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Partisanship and Democratization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Doh Chull Shin  and
Rollin F. Tusalem
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How do attachments to political parties among the mass publics of East Asia affect the process of democratization in the region? Analyses of the East Asia Barometer surveys reveal that partisanship motivates East Asians to endorse the democratic performance of their political system and embrace democracy as the best possible system of government. These findings accord, by and large, with the socialization, cognitive dissonance, and rational choice theories of partisanship.

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cognitive dissonancedemocratizationEast Asianspartisanshiprational choiceand socialization
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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Party Choice and Partisanship in East Asia , August 2007 , pp. 323 - 343
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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