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1980's Political Transformation to Democracy in South Korea and Political Communication

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2008, 6(1), pp.247~277
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Ha, Sangbok 1

1목포대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to analyze 1980's political transformation to democracy in South Korea in terms of political communication. This research is fundamentally oriented to the critics of modernization theory and democratic transition theory, two main theories used to understand the South Korean democratization. The former can be criticized that, understanding the political transformation as by-product of that of socio-economy, it is not easy for it to analyze the political transformation in itself. And then, the latter may be criticized to reduce the political transformation to the elitist relations, even though it solves the theoretical limit of modernization theory, focusing on the political actors' relations. The process of political transformation includes not only the elitist relations, but also that of elite-mass. They are related to the process of support and mobilization, which is process of transmission of political messages by hold of communication space. And in this process is deeply engaged the mass-media, acting as an intermediary between elite and mass.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.