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How East Asians View Democracy
Yun-Han Chu (Ed.)
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Description for How East Asians View Democracy
Hardback. Editor(s): Chu, Yun-han; Choffnes, Andrew J.; Diamond, Larry; Cao, Liqun; Nathan, Andrew J.; Shin, Doh Chull. Num Pages: 328 pages, 33 illus., 58 tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a ... Read more
East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231145343
SKU
V9780231145343
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About Yun-Han Chu (Ed.)
Yun-han Chu is distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica and professor of political science at National Taiwan University. The coordinator of the East Asian Barometer Survey, Chu is an associate editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies, and his recent publications include Crafting Democracy in Taiwan, China Under Jiang Zemin, and The New ... Read more
Reviews for How East Asians View Democracy
A fascinating study. Business Times Singapore This rigorously designed study... will surely become a classic in the field. Foreign Affairs A valuable but also complex book... It is impossible, in this short review, to do justice to the richness of the data compiled and of the conclusions proposed... Essential reading. China Perspectives the contributions to this edited volume represent a ... Read more