Conference Participants
The 2012 International Conference on New Perspectives in East Asian Studies
Chan, Joseph (陳祖為) is Head of Department and Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong. Chan was educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (BSocSc), the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc), and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He teaches political theory and researches in the areas of Confucian political philosophy, contemporary liberalism and perfectionism, human rights, and civil society. His articles have appeared in various journals, including China Quarterly, Ethics, History of Political Thought, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Democracy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Philosophy East and West. He serves on the editorial boards of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, and Representation. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 1999-2000, head of the department of Politics and Public Administration from 2002-2004, and founding director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences from 2003-2009. He has completed a book manuscript titled Confucian Political Philosophy: A Critical Reconstruction for Modern Times.
Chang, Yu-tzung (張佑宗) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. His teaching areas are the Third Wave of Democratization, Positive Political Theory, Election Studies, Political and Economic Development in Latin America. He received his doctorate in Political Science from National Chengchi University. He is currently co-principal investigator and program manager of Asian Barometer at National Taiwan University. He has published articles examining democratization, traditionalism, democracy and authoritarianism values, election studies, and identity politics in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Recent co-authored papers include “Rational Choices and Irrational Results: the DPP’s Institutional Choice in Taiwan’s Electoral Reform” which appeared in Issues and Studies, “Identifying Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: A Multilevel Analysis” in Electoral Studies, and “Procedural Quality Only? Taiwanese Democracy Reconsidered” in International Political Science Review.
Chao, Yung-mau (趙永茂) is currently Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. His research interests include local government and politics, British politics and society, intergovernmental relations and local governance. In addition to his seminal work Change and Special Characteristics of Local Government in Taiwan (1997), Prof. Chao has written numerous books and articles in Chinese and English, most notably on local government and elections in Taiwan. His recent co-authored publications include “The Construction of Polycentric Urban Governance: Reflections on the Problems of Asymmetrical Urban Development and Democratic Deficit” in Taiwanese Journal of Political Science (2011), and “An Analysis of the Institutional Structure of Urban Disaster Prevention Systems across the Strait,” which appeared in Journal of Public Affairs Review (2011).
Chu, Yun-han (朱雲漢) is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Prof. Chu received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1987. He serves concurrently as president of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is also the first-ever Asia-based member of the Council of the APSA. He specializes in democratization, politics of greater China, and East Asian political economy. He has been the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, which covers seventeen countries in the region since 2004. He is an associate editor of Journal of East Asian Studies and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, International Studies Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, China Review and China Perspective. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of twelve books. Among his publications are Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Taipei: Institute for National Policy Research, 1992); Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); China Under Jiang Zemin (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000); How East Asians View Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Party Politics In East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development (Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform Era (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010); and Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: Experience and Inspiration (in Chinese) (Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2012).
Huang, Min-hua (黃旻華) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Texas A&M University. Professor Huang received his Ph.D. (2004) from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests are in survey studies, Asian politics and multivariate statistical analysis. Before joining the Texas A&M University, Professor Huang served as an assistant professor in National Chengchi University (2004-2005) and National Taiwan University (2005-2008). He also worked for the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) and acted as the executive secretary from 2004 to 2008. Professor Huang’s publications have appeared in Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Democracy, International Review of Sociology, International Political Science review, and various Taiwanese political science journals.
Liao, Da-chi (廖達琪) is Professor of Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun-Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, an advisory board member of Mainland China Affairs Council (2011~), and a Party Review Committee member of Ministry of Interior, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (2010~). From 2004 to 2006, she served as the president of Taiwanese Political Science Association. She edited two books, American Policy in Asia Pacific Region After 9-11 (2002), and Democratization, Globalization, and the Role of Parliaments (2006, in Chinese). She also published more than 50 refereed journal articles. Now she is in charges of Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH), National Contact Point of European Union 7th Framework Program in NSYSU and has been devoting significant time to study ICT (Information and Communication technologies) in society. Currently, she is cooperating with European University Institute to set up the iVoter website (http://ivoternet.org/) as a communication platform between Taiwanese voters and legislative candidates for the 2012 election and its aftermath. She received her Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1990.
Lin, Jih-wen (林繼文) is Research Rellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and professor of political science at National Chengchi University and National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Los Angles (1996). His research interests cover game theory and comparative institutional design, and has had articles published in Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, Electoral Studies, China Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, Issues & Studies, among others. His recent publication include “A Veto Player Theory of Policy Making in Semi-Presidential Regimes: The Case of Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou Presidency” in the Journal of East Asian Studie (2011), “The Endogenous Change of Electoral System: The Case of SNTV" in Party Politics (2011) and a book chapter "The Rules of Electoral Competition and the Accountability of Semi-Presidential Governments” in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup, and Yu-Shan Wu eds, Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy (2011).
Lu, Jie (呂杰) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, American University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2009. Lu studies local governance, the political economy of institutional change, public opinion and political participation. He works extensively with standardized sampling survey data and qualitative evidence compiled following the anthropological tradition. His articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, China Quarterly, Political Communication, and the Journal of Democracy. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on his Ph.D. Thesis: Varieties of Governance: Institutional Change, Local Governance, and Rural-Urban Migration in Rural China.
Park, Chong-Min is Professor of Public Administration at Korea University and serves as Director of Survey Research Center of Institute of Governmental Studies. He has directed the Asian Barometer Survey in South Korea. His main research focuses on the role of government, democratization and civil society, quality of life and local governance. His articles have appeared in Asian Survey, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Social Indicators Research and several other journals and books. His publications include Current Issues in Korean Public Administration (in Korean), The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives, and The Crisis of Local Democracy in South Korea (in Korean).
Shaw, Carl K. Y. (蕭高彥) is a Research Fellow at Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences as well as IPSA, Academia Sinica. His research interests are in political theory and history of political thought. Dr. Shaw’s publications include articles in American Political Science Review, Issues and Studies, Politics, and many TSSCI journals. His current research projects are political theory of constitution-making and comparison of Hegel’s and Arendt’s ideas of political authority in post-revolutionary societies. He was a Fulbright Exchange Scholar (1998-1999) and wan the 1998 Research Excellence Award from the National Science Council, Taiwan.
Shin, Doh C. is Jack W. 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 most recent book entitled Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Asian Values Debate was published by Cambridge University Press early this year. Recently, he assumed the co-editorship of Springer’s book series on quality of life in Asia
Wang, Yeh-lih (王業立) is Chair of the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a BA in political science in 1981. In 1984, Wang moved to the United States to pursue post-graduate study, earning his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. He taught at Tunghai University in his native Taichung for many years before moving to National Taiwan University to serve as Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science in 2009. Wang’s main interests are electoral systems, voting behavior, local politics, and comparative politics. He has published extensively on local electoral politics in Taiwan.
Wu, Chung-li (吳重禮) is Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, and also Adjunct Professor of Political Science, National Chung Cheng University. His specializations include American politics (political institutions), urban and minority politics, electoral studies, comparative politics, and international relations. Prof. Wu's recent publications include "Does Political Empowerment Matter? African American and White Employment Allocation in Municipal Private Jobs" which appeared in the Journal of Black Studies and "Semi-Presidentialism and Divided Government in Taiwan: Public Perceptions of Government Performance" which appeared in Issues & Studies. He has also recently contributed a chapter on "Political Parties and Local Factions in Taiwan’s Electoral Politics" to the edited volume The Political System of Taiwan.
Chan, Joseph (陳祖為) is Head of Department and Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong. Chan was educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (BSocSc), the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc), and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He teaches political theory and researches in the areas of Confucian political philosophy, contemporary liberalism and perfectionism, human rights, and civil society. His articles have appeared in various journals, including China Quarterly, Ethics, History of Political Thought, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Democracy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Philosophy East and West. He serves on the editorial boards of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, and Representation. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 1999-2000, head of the department of Politics and Public Administration from 2002-2004, and founding director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences from 2003-2009. He has completed a book manuscript titled Confucian Political Philosophy: A Critical Reconstruction for Modern Times.
Chao, Yung-mau (趙永茂) is currently Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. His research interests include local government and politics, British politics and society, intergovernmental relations and local governance. In addition to his seminal work Change and Special Characteristics of Local Government in Taiwan (1997), Prof. Chao has written numerous books and articles in Chinese and English, most notably on local government and elections in Taiwan. His recent co-authored publications include “The Construction of Polycentric Urban Governance: Reflections on the Problems of Asymmetrical Urban Development and Democratic Deficit” in Taiwanese Journal of Political Science (2011), and “An Analysis of the Institutional Structure of Urban Disaster Prevention Systems across the Strait,” which appeared in Journal of Public Affairs Review (2011).
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