Democracy in Asia: Building Sustainable Institutions and Practices in Turbulent Times
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 | 2:00PM - 6:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
This symposium brough together a distinguished group of scholars whose work either frames contemporary global assessments of the state of democracy around the world or focuses attention directly on the political struggle now underway between democracy and authoritarianism across the Asian region. Its purpose was to bring current comparative research on the evolution of democratic institutions and practices of government into dialogue with cutting-edge conceptual work on democracy and democratization. The participants together addressed the challenge of maintaining domestic and international stability when countries are facing competing political imperatives generated both by globalizing capitalism and by the contemporary diffusion of systemic power.
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
2:10-2:15PM
Welcoming Remarks RANDALL HANSEN Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
2:15-4:00PM
Panel I LUCAN AHMAD WAY Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Are we actually in the Midst of a Democratic Recession? SEVA GUNITSKY Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Great Powers and the Future of Democracy LYNETTE ONG Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute, University of Toronto Studying "China in the World" in 2019 PHILLIP LIPSCY Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Democracy, Financial Crises, and Economic Volatility MAIKO ICHIHARA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and the School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Understanding Japan’s International Democracy Assistance Policy Chair: LOUIS PAULY Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science Discussant: DAVID A. WELCH University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs
4:00-4:15PM
Panel II YUSUKE TAKAGI Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan Democracy in Asia: The Case of the Philippines JOSEPH WONG Professor, Department of Political Science Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience, University of Toronto Japan: Asia’s First Unlikely Democracy DAN SLATER Professor of Political Science Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), University of Michigan Indonesia: Asia’s Newest Unlikely Democracy SANG-YOUNG RHYU Professor, Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Upgrading Democracy in Korea: Resilient Consolidation and Complex Challenges DIANA FU Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto State Control in China under Xi Jinping Chair: LOUIS PAULY Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science Discussant: DAVID A. WELCH University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs
5:55-6:00PM
Closing Remarks TAKAKO ITO Consul General of Japan in Toronto
6:00-7:00PM
Reception
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