Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Economic Crises, Political Elites, and Democratic Stability 2. The Outbreak of the Asian Economic Crisis and Its Socioeconomic Consequences 3. Political Circumstances before the Asian Economic Crisis: Elite Configurations in the Five Countries 4. Economic Crisis, Divided Elites and Prospects for an Elite Settlement 5. Economic Crisis, Fragmented Elites and Prospects for Elite Convergence 6. Economic Crisis, Consensual Elites and Prospects for the Further Consensus 7. Conclusions

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Konkuk University, Korea