This paper examines how academic freedom influences electoral democracy in 44 Asian nations drawing on country‐wide panel data (2000–2019) obtained from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem)‐2022. For its analytical framework, this study employs dynamic panel regression models. The Asian region, which represents the world's largest and most economically dynamic democracies, is an interesting research site to investigate this nexus due to the region's long‐term struggle to achieve its democratic aspirations. The study finds that the current‐level of electoral democracy in Asian countries is significantly associated with their antecedent level of academic freedom. Moreover, the results reveal that it takes approximately 7 years for academic freedom to yield a significant impact on electoral democracy. These results are robust across different sets of model specifications, sub‐samples, and definitions of academic freedom.

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学术自由对亚洲地区选举民主的影响

本文利用从民主多样性 (V-Dem)-2022 获得的全国面板数据（2000-2019），研究了学术自由如何影响 44 个亚洲国家的选举民主。对于其分析框架，本研究采用动态面板回归模型。亚洲地区代表着世界上最大、经济最具活力的民主国家，由于该地区为实现其民主愿望而进行的长期斗争，因此成为调查这种关系的一个有趣的研究地点。研究发现，亚洲国家当前的选举民主水平与其之前的学术自由水平显着相关。此外，结果显示，学术自由大约需要7年时间才能对选举民主产生重大影响。这些结果在不同的模型规范、子样本和学术自由的定义中都是稳健的。