Panel: "New Party Politics of East Asian Democracies"

Joan Cho
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University

Aram Hur
Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Koichi Nakano
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations; Professor of Political Science, Sophia University

Moderator: Daniel Ziblatt
Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University 

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Harvard Korea Institute; and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Additional Resources

1. Cho, Joan E. 2024. Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. (Chapter 7).
2. Hur, Aram and Andrew Yeo. 2024. “Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia.” Comparative Political Studies 57(4): 584-612.
3. Hur, Aram. 2022. “Uses and Misuses of Nationalism in the Democratic Politics of Korea.” In South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization, ed. Gi-Wook Shin and Ho-Ki Kim. Stanford, CA: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
4. Nakano, Koichi. 2020. "Neoliberal Turn of State Conservatism in Japan: From Bureaucratic to Corporatist Authoritarian Legality” in Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition, eds. Weitseng Chen and Hualing Fu. Cambridge University Press.
5. Nakano, Koichi. 2021.  "Crisis of Constitutional Democracy and the New Civic Activism in Japan: From SEALDs to Civil Alliance” in Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism, eds. Helen Hardacre et al. Lexington Books.