A Legitimate Paradox: Neo-liberal Reform and the Return of the State in Korea
研究了金大中政府在金融危机后推行新自由主义改革，反而使国家在经济中重新获得合法性，权力从国家-财阀联盟转向更民粹的社会契约。
\n\t\t\t\t\tThis article examines the neo-liberal reforms that the Kim government implemented in post-crisis Korea. It argues that by embracing the reforms, the state, paradoxically, re-legitimised itself in the national political economy. The process of enacting the reforms completed the power shift from a collusive state-chaebol alliance towards a new alliance based on a more populist social contract - but one that nonetheless generally conformed to the tenets of neo-liberalism. Kim and his closest associates identified the malpractices of the chaebols as the main cause of the crisis, so reforming the chaebols would be the key to economic recovery. Combining populism and neo-liberalism, they drew on support from both domestic and international sources to rein in, rather than nurture, the chaebols. <br />\n\t\t\t\t