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 have yet to prove themselves, and
citizens in authoritarian China assess their regime's democratic
performance relatively favorably. The contributors to this volume
contradict the claim that democratic governance is incompatible
with East Asian cultures but counsel against complacency toward the
fate of democracy in the region. While many forces affect
democratic consolidation, popular attitudes are a crucial factor.
This book shows how and why skepticism and frustration are the
ruling sentiments among today's East Asians.
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