North Korea’s Shadow Economy: A Force for Authoritarian Resilience or Corrosion?

Dukalskis, Alexander

doi:10.1080/09668136.2016.1154137

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“…However, amid the Songun period in the 1990s the relationship between state and society was being reconfigured due in large part to economic changes (Greitens 2019;Dukalskis 2016). During the famine of the 1990s, state capacity was critically undermined (Haggard and Noland 2007).…”

Section: Everyday Nationalism and Marketizationmentioning

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Everyday Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule: A Case Study of North Korea

Dukalskis

Lee

2020

Nationalities Papers

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This article traces the evolution of “everyday nationalism” in North Korea and assesses its relationship to authoritarian resilience. It argues that coercion and the prospect of coercion play important roles in policing the contours of everyday nationalism. The state is able to infuse nationalism and authoritarian control into everyday life, but the “success” of its efforts has limits. This is due to social changes and the ways that material failures nurtured doubts about the legitimacy of the government among some citizens. It draws on data from North Korean state media, secondary historical literature, and 58 semi-structured interviews with North Koreans living in South Korea.

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Section: Everyday Nationalism and Marketizationmentioning

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Everyday Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule: A Case Study of North Korea

Dukalskis

Lee

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…Potentially oppositional spheres like shadow markets have emerged that can under some circumstances challenge totalitarian control (Dukalskis, 2016;Joo, 2014). There are still many unknowns in the case of North Korea and the thrust of recent research suggests that while the totalitarian model may have some analytic utility, the reality is more complex than some classic formulations suggest.…”

Section: Totalitarianism the Role Of Political Ideologies And The Imentioning

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What autocracies say (and what citizens hear): proposing four mechanisms of autocratic legitimation

Dukalskis

Gerschewski

2017

Contemporary Politics

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Autocratic governments make claims about why they are entitled to rule. Some autocracies are more talkative than others, but all regimes say something about why they deserve power. This article takes seriously these efforts by introducing and interrogating the concept of autocratic legitimation. After engaging in a definitional discussion, it traces the development of autocratic legitimation in modern political science by identifying major turning points, key concepts, and patterns of inquiry over time. Ultimately, this introductory article aims to not only argue that studying autocratic legitimation is important, but also to propose context, concepts, and distinctions for doing so productively. To this end, the article proposes four mechanisms of autocratic legitimation that can facilitate comparative analysis: indoctrination, passivity, performance, and democratic-procedural. Finally, the essay briefly introduces the five original articles that comprise the remainder of this special issue on autocratic legitimation. The article identifies avenues for further research and identifies how each article in the issue advances down productive pathways of inquiry.

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“…Black and grey markets mushroomed during that time, and they continue to form the backbone of today's economy. Scholars have interchangeably applied terms such as "second economy" (Lankov and Kim 2008), "shadow economy" (Joo 2010), "informal economy" (Kim and Song 2008) or "hidden economy" (Dukalskis 2016) to describe the circumstance that North Korea's post-Cold War economy relies to a large extent on unofficial transactions in the markets.…”

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From socialism to consumerism: The rise of capitalist values in North Korea

Schwekendiek¹,

Xu²

2020

IJAPS

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Ever since the famine of the 1990s, socialist North Korea has experienced a dramatic rise in black and grey markets as people seek a way out of the crisis. While previous studies have focused on the "old generation" of North Koreans engaging in the markets as producers and traders catering to the emerging subsistence economy, the "new generation" remains largely understudied. This "new generation" of North Koreans, who have spent their formative teenage years in post-famine North Korea, have experienced the markets as a commonplace, and hence had developed a sense for consumerism earlier than their parents' generation did. Drawing on oral history interviews with five female refugees raised in different regions in North Korea during their formative years, this study found that the "new generation" of North Koreans has become more capitalist than their counterparts in marketoriented South Korea or even those in the United States, North Korea's archenemy. Some implications of this shift in values are discussed at the end of this research.

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North Korea’s Shadow Economy: A Force for Authoritarian Resilience or Corrosion?

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Everyday Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule: A Case Study of North Korea

Everyday Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule: A Case Study of North Korea

What autocracies say (and what citizens hear): proposing four mechanisms of autocratic legitimation

From socialism to consumerism: The rise of capitalist values in North Korea

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