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Introduction: Parties, Party Choice, and Partisanship in East Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Russell J. Dalton ,
Yun-han Chu  and
Doh Chull Shin
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Abstract

Political parties are widely seen as “a sine qua non for the organization of the modern democratic polity and for the expression of political pluralism.” The manner in which parties articulate political interests largely defines the nature of electoral competition, the representation of citizen interests, the policy consequences of elections—and ultimately the functioning of the democratic process.

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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Party Choice and Partisanship in East Asia , August 2007 , pp. 177 - 184
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4. These articles were first presented at a research conference held at the East West Center in Honolulu. We want to acknowledge Chung Nam Kim and the POSCO program, the East Asian Barometer Program, and the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine, for their support of this project.Google Scholar

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