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South Korea in 1985: An Eventful Year Amidst Uncertainty
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This article is published in Asian Survey.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: East Asia.read more
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Explaining Social Policy Adoption in South Korea: the Cases of the Medical Insurance Law and the Minimum Wage Law
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two cases of social policy adoption in South Korea: the Medical Insurance Law and the Minimum Wage Law, and found that these policies were interpreted as anticipatory concessions to moderate members of Korean society by the state elites who aimed to stabilise their regimes by separating radicals from moderates.
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The Transnational Protection Regime and Democratic Breakthrough: A Comparative Study of Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the causal mechanisms underpinning the internationaldomestic political interface of democratic development in Taiwan and South Korea, and found that transnational networks of nonstate and substate actors were an indisputable source of external pressures on the authoritarian governments of Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore during the late 1970s and early 80s.
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Taiwan and South Korea: comparing East Asia's two "third-wave" democracies
TL;DR: The third-wave democracies of Taiwan and South Korea as discussed by the authors share several features with the United States, such as the continuity of political parties and the electoral machines of leading politicians, but they differ in several important respects.
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The 1985 Parliamentary Election in South Korea
TL;DR: For example, the election for the National Assembly held on February 12, 1985, the second under Chun's rule, produced results that stunned all observers and may well turn out to be a significant milestone in South Korea's tortuous path to democracy as discussed by the authors.
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South Korea in 1984: Seeking Peace and Prosperity
TL;DR: A large majority of South Koreans appeared to enjoy a relatively uneventful external environment and shared a sense of national pride in their Olympic achievements at Los Angeles as discussed by the authors, and almost anything seemed manageable for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in seeking its declared goals for 1984 prosperity at home and peace and accommodation abroad.
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North Korea in 1983: Transforming The Hermit Kingdom?
TL;DR: In 1983, North Korea continued its erstwhile policies on three main fronts: solidifying the preparatory work for political succession, pressing ahead with attaining the Second Seven Year Plan (1978-84) targets, and widening its diplomatic contacts with foreign countries, ostensibly as a way of checkmating South Korea's diplomatic activities as discussed by the authors.
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Civil-Military Relations in the Two Koreas
TL;DR: The authors investigates a wide set of variables and finds the critical importance of local adaptation of the models initially introduced by the patron states in North Korea's civil-military relations and South Korea's after the United States.