Democratization in Confucian East Asia: Citizen Politics in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam
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Postscript: Protest in Early21st-Century China

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Chapter 7: Self-Expression Valuesand the Infrastructure of Democracy

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Civil Society and Democracy

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Self-Expression Values and Civil Society

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Discussion and Conclusion

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Chapter 8: The Coming of Critical Citizens: Self-Expression Values and Political Trust in China

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Political Trust: Global Trends

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Political Trust in China: Defining the Question

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Testing the “Before Critical Citizens” Theory

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Empirical Findings

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Discussion and Conclusion

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Part IV: Conclusion

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Chapter 9: Interpreting the Findings: When Will China Become Democratic?

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Predicting Democratization

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A Simpler but More Focused Prediction

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