Date and Time
October 23, 2008 - October 24, 2008

Availability
By Invitation Only

If South Korea was one of several nation states to ride the “third wave of democracy,” it is arguably one of the smoothest and most successful cases of democratic transition.

Beginning in the 1970s, democracy spread through southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia (Huntington 1991). Roughly fifty percent of all democratic nations today made their transition to democracy between the early 1970s and late 1990s (Haynes 2001). The high count of democratic transitions during the third wave, however, does not obfuscate problems associated with the consolidation of democratic institutions. Accordingly, there has been a shift in scholarly focus towards assessing the challenges new democracies face in establishing the institutional structures that sustain democratic polities (Haynes 2001; Pridham 2007; Mainwaring et. al. 1992; Simutanyi 2002).

Location
Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., 3rd floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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FSI Contact
Heather Ahn