Convergence or divergence?: The South Korean state after the Asian financial crisis

Kap-Young Jeong and Yeon-ho Lee

Global Economic Review, 2001, vol. 30, issue 3, 51-72

Abstract: This study suggests that the government's attempt to replace the developmental state by introducing neo-liberal axioms is slim. The state that is to emerge in consequence of the economic and financial reforms carried out by the Kim government is distinct from the neo-liberal regulatory state at the ideological level; moreover, the embedded characteristics of the developmental state hinder changes in the nature of the state. It is the paper's argument that the economic reform that has been implemented by the Kim Dae-Jung government since its establishment (in 1998) is merely a form of “self-help” to correct those mistakes committed by the developmental state. Despite the neo-liberal reform attempted by the Kim government, the social, political and historical conditions in which a liberal regulatory state may be born are pre-mature, and the embedded legacies of the developmental state are far from becoming a thing of the past.

Date: 2001
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