The changing role of the Korean state : in the post developmental era / / edited by Hong Yung Lee and Sunil Kim

• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : Logos Verlag Berlin, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 147 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 951.9505
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; South Korea; democratization; socio-economic systems
• Soggetto geografico: Korea (South) Politics and government 1988-2002; Korea (South) Politics and government 2002-; Korea (South) Economic policy 1988-2002; Korea (South) Economic policy 2002-
• Persona (resp. second.): LeeHong Yung <1939->; KimSuni (Assistant professor of international studies)
• Note generali: PublicationDate: 20161020
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Crisis of politics in Korea : a comparative view on the status of democracy after democratization / Sunil Kim -- The politics of local development strategies in contemporary Korea and Japan / Jung Hwan Lee -- The developmental state in urban modernity : two state-led urban developments in South Korea / Youjeong Oh -- Amenity-oriented public investment and land market in Seoul / Chang Deok Kang -- The law and the state in economic reform / the case of the KFTC in South Korea / Joon Seok Hong -- A unified financial supervisory model in South Korea : origins and evolution / Myung-koo Kang -- Myopic conservatism and failed corporatism : why did South Korean labor movements contest the corporatist project? / Ji-Whan Yun -- Navigating the dragon at Hyundai Speed : the political narrative behind Beijing Hyundai's success in the Chinese market / Seung-Youn Oh -- Policies, civil society and social movements for immigrant rights in Japan and South Korea : convergence and divergence / Keiko Yamanaka.
• Sommario/riassunto: Long description: How and why has the Korean state changed its way of handling the society and its markets over the past two decades? The Changing Role of the Korean State finds that the explosion of contentious civil society after democratization coeval with the outbreak of the financial crisis following rapid economic growth, are closely associated with the decline of developmentalism. Despite these profound changes, however, the Korean state has not totally relinquished its control over the society and the market. Rather, although its methods have been altered it remains to be highly interventionalist and regulatory in nature. The state continues to use its influence to restructure the socio-economic system and rationally manage spatial arrangements. The book amply demonstrates the residual legacy of the developmental state in Korea, and it is unlikely that Korea will ever accept the western liberalist concept of a state which limits its function to that of a referee for the spontaneous operation of the civil society and the market. The contributors of this edited volume delineate the shifting role of the Korean state from the developmental state, which led economic development by guiding investment in strategic industries through various means, to a slightly subtler role as a regulator, supervising the operation of the market in the changing economic environment. Individual chapters presented here address this changing but nonetheless vital role that the state plays in managing the variety of modern socio-economic life in South Korea. Hong Yung Lee is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. Sunil Kim is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Kyung Hee University.
• Titolo autorizzato: The changing role of the Korean state
• ISBN: 3-8325-9323-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821825503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II