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How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu; Larry Diamond; Andrew J. Nathan; Doh Chull Shin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 definitive account of the way in which East Asians understand their governments and their roles as citizens. Contributors use their expert local knowledge to analyze responses from a set of core questions, revealing both common patterns and national characteristics in citizens' views of democracy. They explore sources of divergence and convergence in attitudes within and across nations. The findings are sobering. Japanese citizens are disillusioned. The region's new democracies

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Author

Yun-han Chu; Larry Diamond; Andrew J. Nathan; Doh Chull Shin

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231145350

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities