South Korea After Impeachment

Shin, Gi Wook; Moon, Rennie J.

doi:10.1353/jod.2017.0072

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“…Park’s negligence in acting swiftly and preemptively against MERS, among other incidents of perceived incompetence, formed views about what constitutes effective policies on both elite and public levels (Ku, Lee, and Woo 2017). Frustration among the public regarding her performance in governance and inaction eventually led to a series of candlelight vigils and explosive demands for Park to step down, from December 2016 until impeachment, March 2017, and the call for transparency and integrity institutions were made in this process ( Shin and Moon, 2017 ; Turner, Kwon and O’Donnell 2018). Moon, from Park’s opposing party, was then elected by popular support.…”

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Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea

Park

Chung

2021

World Development

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Highlights Political elites learn from the past to enhance sustainability of their leadership. Public and private sectors collaborated to efficiently combat COVID-19 in South Korea. Pandemic governance boosted public support for the incumbent government in elections. Democratic governments are pressured to perform well in crisis management. Large-scale RT-PCR testing is required for effective early response to COVID-19.

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Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea

Park

Chung

2021

World Development

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“…Consider the empirical example of South Korea under Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye. 73 It illustrates the inner working of the "autocratic legalism" mechanism that Scheppele 74 and Corrales 75 showed for Hungary and Venezuela, i.e. the gradual conversion of existing laws for illiberal purposes.…”

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Erosion or decay? Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression

Gerschewski

2020

Democratization

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Democratic regression has become a worrying phenomenon in the last years. Social science has provided a variety of explanations why democratic regimes have lost democratic regime quality. Against this backdrop, I take stock of the recent literature by putting forward two important analytical distinctions that we should make more explicit. First, I propose to classify our current explanations along the source where the cause for the malaise originated. By doing so, I introduce a distinction between erosion and decay type of arguments. While the former is a gradual process that is caused exogenouslylike wind or water hitting a stonethe latter is caused endogenouslylike the half-life in nuclear decay processes. Second, I draw a distinction between the endogenous or exogenous roots of the cause and the subsequent causal mechanism that connects the cause with the outcome. I outline the need for dissecting a causal mechanism into its constitutive components and highlight its underlying dimensions of temporality. Throughout the article, I use empirical case material as well as relevant secondary literature to illustrate these points.

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“…Thus, China arrests feminists and LGBTQ activists (Zheng ), while the supreme court of Taiwan has ruled in favor of same‐sex marriage (Cheng, Wu, and Adamczyk ; Guardian ). North Korea runs a police state that ensures conformity if not loyalty to the Kim family and its so‐called socialist regime, while the South Korean state created conditions that allowed citizens to initiate a movement that helped to depose corrupt president Park Geun‐Hye and see her sentenced to 24 years in jail (Guardian ; Shin and Moon ). These cases illustrate the existence of a top‐down mechanism in which different regimes channel once‐similar people into different political environments with evident consequences for their values and their actions.…”

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Tolerance of Homosexuality in 88 Countries: Education, Political Freedom, and Liberalism

Zhang

Brym

2019

Sociological Forum

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Researchers have repeatedly found a positive correlation between education and tolerance. However, they may be victims of an unrepresentative sample containing only rich Western liberal democracies, where political agendas have a liberalizing effect on curricula. In this paper, we specify the relationship between education and liberal attitudes by analyzing data on educational attainment and tolerance of homosexuality (one dimension of liberalism) drawn from a heterogeneous sample of 88 countries over the period 1981–2014. We argue that nonliberal political agendas in some countries undermine the supposed universality of the positive relationship between educational attainment and tolerance of homosexuality. In relatively free countries, education is indeed associated with greater tolerance. However, in relatively unfree countries, education has no effect on tolerance and in some cases encourages intolerance. Specifically, our analysis demonstrates that education is associated with tolerance of homosexuality only when regimes energetically promote liberal‐democratic values. The larger theoretical point is that the agendas of political regimes shape civic values partly via education systems. Especially in an era when democracy is at risk in many countries, it is important to recognize that education is not always a benign force.

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South Korea After Impeachment

Cited by 46 publications

References 4 publications

Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea

Learning from past pandemic governance: Early response and Public-Private Partnerships in testing of COVID-19 in South Korea

Erosion or decay? Conceptualizing causes and mechanisms of democratic regression

Tolerance of Homosexuality in 88 Countries: Education, Political Freedom, and Liberalism

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