Doh C. Shin
Office: 309 Professional Bldg.
Phone: 573-882-7873
Email: ShinD@missouri.edu
Doh C. Shin (Professor) has been with the Department since 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and specializes in comparative politics.
Research Statement
Shin’s research aims to unravel the cultural and institutional dynamics of democratization from a comparative perspective. His multi-dimensional and multi-level approach was first outlined in his article published in World Politics in 1994. This approach was comparatively tested in the article published in the British Journal of Political Science in 2001. The further refinements of this approach from the perspective of congruence theory are reported in Chapter 14 of Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, published by Oxford University Press in spring 2007.
My research on democratization and marketization in South Korea was reported in two books published, respectively, by Cambridge University Press in 1999 and Seoul National University Press in 2004. My comparative research on political democratization and economic liberalization in nine Pacific Asian countries was reported in a book published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
The most important current writing project is to complete a book manuscript examining how civic activism and norms affect the consolidation of nascent democratic rule in South Korea. The theory of civic democracy advocated by Alexis Tocqueville and Robert Putnam is the theoretical foundation of this book project.
Other writing projects include another book project evaluating and prescribing the quality of life in Confucian Asia and research papers analyzing the sources and consequences of popular conceptions of democracy across four different regions of the world.
Collaboration projects include three barometer projects—the Asian Barometer, the Asia Barometer, and the Korean Democracy Barometer— that monitor on a regular basis democratization, marketization, and globalization in East Asia and Korea. Besides these regional barometers, Shin takes part in the Global Network of Barometers. With American and Asian colleagues, he just completed a special issue on "Party Choice and Partisanship in East Asia" for publication in the Journal of East Asian Studies.
Teaching activity centers on the development of a new course examining democratic regime change in East Asia.
Courses Taught
Democracy in the Modern World
Comparative Political Culture
Introduction to Comparative Politics (Graduate)
Research Seminar on Democratization (Graduate)
Research Seminar on Democratic Politics in East Asia (Graduate)
Recent Representative Publications
"Democratization: Perspectives from Global Citizenries," in Russell Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (Oxford University Press, 2007), 259-282.
"How Has Democratic Regime Change Affected Mass Political Ideology?" International Political Science Review (October 2005), 381-396.
"Has Democracy Become the Only Game in Town? Testing the Notion of Democratic Consolidation in East Asia," (with Jason Wells) Journal of Democracy 16 (2) (April 2005), 88-101.
"Democratization Backwards: The Problem of Third-Wave Democracies," (with Richard Rose) British Journal of Political Science 31 (April 2001), 331-354.
Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim (co-edited with Russell Dalton) (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Economic Crisis and Dual Transition in Korea (co-authored with Sunhyuk Kim) (Seoul National University Press, 2004).
The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives (co-edited with Chong-Min Park) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).