Doh Chull Shin is a Jack W. Peltason Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor Emeritus, Korea Foundation Chair, and Middlebush Chair at the University of Columbia, Missouri. His research interests include democratisation and political socialisation throughout East Asia. His has published, co-authored and co-edited many books in this field including Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia (2012), The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia (2009) and How East Asians View Democracy (2008).