JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOUTH KOREA'S ELITE SETTLEMENT AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION
MICHAEL G. BURTON and JAI P. RYU
Journal of Political & Military Sociology
Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 1997), pp. 1-24 (24 pages)
Published By: University Press of Florida
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45294106
Abstract
Scholars overwhelmingly agree that Korean democracy remains unconsolidatedy and most are pessimistic about the prospects for consolidation. However, these scholars have not considered how Korea's democratic transition path may have affected the consolidation process, and their criteria of consolidation are ambiguous.
Applying an elite-centered theoretical framework, we contend that
the democratic transition in 1987 was accompanied by an elite settlement which involved a fundamental transformation of elite relations from disunity to consensual unity, and that elite consensual unity has subsequently been solidified in a number of ways. Applying the Linz and Stepan (1996) criteria of democratic consolidation, we conclude that Korean democracy is now consolidated.
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