IPSAS Lecture Series

2008-01-24

Speaker : Assistant Research Fellow Chuan-Hsien Chang, IPSAS

Topic : Politics of Defection: Reinvestigating the Influence of Electoral Systems over Party Switching

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2008-01-17

Speaker : Assistant Research Fellow Szu-chien Hsu, IPSAS；Discussant：Prof. Chien-min Chao (IPSAS Visiting Scholar)

Topic : Will “Intra-Party Democracy” Democratize China: The Case of Direct Election Experiment for Township Party Secretary

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-12-21

Speaker : Dr. Gordon C. K .Cheung ( Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University)

Topic : The Politics of Culture and Identities: A Study of Liminal Citizenship of Greater China.

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-12-20

Speaker : Prof. Grzegorz Ekiert ( Professor, Dept. of Government, Harvard University)

Topic : Democratization and Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe: Assessing the Relationship

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-11-29

Speaker : Assistant Research Fellow Fang-Yi Chiou, IPSAS

Topic : A Theoretical Framework for Lawmaking

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-11-08

Speaker : Prof. Gardner Bovingdon (Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University)

Topic : Naming and claiming in China and Taiwan: the role of representation in modern politics.

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-11-01

Speaker : Yun-han Chu( IPSAS Distinguished Research Fellow), Min-hua Huang( Assistant professor, Dept. of Political Science, National Taiwan University) and Yutzung Chang( Assistant professor, Dept. of Political Science, National Taiwan University)

Topic : Identifying Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: A Multi-level Analysis

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-10-18

Speaker : Prof. Helmut Wagner (Department of Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin)

Topic : Reflections on Semi-Presidentialism: What the Weimar Republic Can Teach Us

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

2007-09-20

Speaker : Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)

Topic : The Developmental State and the Knowledge Economy:Towards a New Framework

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 3:30

2007-09-11

Speaker : Prof. Mitsutoyo Matsumoto (Associate Professor, Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies)

Topic : Populism and Democratic Politics in Taiwan

Place : IPSAS Conference Room B (5th floor, North, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences)

Time : pm 2:00

Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica