Top-Down Democracy in South Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Top-Down Democracy in South Korea write by Erik Mobrand. This book was released on 2019-04-19. Top-Down Democracy in South Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
South Korean Democracy
South Korean Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Korean Democracy write by Georgy Katsiaficas. This book was released on 2013-06-20. South Korean Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea. It analyzes the events of the Gwangju uprising, and traces the birth of South Korean democracy in Gwangju’s stubborn refusal to accept life without freedom.
Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present
Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present write by Hyug Baeg Im. This book was released on 2020-08-14. Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis
South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis write by Gi-Wook Shin. This book was released on 2022-12-27. South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regressionin the past decade, barely thirty years after its emergence in 1987. The society that had ordinary citizensleading “candlelight protests” demanding the impeachment of Park Geun-Hye in 2016–17 has becomepolarized amid an upsurge of populism, driven by persistent structural inequalities, globalization, and therise of the information society. The symptoms of democratic decline have been increasingly hard to miss: the demonization of politicalopponents, erosion of democratic norms, and the whittling away of the courts’ independence. Perhapsmost disturbing is that this all took place under a government dominated by former pro-democracyactivists. Will the election victory of opposition leader Yoon Suk-Yeol end this democratic erosion, or willthe rift between South Korea’s progressives and conservatives only deepen with the next administration? The contributors to this volume trace the sources of illiberalism in today’s Korea; examine how politicalpolarization is plaguing its party system; discuss how civil society and the courts have become politicized;look at the roles of inequality, education, and social media in the country’s democratic decline; andconsider how illiberalism has affected Korea’s foreign policy.
Consolidating Democracy in South Korea
Consolidating Democracy in South Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consolidating Democracy in South Korea write by Larry Jay Diamond. This book was released on 2000. Consolidating Democracy in South Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
