CHANG, K.-S., Developmental Liberalism in South Korea: Formation, Degeneration and Transnationalization, International Political Economy Series, Series Editor: Timothy M. Shaw, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 221pp.

Abstract

The preface of the book premieres Chang’s methodological choice to prioritize the linkages between the state, society, economy and culture in studying what he labels as “compressed modernity” in the South Korean context. He further explains that the complex realities of the South Korean experience of development have been largely politically framed and reduced to a certain number of dimensions, especially in the media.