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The Republic of Korea is regarded as a shining example of democracy in East Asia. Despite this significant achievement, Korea's democracy in practice has been plagued by political gridlock, severe factional infighting, a lack of social capital and cooperation between civil society and political institutions, and leadership behavior that calls to mind its authoritarian past. Although the country is now a secure electoral democracy, its journey toward democratic consolidation is far from complete. In this volume, some of the best scholars on Korean politics explore and assess the complex interplay of the facilitating and inhibiting factors that have influenced and reshaped Korea's democratic consolidation process at all levels of state and society, as well as the prospects for consolidation in the coming years.

Democratization --- Civil society --- Social contract --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Korea (South) --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:328H55 --- K9500.80 --- Instellingen en beleid: Korea --- Korea: Politics -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656-221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book, first published in 2005, examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

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Assyria --- City-states --- Colonies --- Assyrie --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- -Cities and towns --- Federal government --- Municipal government --- Political science --- State, The --- -Assyria --- -Colonies --- Stadstaten. --- Koloniën. --- Politics and government. --- Colonies. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Assyria. --- Cities and towns --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- City-states - Assyria --- Assyria - Politics and government --- Assyria - Colonies

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