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South Korea at the Crossroads: An Evolving Democracy or Authoritarianism Revisited?

Bret L. Billet
- 01 Mar 1990 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 3, pp 300-311
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This article is published in Asian Survey.The article was published on 1990-03-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Authoritarianism & Democracy.

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Authoritarianism in the Hypermasculinized State: Hybridity, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Korea

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest emphasizing substantive, not just procedural, democratization, exercising a maternalized discourse of dissent, and applying hybrid strategies of social mobilization across states, societies, cultures, and movements.
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The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative-historical analysis of three Asian developmental states where ruling parties have democratized from varying positions of considerable strength: Taiwan, South Korea, and Indonesia.
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The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on social welfare issues and politics during critical junctures in Korea's history: industrialization in the 1960s, the democratization and labor movement in the mid-1980s, globalization and the financial crisis in the 1990s, and the wind of free welfare in the 2010s.
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Civil society, democratization and development (II): Two country cases

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the definition of civil society and explore the hypotheses about its political role in the process of democratisation developed in Part I, in the context of two country case studies, South Korea and Zambia.
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A Strategic Model of Economic Performance and Democratization in South Korea and Taiwan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theoretical model showing that economic downturns lead to democratization and evaluate the conclusion systematically with data from South Korea and Taiwan, and show that democratization is the outcome of strategic responses pursued under weak economic conditions.
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