In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democrat

A thorough analysis of the institutions of government in South Korea, their transformation by the introduction of political pluralism, and the impact of that on

How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state wi

Pt. 1. The agrarian transformation -- pt. 2. Business and industrial transformations -- pt. 3. Transformations in the stat -- pt. 4. Transforming culture and id

Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twenti