IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/gigawp/15.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas
[Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of New Differentiation Theoretical Approaches on the Case of South Korea]

Author

Listed:
  • Kern, Thomas

Abstract

Der Artikel geht der Frage nach, durch welchen sozialen Mechanismus Modernisierung und Demokratisierung miteinander verbunden sind. Ausgehend von neuen differenzierungstheoretischen Ansätzen wird die These vertreten, dass der maßgebliche Impuls zur Demokratisierung weniger von sozialen Klassenkonflikten als von „funktionalen Antagonismen“ in den Teilsystemen ausgeht: Je weiter die Modernisierung voranschreitet, desto mehr bilden sich in den Teilsystemen Kräfte, die auf mehr Autonomie gegenüber dem Staat drängen. Die Argumentation erfolgt dabei in fünf Schritten: Zunächst wird ein kurzer Überblick über den bisherigen Stand der Debatte zum Thema Modernisierung und Demokratisierung gegeben. Im zweiten Schritt werden die wichtigsten Erklärungsansätze aus der Demokratisierungsforschung vorgestellt und kritisch diskutiert. Im dritten Schritt wird das Verhältnis zwischen Modernisierung und Demokratisierung aus differenzierungstheoretischer Perspektive beleuchtet. Das Augenmerk richtet sich dabei hauptsächlich auf die Grundrechte als Garanten teilsystemischer Autonomie. Im vierten Schritt wird am Beispiel Südkoreas untersucht, wie strukturelle Spannungen und Konflikte in den Teilsystemen Politik, Wirtschaft, Bildung und Religion ihren Ausdruck in prodemokratischen Protesten fanden. Im fünften Schritt stehen die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem vorgestellten differenzierungstheoretischen Ansatz und den bisherigen – zumeist klassentheoretischen – Erklärungskonzepten im Mittelpunkt. Es wird deutlich, dass der Übergang zur Demokratie weder durch politische noch ökonomische Konfliktkonstellationen allein erklärt werden kann: Es kommt vielmehr darauf an, die Vielfältigkeit von funktionalen Antagonismen in den Blick zu nehmen.

Suggested Citation

  • Kern, Thomas, 2006. "Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas [Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of N," GIGA Working Papers 15, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:gigawp:15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/182558/1/giga-wp15.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Welzel, Christian & Inglehart, Ronald, 2001. "Human development and the explosion of democracy: Variations of regime change across 60 societies," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Institutions and Social Change FS III 01-202, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    2. Mayntz, Renate, 1997. "Soziale Dynamik und politische Steuerung: Theoretische und methodologische Überlegungen," Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, volume 29, number 29.
    3. repec:ucp:bkecon:9780226731445 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Burkhart, Ross E. & Lewis-Beck, Michael S., 1994. "Comparative Democracy: The Economic Development Thesis," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(4), pages 903-910, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sobel, Andrew C., 2002. "State institutions, risk, and lending in global capital markets," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 11(6), pages 725-752, December.
    2. Yong Glasure & Aie-Rie Lee & James Norris, 1999. "Level of economic development and political democracy revisited," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 5(4), pages 466-477, November.
    3. Pauline Grosjean & Claudia Senik, 2011. "Democracy, Market Liberalization, and Political Preferences," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 93(1), pages 365-381, February.
    4. Jac C. Heckelman & Stephen Knack, 2008. "Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 75(299), pages 524-548, August.
    5. Gustav Lidén, 2013. "What about theory? The consequences on a widened perspective of social theory," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 213-225, January.
    6. José Aixalá & Gema Fabro, 2009. "Economic freedom, civil liberties, political rights and growth: a causality analysis," Spanish Economic Review, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 11(3), pages 165-178, September.
    7. Joseph Wright, 2009. "How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(3), pages 552-571, July.
    8. Hai, Do Phu & Roig-Dobón, Salvador & Sánchez-García, José Luis, 2016. "Innovative governance from public policy unities," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(4), pages 1524-1528.
    9. Uk Heo & Sung Deuk Hahm, 2015. "Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 96(4), pages 1041-1058, December.
    10. Heckelman, Jac C. & Knack, Stephen & Rogers, F. Halsey, 2011. "Crossing the threshold : an analysis of IBRD graduation policy," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5531, The World Bank.
    11. Clague, Christopher & Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen & Olson, Mancur, 1996. "Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 243-276, June.
    12. Daron Acemoglu & Suresh Naidu & Pascual Restrepo & James A. Robinson, 2019. "Democracy Does Cause Growth," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 127(1), pages 47-100.
    13. Chauffour, Jean-Pierre, 2011. "On the relevance of freedom and entitlement in development : new empirical evidence (1975-2007)," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5660, The World Bank.
    14. Andrey Korotayev & Ilya Vaskin & Stanislav Bilyuga & Alina Khokhlova & Anastasia Baltach & Eugeny Ivanov & Kira Meshcherina, 2017. "Economic Development and Sociopolitical Destabilization: A Re-Analysis," HSE Working papers WP BRP 46/PS/2017, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    15. Michael Mousseau, 2012. "The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy," Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers 1207, Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum.
    16. Philippe Marchesin, 2004. "Démocratie et développement," Revue Tiers Monde, Programme National Persée, vol. 45(179), pages 487-513.
    17. repec:fsu:wpaper:wp2013_12_01 is not listed on IDEAS
    18. Goh, S. K. & Alias, M. H. & Olekalns, N., 2003. "New evidence on financial openness in Malaysia," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(2), pages 311-325, April.
    19. Michael W. Simon & Erik Gartzke, 1996. "Political System Similarity And The Choice of Allies," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 40(4), pages 617-635, December.
    20. Akasaka, Shintaro, 2016. "Macro determinants of Migration: Review and Analysis," MPRA Paper 106509, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2016.
    21. Michaela Trippl & Lukas Lengauer & Franz Tödtling, 2007. "Innovation und Wissensnetze im Wiener Informations- und Kommunikationtechnologiecluster," SRE-Disc sre-disc-2007_02, Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:gigawp:15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dueiide.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.