Special guests: – Dr. Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham: Director of REPRESENT) Topic: Parliamentary Fragmentation, (Semi-) Presidential Republics and Historical Legacies: On the Causes of Party System Instability in Asia
– Dr. Dimitry V. Kochenov [Central European University Democracy Institute (Budapest); CEU Dept. of Legal Studies (Vienna); Malyi Fellow, The University of Chicago Law School)] Topic: The Smoke of Constitutionalism on the Altar of Supremacy: Dialogical Rule of Law in the Hands of the Court of Justice
– Dr. Sarah Ganty (Ghent University: J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School) Topic: Democracy and Merit: a Toxic Relationship
Miderator & organiser: Dr. Chien-Huei Wu, IEAS Academia Sinica & ICI, NCCU
Discussants: Dr. Yen-Pin Su, Dept. of Political Schience & Dr. Vivianne Y.-C. Weng, Dept. of Political Science & ICI, NCCU