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The purpose of the paper is to apply a new methodology, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), to studies of democratization in 14 Asian countries. Some Asian countries have deviant features about the issue of democratization, such as Singapore and India. Since QCA incorporates an analysis on deviant cases, it is useful to apply this approach to the problem of democratization, especially in Asia.Our results indicate that Asian countries are more likely to adopt democratic politicalsystems (A) if in poor countries, (i) both parliamentary system and good economic performance are present (India and Bangladesh) or (ii) both presidential system and heterogeneous population exist (Indonesia and Philippines), or (B) if in wealthy countries, the two conditions of both good economic performance and homogeneous population are satisfied (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand).