Korean State and Social Policy

Author : Stein Ringen,Huck-ju Kwon,Ilcheong Yi,Taekyoon Kim,Jooha Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199875931

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The Korean State and Social Policy by Stein Ringen,Huck-ju Kwon,Ilcheong Yi,Taekyoon Kim,Jooha Lee Pdf

There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh authoritarianism, but, strangely, the authoritarian rulers made energetic use of social policy. The Korean State and Social Policy observes South Korean public policy from 1945 to 2000 through the prism of social policy to examine how the rulers operated and worked. After the military coup in 1961, the new leaders used social policy to buy themselves legitimacy. That enabled them to rule in two very different ways simultaneously. In their determination to hold on to power they were without mercy, but in the use of power in governance, their strategy was to co-opt and mobilize with a sophistication that is wholly exceptional among authoritarian rulers. It is governance and not power that explains the Korean miracle. Mobilization is a strategy with consequences. South Korea was not only led to economic development but also, inadvertently perhaps, built up as a society rich in public and civil institutions. When authoritarianism collapsed under the force of nationwide uprisings in 1987, the institutions of a reasonably pluralistic social and political order were there, alive and well, and democracy could take over without further serious drama. This book is about many things: development and modernization, dictatorship and democracy, state capacity and governance, social protection and welfare states, and Korean history. But finally it is about lifting social policy analysis out of the ghetto of self-sufficiency it is often confined to and into the center ground of hard political science.

Korean Political and Economic Development

Author : Jongryn Mo,Barry Weingast
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175376

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Korean Political and Economic Development by Jongryn Mo,Barry Weingast Pdf

"How do poor nations become rich, industrialized, and democratic? And what role does democracy play in this transition? To address these questions, Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast study South Korea’s remarkable transformation since 1960. The authors concentrate on three critical turning points: Park Chung Hee’s creation of the development state beginning in the early 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the genesis of and reaction to the 1997 economic crisis. At each turning point, Korea took a significant step toward creating an open access social order.The dynamics of this transition hinge on the inclusion of a wide array of citizens, rather than just a narrow elite, in economic and political activities and organizations. The political economy systems that followed each of the first two turning points lacked balance in the degree of political and economic openness and did not last. The Korean experience, therefore, suggests that a society lacking balance cannot sustain development. Korean Political and Economic Development offers a new view of how Korea was able to maintain a pro-development state with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic openness."

The Development of Modern South Korea

Author : Kyong Ju Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134355280

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The Development of Modern South Korea by Kyong Ju Kim Pdf

The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach this book highlights the most characteristic features of South Korean modernity in relation to its historical conditions, institution traditions and cultural values paying particular attention to Korean's pre-modern civilization.

Capitalist Development in Korea

Author : Dae-oup Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134046454

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Capitalist Development in Korea by Dae-oup Chang Pdf

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian developmental state is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour, this book argues that the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over labour, and there has been a deliberate mystification concerning the reality of this process.

The Political Economy of Developmental States in East Asia

Author : Tian He
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030593584

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The Political Economy of Developmental States in East Asia by Tian He Pdf

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. Based on an original theory, the author argues that these variations are influenced by two factors: industrial structure and democratic transition, both of which are shaped by the strategic calculations of the ruling elites to maintain power. The theory concerns two concurrent political processes during the state's development process, namely the emergence of economic interest groups with varying levels of policy constraints on the state; and the process of democratic transition driven by the rise of the middle class. The book will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of Asian politics, development studies, political economy and comparative politics. Tian He is a research fellow at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.

The Korean Developmental State

Author : Kyung Mi Kim
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811534675

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The Korean Developmental State by Kyung Mi Kim Pdf

This book analyzes, from a historical comparative perspective, the Korean economic development model, the extent to which it has changed from its classical model, and what constitutes its changes and continuity. Unlike studies claims the dissolution of Korean developmentalism, the book holds that the Korean state maintains its characteristics of state-led capitalism despite significant changes in policies and instruments rather than converge toward an AngloSaxon-style free market system. It emphasizes that the continuity of state-led capitalism is compatible with institutional change. Some institutionalists insist that the continuity of Korean developmentalism is based on path dependency. In contrast, this book argues that Korean capitalism could sustain its state developmentalism by changes in policies and instruments to improve national industrial competitiveness in the changed context of international competition. This book will be of interest to East Asian scholars, comparative economists, and those curious about the future of the Korean peninsula.

Rush to Development

Author : Martin Hart-Landsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822015560105

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Rush to Development by Martin Hart-Landsberg Pdf

Discusses the South Korea's highly centralized system of state planning showing that economic success had less to do with free market or free trade policies than with thorough state economic control. Analyzes the repressive and unbalanced nature of South Korea's growth process.

Developmental Transformation in South Korea

Author : Moon-Gi Suh
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822026360321

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Developmental Transformation in South Korea by Moon-Gi Suh Pdf

South Korea's path toward a higher quality of life has been a dynamic process, Suh shows, shaped by historical contingencies, some immutable logic of capitalist development, and a dialectical relationship between the state and Korean civil society. Debunking the illusion of democracy and myths of self-regulating capitalism in South Korea, Suh shows that a growth machine is not a panacea for the development of human beings and their quality of life. If instead the raison d'etre of quality of life depended upon a robust civil society operating under fair rules of the game by the state, the developmental road would be more promising. Suh seeks to test the hypothesis that the rising tide of economic growth will raise all boats in the Korean sea, remapping its structural pressure points which have been submerged at high tide. Given the high levels of economic growth generated by state intervention, any demand of distributive justice necessitates egailitarian reforms. As Suh shows, the present South Korean situation goes straight to the heart of theoretical questions about the enduring structures of capitalism, and its promise to improve average living standards and to link the redistribution of economic rewards to enhanced economic performance of the system as a whole. South Korea's path to quality of life has been a dynamic process, Suh shows, determined by historical contingencies, with some immutable logic of capitalist development, and a dialectical relationship between the state and Korean civil society. A study of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and policy makers concerned with political economy and social-economic development and East Asian Studies.

The Korean Developmental State

Author : Iain Pirie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134141579

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The Korean Developmental State by Iain Pirie Pdf

The Korean Developmental State is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of processes of state and economic restructuring in South Korea since the 1997 crisis. The book distinguishes itself from previous studies by consistently arguing that structural changes in the global political economy have played a crucial role in reshaping the Korean state’s own economic project. More precisely, Iain Pirie seeks to demonstrate how the Korean state increasingly adopted neo-liberal policies from the 1980s onwards as a rational response to the evolution of global economic structures; an evolution which has been driven by the continuous attempts of major global firms and leading capitalist states to overcome the chronic profitability problems that have dogged the core capitalist area since the late 1960s. The radical restructuring programme the Korean state initiated after the 1997 crisis must be understood as a logical conclusion to these earlier, more incremental, processes of reform it initiated almost two decades earlier. This book seeks to establish the neo-liberal character of the Korean state through a close analysis of key institutional and policy reforms, and serious engagement with more theoretical debates concerning the nature of the neo-liberal state itself. The Korean Developmental State offers a new perspective on the economic experience of Korea as a development model, one that emphasizes global trends and contradictions for Korea’s economic crisis and resulting transformation, and as such will be of significant interest to scholars of Korean studies and the Asian economy.

The Economic Development of South Korea

Author : Seung-hun Chun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351215725

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The Economic Development of South Korea by Seung-hun Chun Pdf

How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state within a generation? How could these have been achieved given the lingering geopolitical threats to its very survival as a state, as evidenced by the Korean War and the internecine aggressive posturing of its neighbor from the north? This book looks at strategies, institutional arrangement, role of entrepreneurs and workers in this odyssey, and on how those factors have worked together through effective leadership to transform South Korea’s economic fortunes.

Developmental Liberalism in South Korea

Author : Chang Kyung-Sup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030145767

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Developmental Liberalism in South Korea by Chang Kyung-Sup Pdf

This book characterizes South Korea’s pre-neoliberal regime of social governance as developmental liberalism and analyzes the turbulent processes and complex outcomes of its neoliberal degeneration since the mid-1990s. Instead of repeating the politically charged critical view on South Korea’s failure in socially inclusionary and sustainable development, the author closely examines the systemic interfaces of the economic, political, and social constituents of its developmental transformation. South Korea has turned and remained developmentally liberal, rather than liberally liberal (like the United States), in its economic and sociopolitical configuration of social security, labor protection, population, education, and so forth. Initially conceived in the late 1980s, ironically along its democratic restoration, and radically accelerated during the national financial crisis in the late 1990s, South Korea’s neoliberal transition has become incomparably volatile and destructive, due crucially to its various distortive effects on the country’s developmental liberal order.