How the Public Views Democracy and its Competitors in East Asia: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. Taiwan Democracy Project, CDDRL

On May 25-26, the Taiwan Democracy Project (with support from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco) held its seventh annual conference entitled "How the Public Views Democracy and its Competitors in East Asia: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective.” The conference, cosponsored by the Program for East Asia Democratic Studies at National Taiwan University, brought together leading political scientists from Taiwan and social scientists from a number of other Asian countries to examine the levels, trends, and causal determinants of support for democracy in Taiwan and throughout East Asia. The papers analyzed data from the recently completed third wave of the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS), with discussants including leading scholars of comparative politics and comparative public opinion globally.