Measuring Democracy Workshop
Monday, January 10, 2011
Hesburgh Center
Participants
Michael Coppedge, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
John Gerring, Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Staffan Lindberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida (on leave)
Currently serving as Research Director, World Values Survey Project, Sweden; Research Fellow, Quality of Government Institute; and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Jan Teorrell, Associate Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
Currently a Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair of Political Science, University of Florida
Jeffrey Stanton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Kelly McMann, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Pamela Paxton, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Svend-Erik Skaaning, Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Allen Hicken, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Kroenig, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Agenda
9:00-9:30
Plenary Session
Welcome, introductions, instructions, logistics and administrative matters.
Overview of what needs to be done between now and September.
How to get the most out of the small group sessions.
C103 Hesburgh Center
9:30-10:30
Session I
Social Equality
Schneider via Skype
Gerring
Paxton
McMann
C104 Hesburgh Center
Civil Society
Bernhard
Coppedge
Skaaning
+Tiago Fernandes
C105 Hesburgh Center
Parties & Party Systems
Hicken
Lindberg
Altman via Skype
C102 Hesburgh Center
Executives
Teorell
Fish
Kroenig
Staton
C103 Hesburgh Center
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-noon
Session II
Direct Democracy
Altman via Skype
Coppedge
Bernhard
C104 Hesburgh Center
Elections
Lindberg
Hicken
Skaaning
C105 Hesburgh Center
Sovereignty
Bernhard
Gerring
Paxton
McMann
Schneider via Skype
Formal & Descriptive Representation
Paxton
Gerring
McMann
Schneider via Skype
C102 Hesburgh Center
Judiciary
Staton
Teorell
Fish
Kroenig
C103 Hesburgh Center
noon-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:45
Session III
Media
Semetko via Skype
Coppedge
Bernhard
C104 Hesburgh Center
Subnational Government
McMann
Gerring
Paxton
C105 Hesburgh Center
Civil Liberties
Skaaning
Lindberg
Hicken
C102 Hesburgh Center
Legislatures
Fish
Kroenig
Teorell
Staton
Altman via Skype
C103 Hesburgh Center
2:45-3:30
Break and preparation of presentations to plenary session
3:30-5:30
Plenary Session
Reports on each category:
What has been accomplished
Unresolved issues
Strategies for aggregation
