International Workshop
Collaboration of the IPSA Research Committee “Quality
of Democracy” and the GPSA Research Group
“Democracy Studies”
Measuring Democracy
(Photo by HeyThereSpaceman, cc licensed)
The Workshop is funded by grants from Fritz Thyssen
Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent
Research
Program
Sunday
September 29
Arrival of the participants
18.00-18.30
Welcome and introduction
Marianne Kneuer, Chair Research Group “Democracy Studies”, GPSA;
Vice-Chair Research Committee 34 “Quality of Democracy”, IPSA,
University of Hildesheim, Germany
José Alvaro Moisés, Chair Research Committee 34 “Quality of
Democracy”, IPSA, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
18.30-19.45
20.00
Monday
September 30
9.00-11.00
Brigitte Geißel, Host, University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Key note
Gerardo Munck
University of Southern California, USA
Concepts of democracy as a basis
for measuring democracy
Dinner
Session 1: Quantitative Approaches:
Indices – new approaches
Chair: Marianne Kneuer, University of Hildesheim
Wolfgang Merkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin/Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany
Democracy Barometer (NCCR)
Svend-Erik Skaaning, University of Aarhus, Denmark and
Staffan Lindberg, University of Florida, USA
Varietes of Democracy
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.30
12.30-14.00
14.00-16.00
Discussant: Jorgen Moeller, University of Aarhus
Coffee break
Session 1 continued: Quantitative Approaches: Indices
Chair: António Costa Pinto, University of Lisbon
Martin Brusis, University of München (LMU), Germany
Sustainable Governance Index
Discussant: Dieter Fuchs, University of Stuttgart
Lunch break
Session 2: Quantitative Approaches:
Surveys, subnational level
Chair: António Costa Pinto, University of Lisbon
Marta Lagos, Latinobarómetro, Corporación Latinobarometro, Providencia,
Chile
Latinobarómetro
Jorge Arias, Polilat, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Measuring the subnational level
16.00-16.30
Discussant: Hans-Joachim Lauth, University of Würzburg
Coffee break
16.30-18.30
Session 3: Mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches
Chair: Daniela Piana, Bologna
Leonardo Morlino, University of Rome, Italy
Mixing quantitative and qualitative analyses: What qualities of democracy
in Latin America?
Michael Stoiber, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
A contextualized measurement of democratic quality
19.30
Tuesday
October 1
9.00-11.00
Discussant: Thomas Richter, GIGA Hamburg
Dinner
Session 4: Qualitative Approaches
Chair: Brigitte Geißel, Frankfurt/Main
Keboitse Machangana, International Institute for Democracy and
Electoral Assistance – Stockholm, Sweden
State of Democracy Index
Hans-Joachim Lauth, Universität Würzburg, Germany
The Matrix of Democracy - One Proposal and several critical Reflections
11.00-11.30
11.30-13.30
Discussant: Daniela Piana, University of Bologna
Coffee break
Session 5: Looking at the output
Chair: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Würzburg
David F. J. Campbell, Klagenfurt, Austria
Sustainable development
Anja Mihr, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Transitional Justice
13.30-14.30
14.30-17.00
Discussant: Britta Weiffen, University of Konstanz
Lunch break
Session 6: Looking at citizens and participation
Chair: Marianne Kneuer, Hildesheim
Brigitte Geißel, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and
Quinton Mayne, Harvard, USA
Looking at the citizen – a qualitative approach
Dieter Fuchs, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Looking at the citizen – a quantitative approach
André Bächtiger, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Measuring deliberation
17.00-17.30
Discussant: Claudia Wiesner, University of Jyväskylä/University of Marburg
Coffee break
17.30-18.30
Roundtable and Concluding Remarks
18.30
End of the Workshop
Conference venue:
University of Frankfurt/Main
Campus Westend/Grüneburgplatz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Room 1.314 (Eisenhower Room)
Host and organization in Frankfurt:
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel - [email protected]
Tel.: +49 69 798-36514
Organization:
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer – [email protected]
Aileen Bolling – [email protected]
University of Hildesheim
Marienburger Platz 22
31141 Hildesheim
Tel.: +5121-883500 or 883512 (Kneuer); +5121-883223 (Bolling)