Social and Cultural Supports for Pluralist Democracy in Eight Asian Nations: A Cross-National, Within-Nation Analysis.

This paper examines relative impacts of cultural socialization and interactions with government on support for democracy and regime legitimacy across eight Asian nations based upon surveys of populations in these countries. Results show that cultural socialization has more impact than Mishler and Rose observed in a study of Central Europe, but interactions with government also produce differences in attitudes. Inclusion of dummy variables indicates that identification of individual indicators allows substitutions of variables for country contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]