TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes towards judicial review in Japan and South Korea
T2 - indications for the existence of a liberal-democratic civic culture
AU - Ben-Rafael Galanti, Sigal
AU - Levkowitz, Alon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
PY - 2015/5/4
Y1 - 2015/5/4
N2 - Though very close geographically and culturally, postwar Japan and the Republic of Korea – both non-classical Western democracies – each experienced a very different democratization process and adopted a different kind of democratic regime. This is strongly expressed in the form of their judicial review mechanisms that are aimed in different ways at assisting citizens in encouraging the courts to review laws and policies. Given this backdrop, through the analysis of the attitudes of the Japanese and Korea's citizens to their judicial review mechanisms we search for civic attitudes in these societies. By doing so, we try to contribute to the great debate regarding the capability of non-Western societies that did not develop from a well-rooted liberal culture to adopt and internalize liberal-democratic values.
AB - Though very close geographically and culturally, postwar Japan and the Republic of Korea – both non-classical Western democracies – each experienced a very different democratization process and adopted a different kind of democratic regime. This is strongly expressed in the form of their judicial review mechanisms that are aimed in different ways at assisting citizens in encouraging the courts to review laws and policies. Given this backdrop, through the analysis of the attitudes of the Japanese and Korea's citizens to their judicial review mechanisms we search for civic attitudes in these societies. By doing so, we try to contribute to the great debate regarding the capability of non-Western societies that did not develop from a well-rooted liberal culture to adopt and internalize liberal-democratic values.
KW - Japan
KW - Korea
KW - Western democratization model
KW - democracy
KW - judicial review
KW - non-Western democratization model
KW - social change
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U2 - 10.1080/03906701.2015.1017354
DO - 10.1080/03906701.2015.1017354
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AN - SCOPUS:84938984575
SN - 0390-6701
VL - 25
SP - 318
EP - 332
JO - International Review of Sociology
JF - International Review of Sociology
IS - 2
ER -