The State, Society and Big Business in South Korea

ISBN-13: 9780415145831 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str.

Lee Yeon-Ho; Yeon-Ho Lee

Opis

This text examines how in South Korea, the state can execute national policies that are opposed to the interests of social constituents, despite the expansion of social power. The means of state control are examined and the relationship between government and big business groups provide an example of this. The author demonstrates how confucian values, the role of the family and a firm hierarchical tradition have prevented South Korea from developing a modern state on the western model.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 State autonomy and big business; Chapter 2 The origin and growth of the chaebôl, 1948–79; Chapter 3 Criticisms of the chaebôl; Chapter 4 Regulating the chaebôl, 1980–93; Chapter 5 The sources of state autonomy; Chapter 6 Liberal-pluralism, neo-Marxism, corporatism and state—chaebôl relations; Chapter 7 Alternative modernity and strong state autonomy vis-à-vis the chaebôl; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

O autorze

Yeon-ho Lee is an Economic and Social Research Council Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.