VALUE CHANGE AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN JAPAN AND KOREA

协与至平

This study explores the underlying causes of the processes of democratic reform in Japan and
Korea over the past decade. In both nations, elite-challenging pressures from below have been
the stimulus forcing reforms on the governing elites. For this reason, changes in mass attitudes
and values become a crucial explanatory variable in accounting for recent political reforms. The
authors discuss the pattern of political development in these two nations and their theory of how
and why values are changing from an authoritarian to libertarian set of attitudinal orientations.
This pattern of value change has been eroding the traditional tolerance of the mass publics in
these two nations for authoritarian and corrupt practices. The authors empirically demonstrate
how and why values have been changing and how these changes are related to increasing levels
of elite-challenging protest potential and leftist reform-oriented attitudes.


VALUE CHANGE AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN JAPAN AND KOREA
SCOTT C. FLANAGAN
Florida State University
AIE-RIE LEE
Texas Tech University

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, Vol. 33 No. 6, June 2000 626-659