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The Quality of Democracy in Korea

Part of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Book Series

Editors: Mosler, Hannes B.; Lee, Eun-Jeung; Kim, Hak-Jae

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63919-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-63918-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 16, 2017

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction: The Quality of Democracy in Korea

Mosler, Hannes B.; Lee, Eun-Jeung; Kim, Hak-Jae

Pages: 1 –23

[This introduction offers a synopsis of the overall rationale behind the book and its individual chapters as well as an overarching argument about the quality of democracy in South Korea and more generally. It starts by outlining the course of events in Korea following the transition to formal...
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Korean Democracy in a Hyper-Centralized State

Choi, Jang-Jip

Pages: 27 –49

[This chapter critically reviews the characteristic features of South Korean democracy and attempts to discover which conditions or qualities are of the greatest importance for the robust development of democracy. Among others, the contrast between a “hyper-centralized state” and a “weak civil...
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Human-Centered Challenges to Korean Democracy

Howe, Brendan

Pages: 51 –72

[In this chapter, the author examines the quality of democracy from a governance perspective, investigating developments in Korea during the last three decades. Howe complements a democratic governance perspective with elements of a human security perspective that lets him explicitly focus on the...
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Democratic Quality and the Rule of Law in South Korea: The Role of Public Prosecution

Mosler, Hannes B.

Pages: 73 –120

[This chapter investigates the quality of public prosecution with regard to its role in maintaining and developing the rule of law in South Korea. The rule of law is a crucial dimension of democratic quality because it provides the basic codes of conduct for human interaction in a given society....
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The Progress of Human Rights and the Quality of Democracy in South Korea

Cho, Hyo-Je

Pages: 123 –145

[This chapter presents an overview of and an argument about the progress of human rights and the quality of democracy in South Korea in the last three decades. The author’s line of thinking consists of four propositions: First, since 1987 there has been reasonable progress of civil liberties...
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Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in South Korea: Public Opinion and Electoral Politics, 1997–2012

Shin, Jin-Wook

Pages: 147 –173

[Elections as a core institution of democracy may be a crucial channel for politicizing inequality issues by granting equal political rights to the majority. However, electoral politics may also serve to systematically exclude and distort the majority opinion of the public. This chapter focuses...
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A Dualized Democracy? The Labor Market, Welfare Policy, and Political Representation in Korea

Kim, Hak-Jae

Pages: 175 –205

[The chapter examines the nature and trends of economic inequality in Korea in relation to social welfare policy. To that end, it examines “dualization” trends in three dimensions: the labor market, social welfare, and political power. First, for the labor market, the chapter analyzes how the...
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Democracy Without Workers: The “Work Society” in Korea After Democratization

Kang, Su-Dol

Pages: 207 –236

[In this chapter, the author discusses the thesis of “democracy without labor” in relation to democratic quality in South Korea. The chapter deals with the following questions: Why there is no democracy for workers even after democratic transition in 1987? And what would be a possible way to...
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Plus ça Change? South Korea’s Democratization and the Politics of the Cold War

Gray, Kevin

Pages: 239 –260

[This chapter focuses on the relationship between the division of the Korean peninsula and domestic political contestation in South Korea after democratization. Even though mainstream analysis has tended to place the blame for the persistence of the division system squarely on the North’s...
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Dealing with Unification: The Politics of Fear

Lee, Eun-Jeung

Pages: 261 –275

[This chapter focuses on the contradictions and difficulties in the unification discourse that constitute a major obstacle for the quality of democracy in South Korea. It is built around the following two assumptions. First, the “politics of fear” is an important and characteristic element of...

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