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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Russell Dalton and Doh Chull Shin: Citizens, Democracy and Markets 2: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart: The Human Development Model of Democracy: East Asia in Perspective 3: Tan Ern-Ser and Zhengxu Wang: Economic Change and Value Shift in East Asia 4: Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin: Democratic Aspirations and Social Modernization 5: Russell J. Dalton and Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong: Authority Orientations and Democratic Attitudes in East Asia: A Test of the 'Asian Values' Hypothesis" 6: Russell J. Dalton: Civil Society, Social Capital, and Democracy 7: Zhengxu Wang, Russell J. Dalton, and Doh Chull Shin: Political Trust, Political Performance and Support for Democracy 8: Doh Chull Shin and Russell J. Dalton: Exploring Weber's Theory of Capitalism in Confucian East Asia 9: Chung-Si Ahn and Jiho Jang: Public Support for Market Reforms in Nine Asian Countries: Divergence of a Market-Based Economy 10: Ken'ichi Ikeda and Tetsuro Kobayashi: Risk Avoidance and Economic Value Orientation: Functioning of Post-materialist values in the Pacific Rim Countries 11: Pham Minh Hac and Pham Thanh Nghi: Attitudes toward the Market Economy in Vietnam 12: Doh Chull Shin and Russell J. Dalton: The Intersection of Democracy and Markets 13: Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin: Political Culture and Political Change ...