Author: Doh Chull Shin | Journal of Democracy

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

Articles by Doh Chull Shin:

July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3

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

January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1

How People View Democracy: Halting Progress in Korea and Taiwan

Judging from their citizens’ middling levels of support for and satisfaction with democracy, both Korea and Taiwan are still far from democratic consolidation.

April 2005, Volume 16, Issue 2

Challenge and Change in East Asia: Is Democracy the Only Game in Town?

In three of the six democracies surveyed by the East Asia Barometer, a majority of respondents prefer democracy to its alternatives. In the other three, however, a lingering nostalgia for authoritarianism stands in the way of democratic consolidation.

October 2007, Volume 18, Issue 4

Understanding Democracy: Data from Unlikely Places

Some skeptics have asked whether ordinary people possess an understanding of democracy that allows them to evaluate it as a form of government. Our research yields three generalizations about popular understanding of democracy.

Books:

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

"An important milestone in the study of democratic quality, and an excellent resource for both scholarly researchers and graduate courses on comparative democracy and democratization."—Daunis Auerson, Political Studies Review

How People View Democracy

No serious student of democracy can afford to be without this book. It offers an original and comprehensive view of what citizens around the world think as democracy's global "third wave" prepares to enter its fourth and perhaps most challenging decade.