Unequal New Democracies in East Asia: Rising Inequality and Government Responses in South Korea and Taiwan

Eunju, Chi; Kwon, Hyeok Yong

doi:10.1525/as.2012.52.5.900

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“…Measuring public satisfaction with power today is clear by measuring how productivity has been done by the President and Vice President in the measure of separated indicators (Chi & Kwon, 2012).…”

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Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Rivai

2017

J. Bina Praja

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This study aims to capture public appraisal, especially student groups as young voters. The public appraisal that will be captured relates to the satisfaction of young voters on the one-year performance of Jokowi -Jusuf Kalla government. Using a survey method, this study will be conducted on student groups at the Pancasila and Citizenship Education Study Program at Ahmad Dahlan University. The data collection was done by spreading the questionnaire which then being assessed with tabulation and correlation analysis. This study is expected to be the baseline data in the first year of Jokowi -Jusuf Kalla's reign as the basis for future leadership prediction analysis for the next four years. Thus, by knowing the basic pattern in the first year, can be analyzed how the trend of satisfaction and political beliefs of society until the end of Joko Widodo office. This study showed that the increase of politics and public administration in Indonesia after Joko Widodo's government. To sum up, this study assumed that there are so many improvement and development in Indonesia today.

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Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Rivai

2017

J. Bina Praja

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“…Having said that, labour market insiders also typically had to endure deteriorating pay and working conditions in exchange for job security (Song 2014). These dramatic developments since the late 1990s have translated into rising poverty rates and income inequality, undermining Korea's previous relatively egalitarian social structure (Chi and Kwon 2012;Park 2010).…”

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The political economy of education and skills in South Korea: democratisation, liberalisation and education reform in comparative perspective

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Lee

2018

The Pacific Review

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The success story of Korean economic development is intimately linked with the so-called developmental state; and education policy, as part of centrally orchestrated industrial policy, played a critical role in the country's rapid industrialisation, which allowed for high employment rates, relatively modest social inequality and remarkable social mobility. However, the Korean success story has started to show 'cracks'-with labour market dualisation, rising inequality and 'over-education'. Whilst acknowledging the importance of the East Asian financial crisis as external shock for the Korean political economy, we suggest more fundamental problems in the socioeconomic and socio-political underpinnings of the developmental state and its education and skills formation system for understanding how Korea's economic and education miracle turned into 'education inflation', skills mismatch and social polarisation.

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“…Recently, the disparity of distributional wealth has grown sharply, and economic polarization has become greater in South Korea. In the past, South Korea was praised for its striking economic growth and relatively low levels of income inequality (Birdsall et al, 1995; Chi and Kwon, 2012). Korea’s relatively egalitarian income distribution benefited the majority of ordinary men and women in terms of class mobility.…”

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“…The ratio between the richest 20 percent and poorest 40 percent has increased most dramatically. “By 2010 the upper 20% earned approximately five times more than did the lower 20%” (Chi and Kwon, 2012: 901). Wealth inequality is more serious than income inequality.…”

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Weapons of the dissatisfied? Perceptions of socioeconomic inequality, redistributive preference, and political protest: Evidence from South Korea

2016

International Area Studies Review

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This paper explores how perceptions of socioeconomic inequality, attitudes about redistribution, and experiences of social upward mobility shape the level of participation in political protests. The dramatic widening of income inequality in Korean society since the 2007 financial breakdown and the new surge of political protests has continued to attract attention. However, scholars have not clearly examined how Korean views about socioeconomic inequality and redistribution affect political activism in protests. This study reflects on the hypotheses of the grievance theory and the resource theory, and investigates survey data to explore whether dissatisfaction with inequality and attitudes about redistribution have a systematic impact on the level of political activism in protests. Using data from the 2009 South Korea Social Survey Program, this study concludes that dissatisfaction with income disparity, dissatisfaction with educational inequality, and redistributive preferences, have a systematic impact in fostering active political engagement in protests.

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Unequal New Democracies in East Asia: Rising Inequality and Government Responses in South Korea and Taiwan

Cited by 16 publications

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Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

Indonesia After Joko Widodo: The Increase in Politics and Public Administration

The political economy of education and skills in South Korea: democratisation, liberalisation and education reform in comparative perspective

Weapons of the dissatisfied? Perceptions of socioeconomic inequality, redistributive preference, and political protest: Evidence from South Korea

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