Caging the reasons of state: Discipline and constitutionalism in the bureaucratic pursuit of national development---Chosun, South and North Korean cases.

摘要

My dissertation identifies the conditions needed to sustain a developmental state. I argue that the presence of 'disciplinary capital' and the institutionalization of 'leadership succession' determine the developmental patterns for bureaucratic pursuit of national economic growth. Chosun , South and North 'Korean state-bureaucratic cases' are selected to compete with alternative explanations with uncontrollable factors minimized. The historical-comparative case study conducted in this dissertation shows that, while development takes off with a mass-provision of disciplinary capital, underinstitutionalization of succession founded upon the 'principle of accountability' overtime tends to produce unsustainable patterns. Only when both conditions are positively satisfied, state-directed development is sustainable.