Author: Stephan Haggard | Journal of Democracy

Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies and director of the Korea-Pacific Program in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.

Articles by Stephan Haggard:

October 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4

The Anatomy of Democratic Backsliding

Can we recognize the symptoms of backsliding before it’s too late? Though the signals are sometimes faint, a new study of sixteen cases around the world reveals key dynamics common to all.

October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4

The Challenges of Consolidation

Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2

Taiwan in Transition

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

The Politics of the Asian Financial Crisis

Stephan Haggard

The political dimensions of the 1997-99 Asian financial crisis have been largely ignored. Yet political factors are crucial to understanding the crisis and the differing ways in which the democracies and authoritarian regimes in the region responded to it.

October 2009, Volume 20, Issue 4

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (II): How Regions Differ

Both Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe have undergone significant democratization in recent years. Yet each region retains a distinctive approach, grounded in its own history, to common problems of social welfare and inequality.

Books:

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

This book addresses such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality.

Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America

Laurence Whitehead

"Emerging Market Democracies provides useful insights into topics that connect market economies to various nations' politics, especially efforts at democratization, and compares and contrasts two important regions of the world in their quests for modernization."—John F. Copper, Asian Affairs