ISBN:
9781137451231
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 269 S.
DDC:
330.95195
Keywords:
Entwicklung
;
Wirtschaftslage
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte
;
Südkorea
;
Social change History
;
Social movements History
;
Yangban History
;
Land reform History
;
Conglomerate corporations History
;
Capitalism History
;
Industrialization History
;
Korea Politics and government
;
Korea Social conditions
;
Korea Economic conditions
;
Korea
;
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's so-called 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement' and the more recent 'citizens movement'. The 'second state' provided incremental pressure to subvert the agrarian equilibrium of a previous era dominated by the Yangban aristocracy as well as the industrial equilibrium enforced by large business conglomerates. This book is an attempt to acknowledge the sacrifices made by the Korean people to enlarge the basis of Korean capitalism, bringing the wider society into its framework"--
Description / Table of Contents:
PART I. TRANSITION IN PERSPECTIVE1. Perspectives, Arguments and the Structure -- PART II. LOCATING TWIN TRANSITIONS -- 2. Situating Korean Political Economy under Twin Transitions -- PART III. FIRST TRANSITION : AGRARIAN ARISTOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 3. Yangban-Centered Agrarian Aristocracy and its Social Discontents, 1700-1910 -- 4. Continuation of Status quo under Colonial Economic Drain, 1910-1945 -- 5. Occupation, War, and Land Reform : Reassertion of the 'Second State', 1945-1960 -- PART IV. SECOND TRANSITION : INDUSTRIAL BOURGEOIS AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 6. Nurturing of National 'Industrial Bourgeois' under Authoritarian Polity, 1961-1997 -- PART V. TRANSFORMATION & TURNAROUND -- 7. Crisis, Democratic Consolidation and Civil Society Intervention, 1997-2007 -- 8. Rise of 'Developmental Liberalism' in the Era of Global Uncertainty, 2008-present -- 9. Korean Political Economy in Retrospect.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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