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陳明通

Chen, Ming-tong (陳明通) is professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University. He earned his PhD in Political Science from NTU in 1991. He specializes in Political Culture, Political Development and China Studies. He has published extensively on political development in Taiwan and the Cross-Strait relationship. Notable publications include the book “Factional Politics and Political Change in Taiwan” (1995, in Chinese) and “Basic Level Elections on Either Side of the Strait and Socio-political Change” (1998, in Chinese, edited with Yongnian Zheng). Chen was vice chairman and spokesman of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) between 2000 and 2004, and served as chairman of the MAC between 2007 and 2008.

Doh C. Shin

Doh C. Shin is Jack A. Peltason Scholar in residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy in the University of California-Irvine.  As the founder of the Korea Barometer Surveys, he has directed 12 waves of national sample surveys in Korea, since 1988 when the country formally became a third-wave democracy. With these surveys and others, he has authored, co-authored, and co-edited eight books, including Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Economic Crisis and Dual Transition in Korea (Seoul National University Press, 2004); Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim (Oxford University Press, 2006); How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2009); The Quality of Life in Korea (Kluwer Academic, 2003); and The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia (Springer, 2009).  His next book entitled Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Asian Values Debate will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.  Recently, he assumed the co-editorship of Springer’s book series on quality of life in Asia
An International Conference on
Democracy in East Asia and Taiwan in Global Perspective

(Preliminary Agenda)
August 24-25, 2011
Venue: International Conference Hall (1st Basement),
GIS NTU Convention Center, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Organized by
Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

Co-Organized by
International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy

Co-Sponsored by
Program for East Asia Democratic Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

Supported by
Ministry of Interior, Republic of China


  Wednesday, August 24


08:30~09:00
Registration

09:00~09:25

Opening Ceremony: Welcome Remarks and Introduction

Den-yih Wu, Premier of the Republic of China
Yung-mau Chao, Dean of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University; President of Chinese Association of Political Science
Yi-huah Jiang, Minister of the Interior
Larry Diamond, Senior Advisor to International Forum for Democratic Studies and Coeditor of Journal of Democracy, National Endowment for Democracy
Yeh-lih Wang, Chair, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

 ( * being invited)

09:30~10:20
Keynote Speech I

Speaker: Larry Diamond, Senior Advisor to International Forum for Democratic Studies and Coeditor of Journal of Democracy, National Endowment for Democracy
Title: East Asia amid the Receding Tide of Third-Wave Democracy

Moderator:
Tzong-Ho Bau, Vice President for Administrative Affairs, National Taiwan University

10:25~11:15
Keynote Speech II


Speaker: Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Title: The Historical Pattern of Political Development in East Asia

Moderator
Yung-mau Chao, Dean of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University; President of Chinese Association of Political Science 

11:15~11:30
Coffee Break

11:30~12:55
Session I: East Asian Democracies in Global Perspective

Moderator
Marc Plattner, Editor of Journal of Democracy; Vice-President of Research and Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED); Director of International Forum for Democratic Studies

Presenters
1. Does democratic satisfaction reflect regime performance? East Asia in Comparative Perspective
Pippa Norris, McGuire Lecturer of Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2. Regime Performance and Democratic Legitimacy: East Asia in Global Perspective
Chong-min Park, Professor, Public Administration, Korea University
Yu-tzung Chang, Associate Professor, Political Science, National Taiwan University

Discussants
1. Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor, School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
2. Benjamin Reilly, Professor of Policy and Governance, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University


Q&A

 
13:00~14:15
Lunch

14:20~16:10
Session II: Culture, Institution and Democratic Consolidation


Moderator
Yeh-lih Wang, Chair, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

Presenters
1. Confucianism and Democratic Conceptions in East Asia
Doh C. Shin, Jack W. Peltason Scholar in Residence, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California-Irvine
2. Executive Structure and Democratic Governance in East Asia
Jih-wen Lin, Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica
3. Political Parties, Electoral Systems and Democratic Governance
Benjamin Reilly, Professor of Policy and Governance, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University

Discussants
1. Pippa Norris, McGuire Lecturer of Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2. Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government; Director of Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Q&A 
16:10~16:25
Coffee Break

16:25~17:50
Session III: Political Economy of East Asia Democracy

Moderator
Chyuan-jenq Shiau, Professor, Political Science, National Taiwan University

Presenters
1. From Developmental State to Welfare State in East Asia: Taiwan, South Korea and Japan
Joseph Wong, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto; Director, University of Toronto’s Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs

2. International Dimensions of Democratic Development in East Asia: Strategic Rivalry, Regionalism and Globalization
Tun-jen Cheng, Class of 1935 Professor, Government, The College of Williams and Mary’s

Discussants:
1. Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor, School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
2. Cheng-tian Kuo, Chairperson and Professor, Political Science, National Chengchi University

Q&A

18:00
Conference Adjourns


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Thursday, August 25
 
09:00~09:30
Registration

09:30~10:55
Session IV: Northeast vs. Southeast Asia


Moderator
Larry Diamond, Senior Advisor to International Forum for Democratic Studies and Coeditor of Journal of Democracy, National Endowment for Democracy 

Presenters
1. Power Rotation and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea and Taiwan
Hyug Baeg Im, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Korea University
Yun-han Chu, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

2. Democracy Challenged in Thailand
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Director, Institute of Security and International Studies; Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Chulalongkorn University

Discussants
1. Tun-jen Cheng, Class of 1935 Professor, Government, The College of Williams and Mary’s
2. Edward Aspinall, Senior Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University


Q&A


10:55~11:10
Coffee Break

11:10~12:35
Session V: Democracies vs. the Rest in East Asia

Moderator
Diego Abente Brun, Deputy Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy

Presenters
1. Losing Leviathan? Malaysian and Singaporean Democratization in Northeast Asian Perspective
Dan Slater, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

2. The Future of Autocracies in Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
Martin Gainsborough, Reader in Development Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol

Discussants:
1. Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Singapore Management University.
2. Edward Aspinall, Senior Fellow, Department of Political & Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University


Q&A

12:40~13:55
Lunch

14:00~15:25
Session VI: Democracy in China


Moderator
Ming-tong Chen, Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University

Presenters
1. Taiwan and China’s Democratic Future
Yun-han Chu, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

2. The Political Future of the Communist Regime in China: Resiliency vs. Fragility
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government; Director of Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Discussants:
1. Szue-chin Philip Hsu, Associate Professor, Political Science, National Taiwan University
2. Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Chairperson and Professor, Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University


Q&A

15:25~15:40
Coffee Break

15:40~17:20
Closing Roundtable

Moderator
Marc Plattner, Vice-President of Research and Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy; Director of International Forum for Democratic Studies

Panelists:
Yun-han Chu, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University
Larry Diamond, Senior Advisor to International Forum for Democratic Studies and Coeditor of Journal of Democracy, National Endowment for Democracy
Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Doh C. Shin, Jack W. Peltason Scholar in Residence, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California-Irvine

17:30
Conference Concludes


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Jean-Pierre Cabestan


Jean-Pierre Cabestan is head and professor, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also associate researcher at the Asia Centre, Paris. Before August 2007, he was Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and was attached to Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris 1. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. In 1990-1991, he was lecturer at the Politics Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies. His most recent publications include Le système politique de la Chine populaire (Paris, PUF, 1994); Taiwan-Chine populaire: l'impossible réunification (Paris, Ifri-Dunod, 1995); Le système politique de Taiwan (Paris, PUF, 1999); Chine-Taiwan: la guerre est-elle concevable? La sécurité extérieure de Taiwan face à la menace de la Chine populaire, Paris, Economica, 2003; (with Benoît Vermander) La Chine et ses frontières. La confrontation Chine-Taiwan, Paris, Presses des Sciences Po, 2005 (translated into Chinese and published in a special issue of the Journal Renlai, Taipei, in January 2007; (with Sébastien Colin, Isabelle Facon and Michal Meidan) La Chine et la Russie: entre convergences and méfiance, Paris, Unicomm, 2008; (with Tanguy Le Pesant) L’esprit de défense de Taiwan face à la Chine: la jeunesse taiwanaise face à la tentation de la Chine, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2009 ; and La politique internationale de la Chine. Entre intégration et volonté de puissance, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010. He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China's political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Bridget Welsh


Welsh, Bridget is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Singapore Management University where she teaches courses on comparative politics, parties, political participation gender and international relations. She received her doctorate from the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, her MA from Columbia University, language training (FALCON) from Cornell University and BA from Colgate University.  She has edited Reflections: The Mahathir Years; Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia: Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore (2009); and Transition or Transformation: Abdullah Badawi's Tenure (2011 forthcoming). Democracy Takeoff: Reflections on the BJ Habibie Period is also forthcoming. In June 2011 she published on Singapore’s 2011 General Election in Voting in Change (edited by Kevin YL Tan and Terence Lee) and helped coordinate the Merdeka Center poll during the campaign. She has also written numerous articles on a range of issues from human rights in Southeast Asia, Islamic Parties and Democracy to US-Southeast Asia relations and gender. She is a contributor to Malaysiakini, the leading news website in Malaysia.