Doh C. Shin

I am a chair professor of political science at the University of Missouri and am the founder of the Korea Barometer and a co-founder of the Asian Barometer. For the past two decades, I have conducted comparative research on the democratization of authoritarian politics and cultures in East Asia and other regions. I have also conducted public opinion research on the quality of life among the mass publics of Korea and other Confucian countries in East Asia. In collaboration with scholars in several regions of the world, I am currently working on three projects dealing with the shifting dynamics of democratic political culture, popular images of government around the globe, and the quality of citizens' lives in Confucian Asia.
 

Education

B.A. (1962) Political Science, Seoul National University; M.A. (1966) Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (1972) Political Science, University of Illinois
 

Experience

• Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, 1972-99
• Fulbright Professor of Political Science, Seoul National University, 1981 & 1991
• Visiting Professor, Chuo University,Tokyo, Japan, May-June 2008
• Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine, Spring 2005
• Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Spring 2003
• Visiting Professor, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2002
• Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, Summer 2000
• Visiting Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Fall 1998
• Visiting Professor, the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland,Winter 1997
• Visiting Scholar, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996

Expertise

Democratization, Korean politics; political culture, and the quality of life