The politics of prosecution service reform in new presidential democracies: The South Korea and Russia cases in comparative perspective

This paper explains why large-scale reform of a civil-law prosecution system will be abandoned, fail, or succeed in exceptional cases, focusing on the strategic interaction between an incumbent president and prosecutors, through a comparative analysis of the South Korea and Russia cases. A civil-law...

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Main Author: Sun-Woo Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of Eurasian Studies
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366516300045