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South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society

South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society

Shin, Gi-Wook
Chang, Paul Y.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415857651
ISBN13: 9780415857659
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 30 2013
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of civil society struggles after 1987. South Korea was ruled by successive authoritarian regimes from 1948 to 1987 when the government decided to re-establish direct presidential elections. The book contends that the transition to a democratic government was motivated, in part, by the pressure from social movement groups that fought the state to bring about such democracy. After the transition, however, the movement groups found themselves in a qualitatively different political context which in turn galvanized the evolution of the social movement sector.

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