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Varieties of Labor Politics in Northeast Asian Democracies

Political Institutions and Union Activism in Korea and Taiwan

Bibliographic Data

ID8374019
AuthorsYoonkyung Lee (0000-0002-5756-6588, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume46
Issue5
Pages721-740
Publication date2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Survey (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-4687 • E-ISSN: 1533-838X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/as.2006.46.5.721
OpenAlexW2002503912
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited10

Against existing explanations based on economic structural and organizational differences, this paper contends that patterns of union activism in newly democratized polities are shaped by unions' interaction with political institutions and actors, particularly political parties. Unions' propensity for militant mobilization or accommodation is molded by the permissiveness of political institutions and electoral incentives for partisan alliances

Accommodation · Economics · Incentive · Market economy · Militant · Mobilization · Political activism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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Unique citing works12
Citations per year0.63
Citation span2007 - 2026 (20)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 12

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