Why do consensus building efforts in a consolidating democracy often fail to
resolve regulatory disputes and even escalate them? Dong-Young Kim uses
the three, detailed, recent case studies of the efforts to balance economic
development and environmental concerns in rapidly industrialized and democratizing
Korea. He explores the main obstacles inherent in a consolidating
democracy to meeting necessary conditions for successful consensus building
process with a new research framework which incorporates the theory of
negotiation and consensus building into the theory of policy process. He
shows...