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How Global Citizenries Think about Democracy: An Evaluation and Synthesis of Recent Public Opinion Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2018

DOH CHULL SHIN  and
HANNAH JUNE KIM
DOH CHULL SHIN
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, [email protected]
HANNAH JUNE KIM
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of California, [email protected]
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Abstract

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, individual scholars and research institutes have conducted numerous public opinion surveys to monitor how global citizenries react to the process of democratization taking place in their own countries and elsewhere. This article reviews the various issues surrounding the divergent conceptions of democracy among political scientists and ordinary citizens, and synthesizes significant findings of the conceptual and empirical research based on these surveys. It also raises a set of new questions that future surveys should address to broaden and deepen our knowledge about citizen conceptions of democracy.

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Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 222 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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