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The global spread of competitive elections has made democratic governance a major concern. Political scientists have elaborated quantitative indicators of democracy to explain why some governments are democratic and others are not. Policymakers have concentrated on governance, a broader term that includes whether a regime is constrained by the rule of law and provides stable and effective administration. The European Union's Copenhagen criteria are distinctive in evaluating applicant countries in terms of governance and democratic status. As aspiring EU members now include Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine and Macedonia, evaluating such applicants is far more problematic than evaluating an application from Finland or Sweden.
The talk will present bottom up evidence from the New Europe Barometer, public opinion surveys showing how people who live in would-be EU member states evaluate their system of governance on the Copenhagen criteria. It will also compare the evaluation of applicant countries with those of citizens in countries admitted in the 2004 enlargement round in order to see whether applicant countries reach or are below the minimum standard of governance that the EU has already accepted. The analysis concludes with recommendations to bring the state back in to democratization studies, and to tighten up EU procedures for securing pre- and post-entry improvements in the governance of applicant and member states.
Professor Richard Rose is founder of the New Europe Barometer (NEB) surveys monitoring mass response to transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and successor states of the Soviet Union. Since 1991 the NEB has conducted more than 110 nationwide surveys in 16 post-Communist countries, half of which are now members of the European Union. Results have been published in half a dozen books, including Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime and Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies; in dozens of journal articles and research reports and on three websites: www.abdn.ac.uk/cspp; www.RussiaVotes.org; and www.BalticVoices.org. Rose is director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen; a consultant to intergovernmental organizations such as the World Bank, and to NGOs like Transparency International and Freedom House, and holds honours from various academic institutions in the United States and Europe.
Information on participating / attending:
Please reply by November 29, 2006 to Karolina May-Chu: may-chu@wz-berlin.de
Date:
12/04/2006 17:00 - 12/04/2006 20:00
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Law, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
11/10/2006
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Abteilung Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event18767
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