Top–Down Democracy in South Korea Mobrand Sorensen Hardback 9780295745497

Top-Down Democracy in South KoreaAuthor(s): Erik Mobrand, Clark W. Sorensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295745497, 978-0295745497\nSynopsis\nWhile popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization.\n\nExploring South Koreas political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the p.