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International Forum >> The Democracy Forum for East Asia>> "Political Finance and Democracy in East Asia: The Use and Abuse of Money in Campaigns and Elections"
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Introduction
Session I: Political Finance in a Comparative Context Session II: Political Finance in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and India Session III: Political Finance in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan Session IV: Regulating Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Session V: Disclosure, Transparency, and Institutional Enforcement Session VI: Making Political Finance More Democratic: Developing an Agenda for Reform Agenda Participants |
Introduction The conference on "Political Finance and Democracy in East Asia: The Use and Abuse of Money in Campaigns and Elections," held in Seoul, Korea on June 28-30, 2001, was the fifth meeting (and fourth working conference) sponsored by the Democracy Forum for East Asia. A collaborative program of the Sejong Institute and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Democracy Forum was established following an agreement between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and U.S. President Bill Clinton in November 1998 to promote joint nongovernmental efforts to encourage democracy in East Asia. The inaugural conference was held in July 1999 in Seoul; followed by three working conferences in Seoul and Bangkok in 1999 and 2000. The three-day meeting in Seoul on "Political Finance and Democracy in East Asia" was formally divided into two parts, each of which had three half-day panels. The first part featured academic presentations on political parties and campaign finance in East Asia; the second part featured presentations by leaders of political parties and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government officials, and members of parliaments on these same topics. Despite this formal division, almost all attendees participated in the entire event. Baek Jong-Chun, president of the Sejong Institute, and Carl Gershman, president of the NED, welcomed participants from India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand, as well as from Canada, Colombia, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, at the start of the deliberations. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, "Political Finance and Democracy: Major Challenges for Reformers and Scholars" Eduardo Posada-Carbó, "Democracy, Parties and Political Finance in Latin America" Clyde Wilcox, "Transparency and Disclosure in Political Finance: Lessons from the United States" Joel Rocamora, "Campaign Finance and the Future of Philippine Political Parties" E. Sridharan, "Political Finance in India: A study of the 1999 general elections" Hoon Jaung & Jongryn Mo, "Political Finance and Democracy: Korea" Masaru Kohno, "Political Financing in Japan: Regulations, Reality, and Prospect for Future Reform" |
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