The Developmental Sources of South Korean Neoliberalism

Hockmuth, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s40647-021-00328-4

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“…However, anti-labor violence has not disappeared and has in fact become more persistent amidst the COVID-19 pandemic along with the continuing government's inaction (KCTU, 2020). Indeed, many political and economic practices established during the authoritarian era have survived the social upheavals including the democratic transition, the financial crisis, and its ensuing neo-liberal transformation (Mobrand, 2019; Hockmuth, 2021). The embedded developmental approach has also survived to exercise non-democratic coercion in a palpable time of popular democracy.…”

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Delegating violence in democracies: embedded developmentalism and persistence of labor repression in South Korea

Porteux

Kim

2023

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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We address how democracy has influenced the ways in which the Korean state has managed the issue of labor-based collective action and suppression thereof. During the authoritarian period, the state, through specialized riot police, frequently, and violently, cracked down on protest movements and other forms of collective action. During democratization and post-democratic consolidation, private specialists in violence, operating with the consent of the state, began to replace public forces on the front lines, while working in concert out of the view of the public. Although such state/non-state collaboration in the market for oftentimes illegal violence has been addressed in scholarship elsewhere, we demonstrate through detailed evaluation that the extant explanations are largely incomplete, as they fail to capture the effects of changing relative levels of state-based autonomy from societal and corporatist influence.

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