Typology of Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior and Typology of Societies Focusing on Sinic East

Inoguchi, Takashi; Le, Lien Thi Quynh

In this chapter we attempt relating the typology of global quasi-legislative behavior (in this volume) to the typology of societies (Inoguchi 2019) focusing on Sinic East. The latter, the typology of societies, is based on daily life satisfaction surveyed by the AsiaBarometer quality of life research carried out in 29 Asian societies with face-to-face interviewing and with the sample size of 800 to 2,000 in each of 29 Asian societies (Inoguchi and Fujii 2013; see also Appendix E). The typology of societies is based on factor analyzing people’s daily life satisfaction with 16 life items (domains, aspects and styles). It is a profile of societies from the bottom up rather than top down. Since both the typology of global quasi-legislative behavior has proved to be reasonably strongly related to the internal preferences of each society obtained by the World Value Survey through the world data used in Welzel 2013 and statistically examined positively in Inoguchi and Le, 2019, another data set of domestic daily life satisfaction collected in Sinic East societies in 2019 has been examined and proved to be reasonably related each other. One strong finding here is that those domestic preferences gauged on the experts’ assessment of regimes’ nature like democratic vs. authoritarian does not seem to work well in comparison to the daily life satisfaction in 16 items of domains, aspects and styles and the values and norms in concrete life situations.