Doh C. Shin

Doh C. Shin is Jack A. Peltason Scholar in residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy in the University of California-Irvine.  As the founder of the Korea Barometer Surveys, he has directed 12 waves of national sample surveys in Korea, since 1988 when the country formally became a third-wave democracy. With these surveys and others, he has authored, co-authored, and co-edited eight books, including Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Economic Crisis and Dual Transition in Korea (Seoul National University Press, 2004); Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim (Oxford University Press, 2006); How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2009); The Quality of Life in Korea (Kluwer Academic, 2003); and The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia (Springer, 2009).  His next book entitled Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Asian Values Debate will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.  Recently, he assumed the co-editorship of Springer’s book series on quality of life in Asia