"Contentious Democracy" in South Korea: An Active Civil Society and Ineffectual Political Parties

Sunhyuk Kim
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South Korea's twenty-five-year-old democracy is a ”contentious” one, in which important public matters are often debated and decided through direct contention and confrontation between civil society and the state, without mediation through political parties as is usually the case in many Western ”representative” democracies. Popular protests and street demonstrations continue to be a preferred form of political expression in South Korean democracy. The other aspect of Korea's very active civil society is underinstitutionalized and ineffectual political parties. Whether underdeveloped political parties prove to be a temporary problem in an innovative experiment with creating a new type of ”contentious democracy,” or a fatal flaw that will undermine South Korean democracy, remains to be seen.
韩国“有争议的民主”:活跃的公民社会与无效的政党
韩国25年的民主是一个“有争议的”民主国家,重要的公共事务经常通过民间社会与国家之间的直接争论和对抗来辩论和决定,而不像许多西方“代议制”民主国家那样,通常通过政党进行调解。民众抗议和街头示威仍然是韩国民主政治表达的首选形式。韩国非常活跃的公民社会的另一个方面是缺乏制度化和无效的政党。不发达的政党究竟是创造新型“争议民主主义”的创新实验中的暂时问题,还是破坏韩国民主主义的致命缺陷,有待观察。
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