TY - JOUR
T1 - South Korea after impeachment
AU - Shin, Gi Wook
AU - Moon, Rennie J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - After months of street demonstrations involving tens of millions, South Korean President Park Geun Hye was impeached in March of 2017. Some observers wonder if Korea's young democracy has succumbed to populist forces, lapsing into deinstitutionalization. By analyzing these events in the larger context of Korea's political history, we contend that they were not an attack on democratic institutions, but rather a movement to redress their violation by Korea's political elite. We further argue that protest-led reform is a familiar pattern in Korean politics and that what took place indicates not a crisis of democracy, but a step forward.
AB - After months of street demonstrations involving tens of millions, South Korean President Park Geun Hye was impeached in March of 2017. Some observers wonder if Korea's young democracy has succumbed to populist forces, lapsing into deinstitutionalization. By analyzing these events in the larger context of Korea's political history, we contend that they were not an attack on democratic institutions, but rather a movement to redress their violation by Korea's political elite. We further argue that protest-led reform is a familiar pattern in Korean politics and that what took place indicates not a crisis of democracy, but a step forward.
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U2 - 10.1353/jod.2017.0072
DO - 10.1353/jod.2017.0072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031115073
VL - 28
SP - 117
EP - 131
JO - Journal of Democracy
JF - Journal of Democracy
SN - 1045-5736
IS - 4
ER -