Democracy and Authority in Korea - The Cultural Dimension in Korean Politics (Hardcover, New)

In this study, which breaks with the tradition of basing political studies on analyses of institutions and political personalities, the author likens the Republic of Korea to a laboratory for the clash of political cultures. In the 1940s, the Americans embarked upon a democratization programme designed to create a western bulwark against the spread of communism in east Asia. The intervening years have seen the advent and demise of military rule, with South Korea now having a democratically-elected government. Although the US strategy thus seems successful, the political crises of 1995 in fact indicates that many obstacles remain here to the adoption of western-style democracy. Korea thus faces a difficult dilemma. It wants to democratize, to be accepted as part of the global community and therefore to adopt so-called universal values. But to date it has proved impossible to uproot traditional cultural values. Indeed, the author argues that it is impossible to do so and that membership of the global community for any country depends on acceptance that there are differences between all peoples; these cannot be levelled by wishes, decree of "political brainwashing". This study argues

General

Imprint:	RoutledgeCurzon
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	1998
Authors:	Geir Helgesen
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7007-0613-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General
LSN:	0-7007-0613-5
Barcode:	9780700706136

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