Public Opinion in New Democracies: Political Ambivalence in South Korea and Taiwan

Issue Date July 1997
Volume 8
Issue 3
Page Numbers 109-24
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About the Authors

Doh Chull Shin

Doh C. Shin is professor of political science at the University of Missouri and director of the Korean Democracy Barometer surveys.

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Huoyan Shyu

Huoyan Shyu is chairman of the department of political science at the Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy of the Academia Sinica in Taipei.

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