The Sixth Republic under Roh Tae Woo: The Genesis of South Korean Democracy

• Authors: Grażyna Strnad

Abstracts

EN

The inauguration of Roh Tae Woo as president of the Sixth Republic of Korea in February 1988 can be considered as a turning point in South Korean political history. The five years of the Roh Tae Woo administration, 1988–1993, contained many of the first steps, albeit sometimes transitionally imperfect, toward democracy and an ultimate return to civilian rule of law, as well as greater political freedoms. According to Samuel P. Huntington, the Korean form of democratization was an example of transplacement, in which the government made concessions and opposition political groups accepted it to avoid mutual catastrophe. Furthermore, a case can be made for the mode of democratic transition in South Korea also being like Donald Share’s transition through transaction, Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmitter’s transition by pact, and Adam Przeworki’s democracy with guarantees.

Keywords

EN

political history; South Korean; democracy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 39
• Pages: 204-225

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Grażyna Strnad

• Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2010011

Biblioteka Nauki

2026814