The AsiaBarometer: Its Aim, Its Scope, Its Strength

Inoguchi, Takashi

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“…The four waves of the World Values Survey now stretch from 1981 to 2000 and were conducted in 78 countries, containing more than 80 percent of the world's population. Surveys of regional values in non-western societies are also notable, such as the East Asia Barometer, the AsiaBarometer, and the Afro-Barometer (Bratton et al, 2004;Chu, 2003;Inoguchi, 2004Inoguchi, , 2005.…”

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A Time Machine: New Evidence of Post-Materialist Value Change

Taniguchi

2006

International Political Science Review

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The voluminous literature generated by Ronald Inglehart’s thesis that a shift in values from materialist to post-materialist occurs among citizens as societies modernize indicates the seminal nature of the theory. The predictive power of the theory has become more reliable with the continuation of surveys over the decades since the theory’s inception. Nevertheless, one problem remains unsolved using conventional methodology: how to determine the extent to which the proportion of post-materialists was already increasing during the years preceding the first survey in 1970. This article contributes to the solution of that problem by analyzing the values contained in 33,479 Japanese newspaper editorials from 1945 to 2000. By reflecting the public’s values, Japanese newspapers are able to maintain the largest circulations in the world. Moreover, the lifetime employment system in Japan enables us to “control for” life-cycle effects on value change, because the age of editorial board members has been constant during the postwar period. Using qualitative and quantitative techniques, I confirm the thesis that value change occurs during the process of economic development. My findings support the socialization hypothesis of the original theory, that is, that the basic values of a person reflect the socioeconomic conditions that prevailed during his or her pre-adult years.

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A Time Machine: New Evidence of Post-Materialist Value Change

Taniguchi

2006

International Political Science Review

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“…The sampling method involved three stages (Inoguchi, 2004). First, capital and major metropolitan cities were purposely chosen for the survey districts in countries, and the sampling areas in these cities were randomly selected using the method of probability proportionate to its size.…”

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Individual and Country‐Level Effects of Social Trust on Happiness: The Asia Barometer Survey

Tokuda

Fujii

Inoguchi

2010

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The relationship of individual‐level and country‐level social trust to individuals' happiness was investigated, using cross‐national data of 39,082 participants from 29 Asian countries. For self‐reported happiness, 2.0% of the participants responded they were very happy, while 18.7% were very unhappy. The significant variables associated with happiness were female gender, being age 20–29 years or 60–69 years, married, high income and education, students/retired/homemaker, religious belief, good health, and higher individual and aggregate social trust. Individual health, social trust, and aggregate social trust were all independently associated with people's happiness. People were more likely to be happy if they lived in countries with higher aggregate social trust than countries with poor social trust.

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“…Data used in this study were collected as part of the project asiaBarometer 2003. This regional opinion survey project, which was headquartered in Japan and commissioned to research organizations and institutions in each participating country, was designed to examine the physical, psychological, and sociological dimensions of the lives of people who live in 10 different asian countries (Inoguchi, 2004). The asiaBarometer survey has been conducted annually since 2002 in many East, Southeast, South, and Central asian countries, and is one of the largest and most comprehensive survey projects in the region.…”

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Citizen Trust in Police

Sun

2009

Police Quarterly

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This study assesses the extent to which Chinese citizens trust their police and explores factors that account for variation in public trust in police. Very few studies have empirically examined Chinese attitudes toward police. Using conflict theory as the guiding theoretical framework and interview data collected from eight Chinese cities, the study tests the effects of conflict variables, including gender, age, education, income, employment, and perceived political influence, and relevant control variables on Chinese public trust in police. The results show that conflict variables only have a modest explanatory power of Chinese attitudes toward police. Younger Chinese and Chinese with lower levels of perceived political power tend to have lower levels of trust in police. Chinese attitudes toward police are also influenced by satisfaction with public safety, governmental capability of dealing with crime, quality of life, and corruption among government officials. Implications for future research are discussed. a substantial amount of empirical research has been conducted since the 1960s to examine public perceptions of police in the United States. Such research is important because how the public conceptualize and evaluate police can directly or indirectly shape the way they respond to police, the political support and cooperation they render to police, and their willingness to participate in police and community anticrime programs and efforts. Little attention, however, has been paid to how people in the other side of the Pacific Ocean-People's Republic of China (hereafter, PRC or China)-view the police in their country.The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which Chinese citizens trust their police and explore factors that account for variation in public trust in police. China is an important setting for this type of research for several reasons. First, although China is the most populated country in the world, empirical investigation of Chinese perceptions of the police is limited to a handful of studies (i.e.,

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The AsiaBarometer: Its Aim, Its Scope, Its Strength

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

A Time Machine: New Evidence of Post-Materialist Value Change

A Time Machine: New Evidence of Post-Materialist Value Change

Individual and Country‐Level Effects of Social Trust on Happiness: The Asia Barometer Survey

Citizen Trust in Police

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