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Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

2024 Joan E. Cho ;Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, ©2024 ;ISBN: 0472076604 ;ISBN: 9780472076604 ;ISBN: 9780472056606 ;ISBN: 0472056603 ;ISBN: 0472904035 ;ISBN: 9780472904037 ;EISBN: 0472904035 ;EISBN: 9780472904037 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12738649 ;LCCallNum: DS922.35 .C47143 2024

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Title:
Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy
Author: Cho, Joan E
Subjects: 1960–1988 ; 1988–2002 ; 2002 ; 386 generation ; Asian Studies ; authoritarian legacy ; Authoritarianism ; Book Industry Communication ; Democracy ; democracy movement ; democratization ; dictatorship ; ecological conditions ; economic development ; Great Workers Struggle ; higher education ; industrial complex ; industrialization ; June Democratic Uprising ; Korea ; Korea (South) ; Korean students ; Korean workers ; labor movement ; mobilizing structures ; political polarization ; Political Science ; Political structure & processes ; Political structures: democracy ; Politics & government ; Politics and government ; regime durability ; regime stability ; social forces ; Society & social sciences ; South Korea ; student movement ; tertiary education ; vocational education
Description: South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilization takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democracy was not linear. Instead, while Korea’s national economy grew dramatically under the regimes of Park Chung Hee (1961–79) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980–88), the political system first became increasingly authoritarian. Because modernization was founded on industrial complexes and tertiary education, these structures initially helped bolster the authoritarian regimes. In the long run, however, these structures later facilitated the anti-regime protests by various social movement groups—most importantly, workers and students—that ultimately brought democracy to the country. By using original subnational protest event datasets, government publications, oral interviews, and publications from labor and student movement organizations, Joan E. Cho takes a long view of democratization that incorporates the decades before and after South Korea’s democratic transition. She demonstrates that Korea’s democratization resulted from a combination of factors from below and from above, and that authoritarian development itself was a hidden root cause of democratic development in South Korea. Seeds of Mobilization shows how socioeconomic development did not create a steady pressure toward democracy but acted as a “double-edged sword” that initially stabilized autocratic regimes before destabilizing them over time.
Related Titles: Emerging Democracies
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press
Creation Date: 2024
Format: 277
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 0472076604
ISBN: 9780472076604
ISBN: 9780472056606
ISBN: 0472056603
ISBN: 0472904035
ISBN: 9780472904037
EISBN: 0472904035
EISBN: 9780472904037
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12738649
LCCallNum: DS922.35 .C47143 2024
Source: OAPEN

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Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

2024 Joan E. Cho ;Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, ©2024 ;ISBN: 0472076604 ;ISBN: 9780472076604 ;ISBN: 9780472056606 ;ISBN: 0472056603 ;ISBN: 0472904035 ;ISBN: 9780472904037 ;EISBN: 0472904035 ;EISBN: 9780472904037 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12738649 ;LCCallNum: DS922.35 .C47143 2024

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