How East Asians View Democracy

by Yun-Han Chu

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145357
• ISBN13: 9780231145350
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"