Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; 1 Introduction; 2 Historical background and the formation of the Korean party system; 3 Internal factors: Party politics and organization; 4 Regionalism and the reform of the electoral law; 5 Ideological cleavages and the debate over the National Security Law; 6 When the majority does not rule: The Roh Moo-hyun and the Lee Myung-bak administrations; 7 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Examines how the dynamics of inter-party and intra-party coalition-building have affected governability in post-authoritarian South Korea. The main contention being that a weak institutionalisation of both the ruling party and the party system accounts for political instability and the lack of strong governability in South Korea
