Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim

ISBN-13: 9780199297252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 336 str.

Russell J. Dalton; Doh C. Shin

Opis

East Asia is one of the most dynamic areas of political change in the world today. What role do citizens play in these processes of change? Drawing upon a unique set of coordinated public opinion surveys conducted by the World Values Survey, this book provides a dramatically new image of the political cultures of East Asia.

O autorze

RUSSELL J. DALTON is Professor in the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. He has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Mannheim, a German Marshall Research Fellow and a POSCO Fellow at the East/West Center. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory. His recent publications include Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices (Oxford 2003), Citizen Politics (CQ Press 2006), and The Green Rainbow (Yale 1994); he coauthored Critical Masses (MIT Press 1999); and is editor of Democracy Transformed? (Oxford 2003) and Parties without Partisans (Oxford 2001).