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Challenge and Change in East Asia: Constitutionalism on Trial in South Korea
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 16, Number 2, April 2005
- pp. 28-42
- 10.1353/jod.2005.0022
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Abstract:
During the early years of South Korea’s transition to democracy, expanding popular rule and deepening individual rights went hand-in-hand. But with Roh Moo Hyun’s narrow election to the presidency on 19 December 2002, the democratic transition that South Korea began in 1987 entered a profoundly new era. The presidency has exposed rifts between majority rule and constitutionalism that the country’s judiciary is struggling to bridge.