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What
is 'good government'? Is it transparent, responsive, small and
unobtrusive, or on the contrary, big and active? And is 'good
government' the same everywhere, or do regional differences of opinion
have to be acknowledged? This short study aims to answer some of these
questions by presenting the opinions of 7,127 respondents from China,
Denmark, Finland, Japan, Korea and Sweden. Surprising results were
revealed: within the global political context, the political cultures of
East Asia and the Nordic countries have common traits regarding people's
expectations of their governments. Unexpectedly, popular control of
government is not alien to East Asian political opinion; even more
surprisingly is, however, the fact that the moral, paternalistic
leadership style so widely accepted in East Asia attracts a positive
response in the Nordic countries as well. This volume offers a first
glimpse of a comprehensive comparative study conducted by the Eurasia
Political Culture Research Network (EPCReN) in 1999-2000. This is a
pioneer study that aims to spear-head comparative social science
research springing from the growing mutual interest between Asia and
Europe. Published
by NIAS Press |
