DEMOCRATIZATION SEMINAR
1999-2000
January 6, 2000
Philippe Schmitter
European University Institute
Stanford University
“The State of the Debate on Democratic Consolidation”
Comments by Larry Diamond and Terry Karl, Stanford University
January 27, 2000
Torcuato Di Tella
Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
"Argentina becoming 'Normal': The 1999 General Elections"
Paper available here
February 15, 2000
Michael Oksenberg
Senior Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; Professor of Political Science, Stanford;
"China's Political System: Challenges of the Twenty-first Century".
Paper available here
March 9, 2000.
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Assistant Professor at UCLA and a Visiting Professor in Stanford's Political Science Department.
Beatriz Magaloni
Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at Stanford and was the director of the political science program at ITAM in Mexico City
"From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Unifinished Transition in
Mexico"
Paper available: text and tables
March 30, 2000
Fareed Zakaria
Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs
"The Rise of Illiberal Democracy"
April 12, 2000
Daniel Fung
Former Solicitor General of Hong Kong
"Legitimacy, Democracy and the Rule of Law: Greater China's Structural
Transformation in the 21st Century"
April 18, 2000
Donald K. Emmerson
Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
"Back to the Future? Democracy's Second Chance in Indonesia"
May 2, 2000
Ameen Jan
Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy (New York) from 1994-1999, currently in the MBA program at Stanford.
"Pakistan's Failing State"
Comments by Tom Simons, former United States Ambassador to Pakistan
Paper available here
May 25, 2000
Jane Jaquette
Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics at Occidental College
"Women, Civil Society and Democratization"
Thought piece available here