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High capacity, low resilience: the 'developmental' state and military-bureaucratic authoritarianism in South Korea
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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:33 authored by Olli HellmannThis article argues that high levels of state capacity are not a sufficient condition for consolidating autocratic rule. Rather, whether non-democratic rulers can harness the infrastructural power of the state to implement strategies of regime stabilization depends on three crucial factors: the state’s social embedding, the international context, and the extent of elite cohesion. The paper develops this argument through a case study of the military-bureaucratic regime in South Korea (1961-1987), which – despite a high-capacity "developmental" state at its disposal – failed to maintain high levels of resilience.
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International Political Science ReviewISSN
0192-5121Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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1Volume
39Page range
67-82Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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2017-01-04First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-01-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-01-04Usage metrics
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