Top Down Democracy In South Korea

Author : Erik Mobrand
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745480

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Top-Down Democracy in South Korea by Erik Mobrand Pdf

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we should think about democratization not as the establishment of an entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and legitimizing norms.

Author : Youngmi Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319570662

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Korea’s Quest for Economic Democratization by Youngmi Kim Pdf

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more polarized. Demands for ‘economic democratization’ and a fairer redistribution of wealth occupy centre-stage of political campaigns, debates and discourse. The contributions offer perspectives on this wide-ranging socio-political change by examining the transformation of organized labour, civil society, the emergence of new cleavages in society, and the growing ethnic diversity of Korea’s population. Bringing together a team of scholars on Korea’s transition and democratization, the story the books tells is one of a society acutely divided by the neo-liberal policies that accompanied and followed the Asian financial crisis. Taken together, the contributions argue that tackling inequalities are challenges that Korean policy-makers can no longer postpone. The solution, however, cannot be imposed, once again, from the top down, but needs to arise from a broader conversation including all segments of Korean society. The book is intended for a readership interested in South Korean politics specifically, and global experiences in transition more generally.

Author : Sŭng-ju Han
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520024370

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The Failure of Democracy in South Korea by Sŭng-ju Han Pdf

Author : Larry Jay Diamond,Byung-Kook Kim,Pyŏng-guk Kim
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555878482

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Consolidating Democracy in South Korea by Larry Jay Diamond,Byung-Kook Kim,Pyŏng-guk Kim Pdf

A review of the dilemmas, tensions and contradictions arising from democratic consolidation in South Korea. It explores the turbulent features of Korean democracy in its first decade, assesses the progress that has been made, and identifies the key obstacles to effective democratic governance.

Author : Chae-Han Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000403435

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The New Dynamics of Democracy in South Korea by Chae-Han Kim Pdf

South Korea has been through important changes since its democratization in the late 1980s – most recently in 2016–2017 when the candlelight protests led to the ousting of Park Geun-hye and the election of Moon Jae-in. Taking a thematic approach to understanding South Korean democracy, each chapter in this textbook is written by a leading Korean expert on a different element of South Korean politics and government. Covering themes such as intergenerational differences, the instability of the party system, the role of the president, and the impact of the 2016 demonstrations, this is a vital and lively introduction to Korean politics. This systematic and nuanced approach helps you understand the past, present, and possible futures of South Korea’s democracy. It also helps in understanding South Korea’s system for the purposes of comparing it with other political systems. The New Dynamics of Democracy in South Korea is an invaluable textbook for students of Korean politics, which will also be a useful resource for scholars of comparative democracy.

Author : Hyug Baeg Im
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811537035

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Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present by Hyug Baeg Im Pdf

This book analyses democratization and democracy in South Korea since 1960. The book starts with an analysis of the distinctive characteristics of bureaucratic authoritarianism and how democratic transition had been possible after inconclusive and protracted “tug of war” between authoritarian regime and democratic opposition. It then goes on to explore what the opportunities and constraints to the new democracy are to be a consolidated democracy, how new democracy had changed the industrial relations in the post-transition period, how premodern political culture such as Confucian patrimonialism and familism had obstructed democratic consolidation, and the improvement of quality of democracy. The author compares empirically, from the perspective of a comparative political scientist, political regime superiority of democracy over authoritarianism with regard to economic development. He concludes that “democratic incompetence” theory has been proven wrong and, in South Korea, democracy has performed better than authoritarian regimes in terms of economic growth with equity, employment, distribution of income, trade balance, and inflation. This book will benefit political scientists, development economists, labor economists, religious sociologists, military sociologists, and historians focusing on East Asian history.

Author : Geir Helgesen
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 8787062496

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Democracy in South Korea by Geir Helgesen Pdf

Author : Charles K Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135986384

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Korean Society by Charles K Armstrong Pdf

While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role of ordinary people in this dramatic transformation. Taking the innovative theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of the state which have participated in the process of political and social democratization - the essays collected here examine Korea as one of the most dramatic cases in the world of ordinary citizens participating in the transformation of politics. Key topics discussed include: comparisons of Korean democratization to the experiences of post-authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world comparisons of the theory of civil society as developed in Western Europe and America the legacy of Korea's Confucian past for contemporary politics and society close examinations of various civil society movements South Korea and North Korea. Conceptually innovative, up-to-date and timely, the new edition of this book will be an invaluable resource for students of contemporary Korea, Asian politics and the global struggle for democracy.

Author : Gregg Brazinsky
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458723505

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Nation Building in South Korea by Gregg Brazinsky Pdf

Nation building has been a ubiquitous component of American foreign policy during the last century. The United States has attempted to create and sustain nation-states that advance its interests and embody its ideals in places ranging from the Philippines to Vietnam to Iraq. At no time did Washington engage in nation building more intensively than during the Cold War. The United States deemed capturing the loyalties of the vast regions of the globe emerging from colonialism as crucial to the struggle against Communism. To achieve this end it launched vast efforts to carve diverse parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America into reliable ''Free World'' allies. U.S. officials believed that, by providing the right kinds of resources, they could stimulate economic development and democratization in regions where neither of these phenomena had made significant inroads. This book examines one of the most extensive, costly, and arguably successful of these efforts - South Korea.... Throughout these chapters, I have sought to demonstrate the agency of South Koreans in determining the ultimate impact of the United States on their society. To the extent that the U.S. influence could be called hegemonic, American hegemony was a dialectical process that Koreans played a significant role in shaping. To emphasize this point, I have approached the process of nation building from both sides through the use of American and Korean sources. This analysis makes it clear that the evolution of the South Korea we know today did not entirely reflect the will of Americans or Koreans. It was achieved only through constant negotiation between the two. ----Preface.

Author : Hannes B. Mosler
Publisher : Research on Korea
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 3631800932

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South Korea's Democracy Challenge by Hannes B. Mosler Pdf

Thirty years have passed since in 1987 formal democratization was achieved in South Korea. Since then the country has undergone the two turnover test (Huntington), and it overcame economic, financial, and political crises. However, social inequality is higher than before democratization, social conflict has been exacerbating, and political polarization has been on the rise. South Korea's democracy has been going through a continuous stress test trying the polity's capacity to heal social conflict, integrate society, and mature politics as meeting these challenges is key to sustainable consolidation of democracy. The chapters of this edited volume, written by experts from South Korea and Germany in respective fields, examine the way in which South Korea has coped with these challenges in its political system, political economy, and political society since its transition to formal democracy, and provide a focused critical assessment of three decades after democratization.

Author : Carl J. Saxer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0415933935

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From Transition to Power Alternation by Carl J. Saxer Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Sŏng-i Yun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1032435801

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Two-track Democracy in South Korea by Sŏng-i Yun Pdf

"Yun examines three ironic phenomena of South Korean democracy that have developed after its democratic transition in 1987. While the evaluation of South Korea's political system by external institutions has steadily improved, people's trust in the nation's political system continues to decline. However, in the face of political distrust, unlike Western democracies, voter turnout has increased. Even though political participation and the political influence of citizens has been strengthened over time, the political influence of civic organizations that fostered the initial democratization movement in the 1980s has weakened, parallel to the decline in citizens' confidence in these organizations"--

Author : Samuel S. Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521823218

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Korea's Democratization by Samuel S. Kim Pdf

Although the Republic of Korea is regarded as a shining example of democracy in East Asia and a secure electoral democracy, its journey toward democratic consolidation is far from complete. Some of the best scholars on Korean politics explore and assess the complex interplay of the facilitating and inhibiting factors that have influenced and reshaped Korea's democratic consolidation process at all levels of state and society as well as the prospects for consolidation in the coming years.

Author : Sun-Chul Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 041558258X

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Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea by Sun-Chul Kim Pdf

This book examineshow social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after a democratic transition. It looks into how democratic change shapes the trajectory of social movements, and how social movements affect the pace and direction of democracy in turn, using South Korea as a case. South Korea provides an intellectual challenge to students of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and a strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise. The examination of how social movements and democratization interact in post-transition South Korea, therefore, aims at specifying the causal conditions and processes that contribute to our understanding of how variations occur in the trajectories of contentious politics in new democracies. Drawing on a wide range of data, including original protest event data, this book explains how South Korean social movements were able to attain strong political influence and settle as a powerful player in democratic South Korea by focusing on four causal factors: the configuration of major political actors during the transition period, the relational dynamics among social movement groups, the relationship between social movements and institutionalized political actors, and the impact of transnational forces in the post-transition period. The findings point to an uncharted trajectory of contentious democratization, in which a highly mobilized social movement sector has contributed to democratic deepening by filling in the voids created by the deficiencies in the formal political process.

Author : Ki-Sung Kwak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415557146

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Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea by Ki-Sung Kwak Pdf

This book focuses on the changing role of media in the more democratised political landscape of South Korea. It contributes to debates about the emerging role of the media in democratic transition, especially in relation to approaches that go beyond traditional Western constructs of media freedom and the relationship between the state and the media.