While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines
for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those
movements are only part of the story of the construction and
practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik
Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and
management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country
left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and
fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary
practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South
Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of
dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century,
Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the
postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular
movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we
should think about democratization not as the establishment of an
entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules
with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and
legitimizing norms.
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