The Political Economy of Korea

Part I. Transition in Perspective

1. Perspectives, Arguments and the Structure
Jitendra Uttam

Part II. Locating Twin Transitions

2. Situating Korea’s Political Economy under Twin Transitions
Jitendra Uttam

Part III. First Transition: Agrarian Aristocracy and Its Discontents

3. Yangban-centered Agrarian Aristocracy and Its Social Discontents, 1700–1910
Jitendra Uttam

4. Continuation of Status Quo under Colonial Economic Drain, 1910–45
Jitendra Uttam

5. U.S. Intervention, War and the Assertion of the ‘Second State’, 1945–60
Jitendra Uttam

Part IV. Second Transition: Industrial Bourgeoisie and its Reconfiguration

6. Nurturing of National ‘Industrial Bourgeoisie’ under Authoritarian Polity, 1961–97
Jitendra Uttam

Part V. Transformation and Turnaround

7. Financial Crisis, Democratic Consolidation and Civil Society Intervention, 1997–2007
Jitendra Uttam

8. Korea’s Post-Industrial Consolidation under Global Financial Uncertainty, 2008–14
Jitendra Uttam

9. Korean Political Economy in Retrospect
Jitendra Uttam

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Economy, Economic Policy, Asian Politics, Development Economics, International Economics