A debate persists over how economic performance fuels democratization. It is fanned partly by the divergent experiences … of South Korea and Taiwan that suggest that economic growth leads to democratization. This paper provides a theoretical … model that shows that economic downturns lead to democratization, and evaluates the conclusion systematically with data from …

engenders. Korean society is becoming more polarized. Demands for "economic democratization" and a fairer redistribution of … and democratization, the story the books tells is one of a society acutely divided by the neo-liberal policies that …

. Taiwan’s fragmented industrialization generated one set of forces for democratization, while South Korea’s concentrated … democratization. Taiwan’s particular political economy helped make the democratic transition a thoroughgoing transformation of parties … industrialization, varying mechanisms that link growth to political change, and variations in how deep democratization cuts …

regime, though there was little disaggregated information regarding the “democratization shock.” We overcame the data problem … find that labor disputes increased from the year of democratization, 1987, which is consistent with the previous literature …