Arnold A. Saltzman Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracies at Columbia University (fwd)

[Kevin Eric Laney]

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> The Arnold A. Saltzman Center for the Study of Constitutional
> Democracies at Columbia University invites your participation in
> several programs during the 1998 Spring Term.  The Center, funded by
> a generous gift from Ambassador Saltzman, supports scholarship on
> political, economic, and social problems of the emerging democracies.
> Its primary task will be to bring together researchers from a broad range
> of disciplinary and area study specialties to study key issues of
> constitutionalism, challenges of economic restructuring, and dilemmas
> of distributive and retributive justice.  This new venture in the
> comparative study of emerging democracies in East Asia, Africa, Latin
> America, and the postsocialist settings of Eastern Europe and the former
> Soviet Union will be directed by David Stark, who joined the Columbia
> faculty this year in the Department of Sociology and the School of
> International and Public Affairs.
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> The innaugural lecture for the Saltzman Center will be presented by
> Professor Guillermo O'Donnell on Thursday, February 5, 1998 at 4 pm,
> International Affairs Building, Room 1501.
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> The Center will sponsor two ongoing seminar series during the Spring
> Term as well as occasional lectures.  If you would like to receive
> announcements about these and other events at the Center, please follow
> the instructions at the bottom of this message to make sure that you are
> on the list server for our internet mailings.
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> Seminar series:
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> I. The Saltzman Center will organize a seminar series on "The New
> Democracies and the Non Democracies."   What implications for the
> study of transitions to democracy are posed by those societies that
> passed through the period of the great wave of democratization with
> authoritarian institutions still in place?   What experiences in the
> emerging democracies are relevant for those who study political and
> economic reform (or resistance to such) in China, Cuba, North Korea,
> and North Africa?   Our task will be to avoid a simple "lessons of the
> new democracies for the non democracies."  Instead, the continuation of
> (or return to) authoritarian rule in parts of East Asia, South Asia,
> Africa, and the Balkans suggests that our concepts for studying
> democratization might not be consolidated.
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> Invited speakers include:
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> Michael McFaul, Stanford University  (Russia)
> Lisa Anderson, Dean of SIPA (Algeria)
> Laszlo Bruszt, Central European University (Hungary and the Czech Republic)
> Susan Eckstein, Boston University (Cuba), co-sponsored by the Institute of
> Latin American and Iberian Studies
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> II.  The Saltzman Center will also organize a seminar series on
> "Business Groups and Governance."   Recent studies in organizational
> analysis and legal theory are questioning the old certainties that "the
> firm" is the key unit of economic action.  In place of the isolated,
> bounded firm, this scholarship points to networks of firms -- ranging
> from dense informal ties among small and medium enterprises in the
> dynamic industrial districts, to more formalized franchising
> arrangements, to the cohesive structures of the Japanese keiretsu, South
> Korean chaebol, and Latin American groupos economicos (as well as
> less institutionalized inter-organizational networks in Eastern Europe
> and Financial-Industrial Groups in Russia).  These economic entities
> pose challenges for how we think about governance in modern
> capitalisms especially where emerging democracies interact with
> corporate networks in the process of economic restructuring.
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> Invited speakers include:
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> Barry Ickes, Pennsylvania State University (Russian Financial-Industrial
>      Groups)
> Eun Mee Kim, University of Southern California (Korean chaebol)
> John Zysman, University of California-Berkeley (Production networks in
>      East Asia and Eastern Europe)

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