THURSDAY, January 8, 1998
8:45 am OPENING REMARKS
John Raisian, Director
8:55 am INTRODUCTION
Thomas Henriksen, Associate Director
9:00 am PANEL I
Transforming the Political System
Larry Diamond, Chair.
Hoon Jaung, Political Parties and Electoral Politics
Chan W. Park, Legislative Reforms and Executive-Legislative Relations
Thomas B. Gold, Discussant
10:45 am PANEL I, Continued
Larry Diamond, Chair.
Kyoung-Ryung Seong, Local Government Autonomy and Decentralization
(paper presented by Larry Diamond in Prof. Seong's absence)
David W. Brady, Discussant
1:30 pm PANEL II
Reforming Political Institutions
Chae-Jin Lee, Chair.
Young Jo Lee, President Kim Young Sam's Model of Democratic Reforms
Mun Gu Kang, The Military and Civilian Rule
Robert Scalapino, Discussant
3:15 pm PANEL III
Reforming Societal Institutions
Robert J. Myers, Chair.
Eun Mee Kim, Business Conglomerates: The Chaebol
Seung-Mock Yang, The News Media
Henry Rowen, Discussant
7:00 pm DINNER ADDRESS
Francis Fukuyama, Asian Values, Korean Values, and Democratic Consolidation



     
FRIDAY, January 9, 1998
9:00 am PANEL IV
Cultivating Democratic Citizens
Hong Yung Lee, Chair.
Doh C. Shin, The Evolution of Popular Support for Democracy
during the Kim Young Sam Regime

Sook-Jong Lee, Mass Participation in Old and New Politics
Abraham Lowenthal, Discussant
10:30 am PANEL IV, Continued
Hong Yung Lee, Chair.
Sunhyuk Kim, Civic Mobilization for Democratic Reform
Larry Diamond, Discussant
11:45 am CONCLUDING REMARKS
Thomas Henriksen

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