Are “Asian values” an impediment to the liberal democratisation of historically Confucian East Asia?

• Main Author: Soh, Ah Kiat
• Other Authors: Ana Cristina Dias Alves
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71649
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent years have seen a great deal of interest in the extent to which “Asian Values,” derived from the legacies of Confucianism, inhibit a country’s acceptance of liberal democracy. This paper relies on the 2012 findings from To-Chol Sin’s analyses of the World Values Survey and Asian Barometer Sur...