Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea
| dc.contributor.author | Shin, Doh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mattes, Robert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-03T09:03:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-03T09:03:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-03T08:59:57Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Winston Churchill asserted in 1947 that “democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” To date, this lesser-evil notion of democracy has been tested only in the post-communist societies of Eastern and Central Europe. As a result, little is known about how useful, or valid, this notion of democracy as a lesser evil is for analysing the popular perceptions of democracy among the mass publics of new democracies in other regions. To fill this gap in existing literature, this study analyses public opinion data from South Africa and South Korea. Our analysis of these data reveals that the Churchillian notion of democracy as a lesser evil is of limited use as an alternative paradigm for the study of democratisation, especially from the perspective of ordinary citizens in the midst of that political experience. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Shin, D., & Mattes, R. (2004). <i>Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19356 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Shin, Doh, and Robert Mattes <i>Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19356 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shin, D. C., & Wells, J. (2004). Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchillian Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 1-77011-023-2 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Shin, Doh AU - Mattes, Robert AB - Winston Churchill asserted in 1947 that “democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” To date, this lesser-evil notion of democracy has been tested only in the post-communist societies of Eastern and Central Europe. As a result, little is known about how useful, or valid, this notion of democracy as a lesser evil is for analysing the popular perceptions of democracy among the mass publics of new democracies in other regions. To fill this gap in existing literature, this study analyses public opinion data from South Africa and South Korea. Our analysis of these data reveals that the Churchillian notion of democracy as a lesser evil is of limited use as an alternative paradigm for the study of democratisation, especially from the perspective of ordinary citizens in the midst of that political experience. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 SM - 1-77011-023-2 T1 - Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea TI - Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19356 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19356 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Shin D, Mattes R. Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea. 2004 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19356 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Democracy | |
| dc.subject.other | Politics | |
| dc.title | Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |