This study confronts the results of the World Values Survey conducted in China in June 2001 with three theories on the origins of democratic values. It shows that Chinese people have rather high democratic aspirations. The Chinese middle class offers the highest level of support for democracy. The negative relation between age and democratic-value orientations confirms the generation-replacement theory. This study also shows that education plays a critical role in support of democracy
There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development and democrati...
The new economic importance of the Chinese economy has created Chinese expectations that the country...
Contrary to the prediction of modernization theory, the vibrant Chinese economy and its growing midd...
Democratization in China has been receiving attention from all over the world. In the US, a large pe...
Since the third wave of democratization reached East Asia in the 1990s, whether the new democracies ...
Does the middle class in China think and act democratically and hence serve as the harbinger of demo...
The modernization theory suggests that the entrepreneurs and the middle class have a strong demand f...
Authoritarian leaders often claim that they promote democratic institutions such as elections and de...
Why has China not democratized? The most recent book by Chen and Dickson provides a hint. Chen and D...
Here is a valuable but also complex book. In fact, the reply to the question posed in the title cann...
China established Asia's first republic in 1911, but still fell short of democracy at the end of the...
Does the emerging middle class support democracy? This study provides a comparative analysis of pol...
This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies that examine cross-cultural differences in soc...
This thesis is centrally concerned with the ‘democratic debate’ and assessing the prospects for demo...
There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development and democrati...
There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development and democrati...
The new economic importance of the Chinese economy has created Chinese expectations that the country...
Contrary to the prediction of modernization theory, the vibrant Chinese economy and its growing midd...
Democratization in China has been receiving attention from all over the world. In the US, a large pe...
Since the third wave of democratization reached East Asia in the 1990s, whether the new democracies ...
Does the middle class in China think and act democratically and hence serve as the harbinger of demo...
The modernization theory suggests that the entrepreneurs and the middle class have a strong demand f...
Authoritarian leaders often claim that they promote democratic institutions such as elections and de...
Why has China not democratized? The most recent book by Chen and Dickson provides a hint. Chen and D...
Here is a valuable but also complex book. In fact, the reply to the question posed in the title cann...
China established Asia's first republic in 1911, but still fell short of democracy at the end of the...
Does the emerging middle class support democracy? This study provides a comparative analysis of pol...
This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies that examine cross-cultural differences in soc...
This thesis is centrally concerned with the ‘democratic debate’ and assessing the prospects for demo...
There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development and democrati...
There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development and democrati...
The new economic importance of the Chinese economy has created Chinese expectations that the country...
Contrary to the prediction of modernization theory, the vibrant Chinese economy and its growing midd...