Appraising the Quality of Democracy in South Korea: From the Perspectives of Ordinary Citizens and their Daily Experiences
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In recent years, an increasing number of individual scholars and research institutions have made serious efforts to discern the distinct qualities of democracy and distinguish high-quality democracies from low-quality ones. Their research endeavors to date have all focused on the extent to which political regimes actually embody generic values of democracy. This study of Korean democracy offers and tests three sets of new ideas for a more systematic assessment of the quality of democracy from the perspective of ordinary citizens. The first set of these ideas focuses on the general quality of a regime’s performance as a democracy. The second set of ideas deals with how well a regime performs as an electoral democracy. The third, final set of ideas focuses on the question of how well a democratic regime performs as a liberal democracy. We have tested these three sets of new ideas with the first wave of the East Asia Barometer survey conducted in Korea during the month of February 2003.
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In recent years, an increasing number of individual scholars and research institutions have made serious efforts to discern the distinct qualities of democracy and distinguish high-quality democracies from low-quality ones. Their research endeavors to date have all focused on the extent to which political regimes actually embody generic values of democracy. This study of Korean democracy offers and tests three sets of new ideas for a more systematic assessment of the quality of democracy from the perspective of ordinary citizens. The first set of these ideas focuses on the general quality of a regime’s performance as a democracy. The second set of ideas deals with how well a regime performs as an electoral democracy. The third, final set of ideas focuses on the question of how well a democratic regime performs as a liberal democracy. We have tested these three sets of new ideas with the first wave of the East Asia Barometer survey conducted in Korea during the month of February 2003.