[ADRN Working Paper] The State of Vertical Accountability in Taiwan (Interim Report)
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Chin-en Wu | 2024-09-12
Chin-en Wu, an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, explains that Taiwan has sustained a relatively robust vertical accountability structure, due to universal suffrage, automatic voter registration, and consistently fair elections. However, Wu highlights challenges including a lack of debate on key socioeconomic issues, external interference from Mainland China through disinformation, and government actions that threaten electoral fairness. He also examines the rise of national referendums, which increase citizen political participation but hinder well-informed decision-making by forcing binary choices with limited room for compromise.
[ADRN Working Paper] Electoral Accountability in India: Emerging Discourse in the Historical Context (Interim Report)
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Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay | 2024-09-06
Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay, Director of Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), examines key challenges to electoral accountability in India, focusing on issues such as the low levels of female and youth participation, as well as inadequate party funding and election expenditure laws, which contribute to political corruption. Recent initiatives to curb the financial influence on the electoral process include the Supreme Court’s annulment of the Electoral Bond Scheme and the proposal to hold national and local elections simultaneously to reduce election expenses. The paper concludes that transparent political funding mechanisms and greater responsibility from political parties in engaging diverse social groups are crucial to preserving India’s democratic credibility and electoral integrity.
[ADRN Working Paper] Vertical Accountability in the Case of South Korea (Interim Report)
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Sunkyoung Park | 2024-08-23
Sunkyoung Park, Professor at Korea University, examines the mechanisms of vertical accountability in South Korea, emphasizing the alignment between formal institutions and their actual performance. Park’s analysis reveals that South Korea’s electoral accountability mechanism functions effectively, with no significant discrepancies between legal frameworks and practical outcomes. However, the study identifies areas for improvement in the democratic process, such as addressing scandals involving the intelligence service’s attempts to manipulate public opinion and the electoral management body’s susceptibility to political pressure.

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[ADRN Issue Briefing] State Brutality, People’s Uprising, and Government Downfall: The Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh
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[ADRN Issue Briefing] State Brutality, People’s Uprising, and Government Downfall: The Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh
Md. Ziaul Karim | 2024-08-16
Introduction   It was the worst example of state brutality against unarmed students that happened in Bangladesh from July 15 to August 5, 2024. Over 300 people, including 32 children, were killed by the state-forces and ruling-party frontiers together (Ethirajan and Ritchie 2024; Mishra 2024). Additionally, more than ...
[EAI Issue Briefing] The 4IR and the Future of the North Korean Police State
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[EAI Issue Briefing] The 4IR and the Future of the North Korean Police State
Ken Gause | 2024-07-09
* Note: This paper does not represent original research, but attempts to highlight existing research into the Fourth Industrial Revolution and North Korea’s embrace of high technology. See reference list for the sources on which this paper is based.   The term Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has gained widesp...
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[EAI-NDI Capstone Roundtable] ROK-U.S. Parliamentary Democratic Partnership (Session 2)
| 2024-05-16
Over the past eighteen months, EAI has been actively engaging with the members of the ROK National Assembly, scholars, and civil society stakeholders to enhance domestic and regional collaboration for advancing democratic norms and values. Reflecting on our progress, this culminating capstone event sought to gather parliamentari...

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