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The Korean State and Social Policy - How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Korean State and Social Policy - How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: International Policy Exchange Series
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There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South
Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a
sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly
authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable
democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh
authoritarianism, but, strangely, the authoritarian rulers made
energetic use of social policy. The Korean State and Social Policy
observes South Korean public policy from 1945 to 2000 through the
prism of social policy to examine how the rulers operated and
worked.
After the military coup in 1961, the new leaders used social policy
to buy themselves legitimacy. That enabled them to rule in two very
different ways simultaneously. In their determination to hold on to
power they were without mercy, but in the use of power in
governance, their strategy was to co-opt and mobilize with a
sophistication that is wholly exceptional among authoritarian
rulers. It is governance and not power that explains the Korean
miracle.
Mobilization is a strategy with consequences. South Korea was not
only led to economic development but also, inadvertently perhaps,
built up as a society rich in public and civil institutions. When
authoritarianism collapsed under the force of nationwide uprisings
in 1987, the institutions of a reasonably pluralistic social and
political order were there, alive and well, and democracy could
take over without further serious drama.
This book is about many things: development and modernization,
dictatorship and democracy, state capacity and governance, social
protection and welfare states, and Korean history. But finally it
is about lifting social policy analysis out of the ghetto of
self-sufficiency it is often confined to and into the center ground
of hard political science.
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