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This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic
use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the
Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup
(2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of
the country's rapid growth, and across varying stages of economic
and political development. It explains how mega-events helped to
secure South Korea's position on the international stage, boost
nationalism, propel economic growth in export-oriented national
companies, and build cities that accommodate - as well as represent
- South Korea's progress. It thereby highlights the broader
implications for today's global phenomenon of increasing reliance
on mega-events as a catalyst for development, while the criticism
that mega-events do more harm than good proliferates. The book is
ideal for academics, policymakers, and those with an interest in
mega-events and their role in the development of non-western
countries.
This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of
national traditions of local democracy across the developed world,
as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive
local institutions that integrate national and local governance
make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world,
early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of
elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state formation
imposed enduring tensions with local civic governance. In contrast,
inclusive, integrative local institutions in Northern Europe
enabled close links with central government around common local and
national agendas, producing better governance and fuller democracy
to the present day. Through comparative analysis, the authors
demonstrate how institutions for local governance and the
participation of civil society differ widely among developed
democracies, and how local democracy relates to national democracy.
The resulting insights fundamentally recast our understanding of
how to build and maintain more effective democracies.
This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic
use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the
Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup
(2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of
the country's rapid growth, and across varying stages of economic
and political development. It explains how mega-events helped to
secure South Korea's position on the international stage, boost
nationalism, propel economic growth in export-oriented national
companies, and build cities that accommodate - as well as represent
- South Korea's progress. It thereby highlights the broader
implications for today's global phenomenon of increasing reliance
on mega-events as a catalyst for development, while the criticism
that mega-events do more harm than good proliferates. The book is
ideal for academics, policymakers, and those with an interest in
mega-events and their role in the development of non-western
countries.
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