Two Track Democracy In South Korea

Author : Seongyi Yun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000837711

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Two-Track Democracy in South Korea by Seongyi Yun Pdf

This book 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 in Western democracies, voter turnout has increased. Even though political participation and the political influence of citizens have 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. Why is South Korean democracy witnessing ironic phenomena that cannot be succinctly explained by existing theories of political development or democracy? This book seeks these answers within the framework of a twotrack democracy, that is, the interplay between institutional and contentious politics. A model of democracy that combines contentious politics with formal politics can shed light on this phenomenon. Yun proposed that the traditional hierarchical and elite-centered political system is no longer sustainable. In order to resolve the democratic deficiency perceived by citizens, it is necessary to consider a new model of democracy beyond the improvement of representative democracy. Moreover, the new model of democracy should be based on a fusion of institutional politics and contentious politics. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the politics of South Korea democratization and democracy more generally.

Author : Sŏng-i Yun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Hannes B. Mosler,Eun-Jeung Lee,Hak-Jae Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319639192

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The Quality of Democracy in Korea by Hannes B. Mosler,Eun-Jeung Lee,Hak-Jae Kim Pdf

This edited volume assesses the quality of democracy in the Republic of Korea three decades after its formal democratization in 1987. It has been argued that Korea’s two subsequent power turnovers prove that its democracy has been successfully consolidated, despite its tremendous progress; however, recent developments show signs of deterioration and retreat. Therefore, drawing on the recent quality of democracy literature this volume sets out to answer the question: Where does Korea’s democratic quality stand today? The three chapters in first section of the book focus on aspects related to the presidency, political parties, and organized labor, also including the perspective of governance and human security as well as on the rule of law regarding the role and function of the prosecution. This is followed by a set of four chapters in section two that address the dimensions of democratic quality such as participation, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The final, third section includes contributions on related inter-Korean policy issues. This book is an invaluable resource for political and social scientist working on democratic quality, and at the same for scholars in Asian or Korean Studies at faculty level as well as on graduate student level.

Author : Hannes B. Mosler
Publisher : Research on Korea
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Gi-Wook Shin,Paul Y Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136708053

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South Korean Social Movements by Gi-Wook Shin,Paul Y Chang Pdf

This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of civil society struggles after 1987. South Korea was ruled by successive authoritarian regimes from 1948 to 1987 when the government decided to re-establish direct presidential elections. The book contends that the transition to a democratic government was motivated, in part, by the pressure from social movement groups that fought the state to bring about such democracy. After the transition, however, the movement groups found themselves in a qualitatively different political context which in turn galvanized the evolution of the social movement sector. Including an impressive array of case studies ranging from the women's movement, to environmental NGOs, and from cultural production to law, the contributors to this book enrich our understanding of the democratization process in Korea, and show that the social movement sector remains an important player in Korean politics today. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean studies, Asian politics, political history and social movements.

Author : Hyung-A Kim,Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801797

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Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 by Hyung-A Kim,Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian regimes. These historic changes began under President Park Chung Hee, who seized power through a military coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea until his assassination on October 26, 1979. While the state's dominant role in South Korea's rapid industrialization is widely accepted, the degree to which Park was personally responsible for changing the national character remains hotly debated. This book examines the rationale and ideals behind Park's philosophy of national development in order to evaluate the degree to which the national character and moral values were reconstructed.

Author : Jongryn Mo,Barry R. Weingast
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : 067472674X

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

"Mo and Weingast study three critical turning points in South Korea's remarkable transformation and offer a new view of how Korea was able to maintain pro-development policies with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic openness"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Shin-wha Lee,Jagannath P. Panda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000928631

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The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula by Shin-wha Lee,Jagannath P. Panda Pdf

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world’s more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific. This book provides answers to broader questions that are relevant to the global emerging peace architecture. The book is divided into three parts: global, Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The first part analyses the competing world views of the U.S, China, Japan, and Korea and the evolvement of UN debates on global and regional security, with special emphasis on the Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The second part concerns major bilateral or multilateral security issues facing Indo-Pacific countries and their UN debates in this regard. In particular, with new developments in the Indo-Pacific, such as the Quad process involving the Australia-India-Japan-United States and an anticipation expansion of the Group of Seven (G-7), chapters analyse how these mechanisms expand their focus within the scope of Indo-Pacific power politics. Part three focuses on the UN centered debates on two Koreas and their strategic fallouts at regional and global levels. Examining the security order evolving around the politics of the Indo-Pacific regions and Korean Peninsula and analysing the relevance of the UN and its mechanisms, this book will be of interest to researchers studying International Relations, Security Studies, Asian Studies, in particular Korean Studies and the Indo-Pacific.

Author : Hyunjin Seo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197538883

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Networked Collective Actions by Hyunjin Seo Pdf

The summer of 2016 saw one of the most significant citizen protests in the history of democratic South Korea, eventually culminating in the impeachment and conviction of then President Park Geun-hye for corruption. Concerns about the president's behavior were raised in a polarized media environment with low public trust, where extreme right-wing media outlets amplified conspiracy theories and false claims in opposition to impeachment. How then was it possible for pro-impeachment protests seeking major social change to succeed? And why did pro-Park protesters and government efforts to defend Park ultimately fail? Based on interviews with key players in the impeachment movement and original analyses of news reports and social media posts, Networked Collective Actions untangles the intricate interactions among different actors that were supported and sometimes constrained by the technological, socio-political, and legal environments in which they occurred. Moreover, Hyunjin Seo develops a theoretical framework for understanding collective actions in dynamic information ecosysems and analyzes how information consumption patterns might prompt someone to either immediately reject a certain piece of information or to reconsider and adopt that same information. Seo provides a nuanced examination of the role of journalism in a democracy where non-traditional intermediaries (e.g., social media influencers and bots) have emerged as important producers and filters of information, and in light of declining trust in news media.

Author : Scott A. Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231546188

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South Korea at the Crossroads by Scott A. Snyder Pdf

Against the backdrop of China’s mounting influence and North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder examines the trajectory of fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and offers predictions—and a prescription—for the future. Pairing a historical perspective with a shrewd understanding of today’s political landscape, Snyder contends that South Korea’s best strategy remains investing in a robust alliance with the United States. Snyder begins with South Korea’s effort in the 1960s to offset the risk of abandonment by the United States during the Vietnam War and the subsequent crisis in the alliance during the 1970s. A series of shifts in South Korean foreign relations followed: the “Nordpolitik” engagement with the Soviet Union and China at the end of the Cold War; Kim Dae Jung’s “Sunshine Policy,” designed to bring North Korea into the international community; “trustpolitik,” which sought to foster diplomacy with North Korea and Japan; and changes in South Korea’s relationship with the United States. Despite its rise as a leader in international financial, development, and climate-change forums, South Korea will likely still require the commitment of the United States to guarantee its security. Although China is a tempting option, Snyder argues that only the United States is both credible and capable in this role. South Korea remains vulnerable relative to other regional powers in northeast Asia despite its rising profile as a middle power, and it must balance the contradiction of desirable autonomy and necessary alliance.

Author : Uk Heo,Terence Roehrig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107012509

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South Korea's Rise by Uk Heo,Terence Roehrig Pdf

This book explores South Korea's phenomenal economic rise and the impact that this has had on the country's foreign policy.

Author : JeongHun Han,Professor of Korean Politics Jeonghun Han,Ramon Pacheco Pardo,Associate Professor of Political Science Youngho Cho,Youngho Cho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192894045

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The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics by JeongHun Han,Professor of Korean Politics Jeonghun Han,Ramon Pacheco Pardo,Associate Professor of Political Science Youngho Cho,Youngho Cho Pdf

South Korea is best-known for its economic development, democratic transition and consolidation, vibrant civil society, and emergence as a cultural powerhouse. The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics presents and analyses contemporary South Korean politics, bringing together domestic political, economic, social cultural, and demographic developments and putting them in the context of trends in fellow developed countries. The Handbook is divided into seven sections: introduction; core concepts; institutions, parties, elections, and voters; civil society; culture and media; public policy and policy-making; and the international arena. The overarching premise of the Handbook is that we have to move away from traditional understandings of South Korean politics that considered them to be static, focusing instead on how and why contemporary South Korea is a vibrant and dynamic democracy in which multiple groups and ideas are represented.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000023494343

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Evaluating U.S. Foreign Policy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : Hoover Inst Press Publication
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822028336170

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Institutional Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea by Larry Jay Diamond Pdf

A look at the factors that define the Korean model of democratization and the reforms that are still needed to consolidate democracy in Korea.

Author : John Gillespie,Albert H.Y. Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136978425

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Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam by John Gillespie,Albert H.Y. Chen Pdf

Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for development. This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and raising important questions such as: Is there a distinctive Chinese model, and/or a more general East Asian Model? If so, can it be flexibly applied to social and economic conditions in different countries? If it cannot be applied to a culturally and politically similar country like Vietnam, is the model transportable elsewhere in the world? Combining ‘micro’ or interpretive methods with ‘macro’ or structural traditions, the book provides a nuanced account of legal reforms in China and Vietnam, highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.