Is democracy the only game in town?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 88-101

  Shin, Doh Chull ^a   Wells, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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References (23)

1. For a discussion of these transitions, see the United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Reports (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) and Larry Diamond, "Universal Democracy," Policy Review 119 (April 2002): 3-25.
2. Terry Lynn Karl, "Imposing Consent? Electoralism vs. Democratization in El Salvador," in Paul W. Drake and Eduardo Silva, eds., Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85 (San Diego: Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, 1986); and
3. Thomas Carothers, "The End of the Transition Paradigm," Journal of Democracy 13 (January 2002): 5-21.
4. See Gerard Alexander, The Sources of Democratic Consolidation (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002);
5. Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Towards Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999);
6. and Doh Chull Shin and Chong-Min Park, "The Democratization of Mass Political Orientations in South Korea," International Journal of Public Opinion Research 15 (Autumn 2003): 265-84.
7. For more information, see www.eastasiabarometer.org.
8. Japan: N = 1,418; South Korea: N = 1,500; Mongolia: N = 1,096; the Philippines: N = 1,200; Taiwan: N = 1,415; Thailand: N = 1,546.
9. Juan J. Linz and Alfred C. Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 5.
10. Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel present this argument in their forth-coming work Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
11. Harry Eckstein, "A Culturalist Theory of Political Change," American Political Science Review 82 (September 1988);
12. Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
13. Francis Fukuyama, "The Primacy of Culture," Journal of Democracy 6 (January 1995): 7-14.
14. Richard Rose and William Mishler, "Mass Reactions to Regime Change in Eastern Europe," British Journal of Political Science 24 (April 1994): 159-82;
15. and Doh Chull Shin, Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), ch. 3.
16. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, "Mapping Political Support in the 1990s: A Global Analysis," in Pippa Norris, ed., Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999);
17. and Doh Chull Shin and Peter McDonough, "The Dynamics of Popular Reactions to Democratization in Korea," Journal of Public Policy 19 (1999): 1-32.
18. The Freedom in the World 2005 survey data is available at www.freedomhouse.org.
19. The Global Corruption Report 2004 is available at www.transparency.org.
20. Lucian Pye, Asian Power and Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985);
21. Robert Scalapino, The Politics of Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989);
22. Francis Fukuyama, "Confucianism and Democracy," Journal of Democracy 6 (April 1995): 20-33;
23. and Mark Thompson, "Whatever Happened to 'Asian Values'?" Journal of Democracy 12 (October 2001): 154-65.