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Keynote Speaker

Ian McAllister is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The Australian National University, and from 1997 until 2004 was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. He has previously held chairs at the University of New South Wales and the University of Manchester and has held other academic appointments at The Queen's University of Belfast and the University of Strathclyde. He was President of the British Politics Group 2001-2002, has edited the Australian Journal of Political Science since 2004, and was chair of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project from 2003 to 2008. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Roundtable Participants

André Blais is professor in the department  of political science at the Université de Montréal, a research fellow with the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ) and with the Center for Interuniversity Research Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is past president of the Canadian Political Science Association and a co-investigator of the Canadian Election Study since 1988. His research interests are elections, electoral systems, voting, turnout, public opinion and methodology.

Yun-han Chu (朱雲漢) is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Prof. Chu received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1987. He serves concurrently as president of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is also the first-ever Asia-based member of the Council of the APSA. He specializes in democratization, politics of greater China, and East Asian political economy. He has been the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, which covers seventeen countries in the region since 2004. He is an associate editor of Journal of East Asian Studies and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, International Studies Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, China Review and China Perspective. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of twelve books. Among his publications are Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Taipei: Institute for National Policy Research, 1992); Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); China Under Jiang Zemin (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000); How East Asians View Democracy  (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Party Politics In East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development (Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform Era (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010); and Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: Experience and Inspiration (in Chinese) (Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2012).

Larry Diamond is director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on democratic development. He is also founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and senior advisor to the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also advised the U.S. Agency for International Development (whose 2002 report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest, he coauthored), and other U.S. and international agencies dealing with governance and development. His book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Times Books, 2008) explores the sources of global democratic progress and stress and the future prospects of democracy. In 2007, he was named Teacher of the Year by the Associated Students of Stanford University for teaching that “transcends political and ideological barriers.” That year he also received Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Award for “his inspired teaching and commitment to undergraduate education” and “for the example he sets as a scholar and public intellectual.” During the first three months of 2004, Diamond served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Among his other published works are Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999), Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989).

Chi Huang (黃紀) is University Chair Professor, Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University, and a Research Fellow at the Election Study Center, NCCU. In addition, Prof. Huang is currently Coordinator of the Planning Committee of the Taiwan Election and Democratization Study (TEDS).  His areas of expertise include comparative politics, political institutions, parties and elections, voting behavior, democratization theory, research design and methodology. He has published extensively on elections in Taiwan in both English and Chinese, and has also edited a number of books, most recently The 2008 Presidential Election in Taiwan (2009; with Lu-huei Chen and Ching-hsin Yu) and The Consequences of Electoral System Change: Methodological Perspectives (2008; with Ching-hsin Yu). Prof. Huang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science, Indiana University.