Can They Hold a Candle? The Correlates of Various Forms of Political Action in the Republic of Korea

• In Event: Political Participation, Contentious Politics, and Crises

Brief Overview

This paper probes what popular mobilization says about the strength of Korea’s democracy. We study the factors driving citizens to participate in protest and to compare candlelight protests to previous episodes of popular mobilization in Korea.

Authors

• Jose Aleman, Fordham University

• Howard Bartlett Sanborn, Virginia Military Institute