Developmental Liberalism in South Korea: Formation, Degeneration, and Transnationalization

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This book characterizes South Korea’s pre-neoliberal regime of social governance as developmental liberalism and analyzes the turbulent processes and complex outcomes of its neoliberal degeneration since the mid-1990s. Instead of repeating the politically charged critical view on South Korea’s failure in socially inclusionary and sustainable development, the author closely examines the systemic interfaces of the economic, political, and social constituents of its developmental transformation. South Korea has turned and remained developmentally liberal, rather than liberally liberal (like the United States), in its economic and sociopolitical configuration of social security, labor protection, population, education, and so forth. Initially conceived in the late 1980s, ironically along its democratic restoration, and radically accelerated during the national financial crisis in the late 1990s, South Korea’s neoliberal transition has become incomparably volatile and destructive, due crucially to its various distortive effects on the country’s developmental liberal order. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Developmental Social Governance in Transition (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 3-14 Developmental Liberalism: The Developmental State and Social Policy (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 15-48 Front Matter ....Pages 49-49 Coping with the “IMF Crisis” in the Developmental Liberal Context (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 51-84 Developmental Citizenry Stranded: Jobless Economic Recovery (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 85-99 Financialization of Poverty: Consumer Credit Instead of Social Wage? (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 101-122 Demographic Meltdown: Familial Structural Adjustments to the Post-Developmental Impasse (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 123-134 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 From Developmental Liberalism to Neoliberalism (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 137-151 The Rise of Developmental Liberal Asia: South Korean Parameters of Asianized Industrial Capitalism (Chang Kyung-Sup)....Pages 153-168 Back Matter ....Pages 169-221