TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratic performance and Park Chung-hee nostalgia in Korean democracy
AU - Kang, Woo Jin
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Why, a quarter century after democratization, are Korean citizens so nostalgic about the former authoritarian Park Chung-hee government? What are the implications of this support for Korea's democratic deepening? To answer these questions, I offer empirical analyses of selected data from the Korea Democracy Barometer 2010 survey that confirm the relevance of two dimensions of political support to authoritarian nostalgia in Korea: the life biography model and the economic performance model at the system level. The results suggest a double-sided phenomenon: on the one hand, nostalgia based on a retrospective collective memory; on the other, citizens' critical view of the performance deficits of post-Park democratic governments in dealing with inequality in Korean society. As the findings elucidate, in spite of the challenges they face, emergent democratic governments must perform more effectively if they are to win citizens' support. KEYWORDS: democratic performance, Park Chung-hee nostalgia, Korean democracy, inequality, democratic consolidation.
AB - Why, a quarter century after democratization, are Korean citizens so nostalgic about the former authoritarian Park Chung-hee government? What are the implications of this support for Korea's democratic deepening? To answer these questions, I offer empirical analyses of selected data from the Korea Democracy Barometer 2010 survey that confirm the relevance of two dimensions of political support to authoritarian nostalgia in Korea: the life biography model and the economic performance model at the system level. The results suggest a double-sided phenomenon: on the one hand, nostalgia based on a retrospective collective memory; on the other, citizens' critical view of the performance deficits of post-Park democratic governments in dealing with inequality in Korean society. As the findings elucidate, in spite of the challenges they face, emergent democratic governments must perform more effectively if they are to win citizens' support. KEYWORDS: democratic performance, Park Chung-hee nostalgia, Korean democracy, inequality, democratic consolidation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958150548&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/apr.2016.0002
DO - 10.1353/apr.2016.0002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958150548
SN - 0258-9184
VL - 40
SP - 51
EP - 78
JO - Asian Perspective
JF - Asian Perspective
IS - 1
ER -
