
Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim : Congruence Theory and Political Culture.
Title:
Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim : Congruence Theory and Political Culture.
Author:
Shin, Doh Chull.
ISBN:
9780191516375
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (333 pages)
Series:
Comparative Politics
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1. Citizens, Democracy, and Markets -- The framework of congruence theory -- Describing democracy and markets -- The World Values Survey -- Political culture, politics, and markets -- Conclusion -- Part I. Social Modernization and Value Change -- 2. The Human Development Model of Democracy: East Asia in Perspective -- Empowerment through capabilities -- Empowerment through motivations -- Empowerment through entitlements -- Aggregation as error reduction -- Intrinsic and instrumental support for democracy -- Conclusion -- 3. Self-Expression, Asian Values, and Democracy: East Asia in Global Perspective -- Measuring self-expression values -- Developing a self-expression factor for East Asia -- Is there a Confucian Asia? -- Asian values and democracy -- Rise of self-expression values in East Asia: 1930s-1990s -- Education and self-expression values -- Benign authoritarianism? -- Self-expression values and democracy in East Asia -- Conclusion -- Part II. Orientations Toward Democracy -- 4. Democratic Aspirations and Social Modernization -- The extent of democracy -- Measuring attitudes toward democracy -- Social modernization and democracy -- Political culture and democracy -- 5. Authority Orientations and Democratic Attitudes: A Test of the Asian Values Hypothesis -- The Asian values debate -- Orientations toward authority -- Testing congruence theory -- Confucian traditions and congruence theory -- 6. Civil Society, Social Capital, and Democracy -- Group memberships and civil society -- Civil society engagement -- The consequences of group membership -- Conclusion -- 7. Political Trust, Political Performance, and Support for Democracy -- The elements of political support -- Confidence in government -- Potential explanations for political support in nondemocracies.
Modeling confidence in government -- Orientations toward government and democracy -- Government and regime -- Part III. Orientations Toward Markets -- 8. Exploring Weber's Theory of Capitalism in Confucian East Asia -- Prior survey research -- The notion of market capitalism -- Measurement -- Levels of support for market capitalism as an economic system -- The most and least preferred types of capitalist economic systems -- Commitment to the norms of capitalist conduct -- Confucian values and support for capitalism -- Summary and conclusions -- 9. Public Support for Market Reforms in Nine Asian Countries: Divergence of a Market-Based Economy -- Literature review -- Measurement -- Three dimensions of market reform -- Does globalization promote support for market reform? -- Asian publics and market reform -- 10. Risk Avoidance and Economic Value Orientation: Functioning of Postmaterialist Values in the Pacific Rim Countries -- Postmaterialism and risk avoidance -- The consequences of postmaterialism -- Risk avoidance, postmaterialism, and economic orientations -- Analytic model and variables -- Multivariate analyses of economic orientations -- Discussion -- 11. Public Attitudes Toward the Market Economy in Vietnam -- Vietnam's history of economic reform -- Survey research in Vietnam -- Public attitudes toward a market economy in Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Part IV. Democracy and Markets -- 12. The Parallel Development of Democracy and Markets -- Support for democracy and markets in other regions -- Comparing levels of public support for democracy and capitalism -- Support for parallel development -- Supporters of market democracy -- Democracy, markets, and the future -- 13. Political Culture and Political Change -- Cultural Congruence -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- A. Methodology of the World Values Surveys -- B. Survey Questions and Indices -- References.
Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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