Top-Down Democracy in South Korea

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.

Info autore

Erik Mobrand is associate professor in the graduate school of international studies at Seoul National University. He received his PhD in politics from Princeton in 2006. Although this is his first book, it is not a revised dissertation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Erik Mobrand, Erik/ Sorensen Mobrand
• Con la collaborazione di: Clark W Sorensen (Editore), Clark W. Sorensen (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Washington Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780295745497
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74549-7
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Korean Studies of the Henry M.; Top-Down Democracy in South Korea; Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International StudiesKorean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International StudiesKorean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of Internation
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni