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A 36-month grant of $175,000 for the Asian Barometer: A Regional Survey Network for Producing, Analyzing and Disseminating Survey Results on Popular Attitudes.   Total Budget:                                                  $1,520,000, 11% funded by HLF Other sources of support:                              Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan   Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) is an applied research program examining public opinion on political values, democracy and governance, and development. Its network encompasses teams from fourteen East and Southeast Asian political systems, including China, and five South Asian countries. It is one of five large-scale regional survey projects established over the last two decades that have joined forces to form the Global Barometer Survey for comparative work. Its digital archive makes cross-national survey data and related publications accessible online. At a time of concern about democratic recession, ABS proposes to redirect its research orientation to examine the sources of democratic deconsolidation at the mass level. A grant will be used for planning workshops, data collection, data dissemination, training, and collaboration between American and Asian scholars.    A 1991 grant to Columbia University helped launch ABS. Since then, we have provided several grants for earlier waves of ABS surveys.   This grant would advance Asia’s Goal 1 (advancement of academic study of Asia) and Goal 2(a) (prepare policymakers and diplomats to craft informed policy).