Reviews
Agreement on the government and ruling party's priorities for the national agenda matters as much as questions of performance or procedural legitimacy. Beyond whether the government is doing well or poorly, whether its actions are lawful, or what position it takes, citizens care that the government and their representatives rank issues in the same order of importance that citizens do. A mismatch appears to create a strong sense of being unheard and an emotional backlash, strengthening people's
๐ต What is democratic politics that truly serves public sentiment? What was the fundamental intention of the candlelight protests? This book makes you reconsider those questions. Even people who are not usually interested in politics may find it helpful, if they look past the weighty cover, for understanding the issues from a neutral position without taking sides.
'Still at a primitive level and ignorant... the political forces in Korea, whether ruling or opposition, still have a primitive and ignorant understanding of public sentiment and opinion...' The candlelight demonstrations brought major change to Korean politics. This book proposes an answer to why the 'Candlelight government,' born from the power of the candlelight impeachment coalition, was replaced after five years, and examines the effects of the candlelight impeachment and the Moon Jae-in
This is an honest review written after the publisher provided the book. Korea's political landscape has largely been shaped by whether undecided and centrist voters lean one way or the other in each election. The 30 percent who support the Democratic Party and the 30 percent who support the People Power Party are often considered solid supporters who will not switch sides no matter how badly their own camp behaves. That leaves the larger remaining 40 percent, and which side they give more
We know all too well that it was the fierce candlelight demonstrations that led to a president leaving office through impeachment for the first time in constitutional history. But the Moon Jae-in administration, which began with the hopes of the whole country, failed to govern in a way that properly reflected public sentiment, contrary to expectations, and unbelievably handed power to today's ruling party after just five years. People again placed great hopes in the new administration, but the
Jeong Han-ul: Candlelight democracy draws a close after five years
Planned by Korea University's Institute of Political Studies, this seventh volume in its Political Studies series proposes an answer to the question of why the 'Candlelight government,' born from the power of the candlelight impeachment coalition, was voted out after just five years. The transfer of power to Yoon Suk Yeol and the People Power Party in the May 2022 presidential election was not an unforeseeable shock; it was a reality that had been foreshadowed. The Moon Jae-in administration and the Democratic Party of Korea called the 2016โ17 candlelight demonstrations a 'candlelight revolution' and mistook their election victory for an unlimited mandate to pursue self-defined 'revolutionary tasks' such as eradicating deep-rooted corruption and reforming the prosecution. The five years after the candlelight demonstrations offer a valuable lesson in how quickly a government can lose public support when it defines itself apart from public sentiment and governs unilaterally according to its own agenda. The book revisits changes in public opinion during Moon's five years, but its lesson applies beyond his administration and party. It can also serve as a cautionary guide for President Yoon and the People Power Party, who took power through a change of government. It asks what kind of candlelight democracy people wanted and what lessons its premature end left behind. Candlelight disconnected from public sentiment brought a backlash and punishment at the polls. If either the ruling or opposition party interprets public opinion arbitrarily and reads its election victory in its own favor, it too can become a target for replacement. The book helps readers understand the direction and principles of democracy people want, and what governments should keep in mind when setting priorities to win majority support.
Korean title: 5๋ ๋ง์ ๋ง ๋ด๋ฆฐ ์ด๋ถ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์
Korean author: ์ ํ์ธ
Korean publisher: ๋ฒ๋์จ๋๋ฌธ
ISBN-13: 9791193671047
Reviews
Agreement on the government and ruling party's priorities for the national agenda matters as much as questions of performance or procedural legitimacy. Beyond whether the government is doing well or poorly, whether its actions are lawful, or what position it takes, citizens care that the government and their representatives rank issues in the same order of importance that citizens do. A mismatch appears to create a strong sense of being unheard and an emotional backlash, strengthening people's
๐ต What is democratic politics that truly serves public sentiment? What was the fundamental intention of the candlelight protests? This book makes you reconsider those questions. Even people who are not usually interested in politics may find it helpful, if they look past the weighty cover, for understanding the issues from a neutral position without taking sides.
'Still at a primitive level and ignorant... the political forces in Korea, whether ruling or opposition, still have a primitive and ignorant understanding of public sentiment and opinion...' The candlelight demonstrations brought major change to Korean politics. This book proposes an answer to why the 'Candlelight government,' born from the power of the candlelight impeachment coalition, was replaced after five years, and examines the effects of the candlelight impeachment and the Moon Jae-in
This is an honest review written after the publisher provided the book. Korea's political landscape has largely been shaped by whether undecided and centrist voters lean one way or the other in each election. The 30 percent who support the Democratic Party and the 30 percent who support the People Power Party are often considered solid supporters who will not switch sides no matter how badly their own camp behaves. That leaves the larger remaining 40 percent, and which side they give more
We know all too well that it was the fierce candlelight demonstrations that led to a president leaving office through impeachment for the first time in constitutional history. But the Moon Jae-in administration, which began with the hopes of the whole country, failed to govern in a way that properly reflected public sentiment, contrary to expectations, and unbelievably handed power to today's ruling party after just five years. People again placed great hopes in the new administration, but the
