What's New

  The Asian Barometer is introduced in the latest website of "Economist. COM". Please see the related news here.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=11841531 (updated August 5, 2008)

Articles presented at The Asian Barometer International Conference on "The State of Democratic Governance in Asia" can be found at the Publications-ABS Conference papers. Quick link here. (updated July 7, 2008)

The Asian Barometer is to hold an international conference on "The State of Democratic Governance in Asia" in Taipei on June 20-21, 2008. This outreach is to provide a platform between the scholars of ABS and experts from democracy supporting agencies to exchange the sources and policies in supporting democratic development in the region. (updated April 30, 2008)

New article comparing citizens' attitudes across the globe (Asia, Arab World, Africa, and Latin America) is now uploaded and can be found at Publications-Academic Output section. (updated April 30, 2008)

The first Asian Barometer Survey is completed in Malaysia in December 2007. To read the preliminary survey report, please go to Publications-Working Paper Series for more details. Meanwhile, the Malaysia team also presented the survey result at the International Islamic University. Please see the related news here http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/National/2108323/Article/index_html (updated December 14, 2007)


New Working papers can be found in Publications-Working Paper section. The new compiled papers include papers presented at the 2007 ABS international conference and preliminary survey results of Indonesia and Singapore surveys. (updated October 4, 2007)

Paper presented at the Asian Barometer International Conference on "Why Asian Support Democracy and Why Not?" can be viewed at the Publications-ABS Conference Papers section (updated August 17, 2007)

The Asian Barometer Survey is going to hold an international conference on August 9-10, 2007. The theme of the conference is "Why Asians Support Democracy and Why Not?". Please view tentative agenda here (Agenda) (updated July 11, 2007)

Information about new published articles of Asian Barometer Survey can be found at "Publications-ABS Academic Output" section. (updated May 30, 2007)

Wave-two questionnaire can be viewed and downloaded here (download) (updated May 14, 2007)

New article written by Prof. Andrew J. Nathan "Political Culture and Regime Support in Asia" is now available for download here. (download) (updated April 25, 2007)

The Mongolia Team has published the comparison of 2003 and 2006 surveys on their website. Please visit www.academy.org.mn/ for more detail. (updated April 11, 2007)

The Chinese version of Asian Barometer website is now available at http://eacsurvey.law.ntu.edu.tw/

Scholars of ABS jointly edit the forthcoming special issue for the Journal of East Asian Studies. The special issue is titled "Party Choice and Partisanship in East Asia". Please view the table of contents here. (updated February 7, 2007) 

Preliminary survey result of the 2006 Mongolia survey can be found at www.academy.org.mn. In Mongolian version of the website, visitors can also find other compared results of the Mongolia Surveys 2003 and 2006. Comparison in English will be available soon.

 The Asian Barometer Survey and the West-East Center jointly held a seminar on “The Development of Electoral Democracy in East Asia”in Hawaii on July 16-17, 2006. (view agenda here)