Alasdair Bowie, George Washington University
| DATE: | Thursday, October 6, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies |
Over the past five years, Vietnam and Indonesia have seen unprecedented transfers of regulatory power over private sector economic activity to provincial and district level governments. This talk will focus on the effects of these changes on economic governance at sub-national levels, and the interplay of economic governance and "renovation" in Vietnam and democratization in Indonesia. Alasdair Bowie has spent a year in Vietnam and Indonesia researching these issues at nine main study sites, and a further year writing and speaking about his findings as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Alasdair Bowie is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. A 2004-2005 Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Dr. Bowie's research project is: "Power to the People? Implications of Decentralizing Government for Economic Governance in Vietnam and Indonesia." Alasdair Bowie received his Ph.D in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 1989.
