A Comparative Analysis of Corporatist Policymaking Coordination in Japan and Korea

Abstract

This study aims to examine the mechanisms, and the re- sults of corporatist decision-making arrangements in Korea and Japan, through the lens of the analytical framework provided by the accumu- lated literature on new corporatism. The following three findings of this study help to expand our understanding of new corporatism. First, new corporatism also requires institutional preconditions to ensure mean- ingful outcomes. When labor lacks the capacity for collective action and self-regulation, the government usually proceeds with unilateral action without an effort to build a consensus. Second, if the tripartite arrange- ment is crafted by the state with weak social partners, the success of the endeavor by and large depends on the capacity of the state to con- vince the other partners of the benefits of concertation. Finally, the re- sults of new corporatism need to be explored beyond macroeconomic in- dicators for unexpected byproducts to be revealed.

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