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Network of Democracy Research Institutes
-Democracy Research News-No. 5, April 2004Welcome to Democracy Research News, the quarterly newsletter of the Network of Democracy Research Institutes (NDRI). The Network is a membership association of institutions that conduct and publish research on democracy and democratic development. It is also one of several functional networks associated with the World Movement for Democracy (www.wmd.org). This newsletter is one means of informing democracy scholars and others worldwide about the activities of and publications produced by NDRI member institutes. The newsletter will continue to evolve as the Network grows, and we invite readers' comments and suggestions of useful features they would like to see in future issues. Additional information about the Network and profiles of all member institutes are available at www.wmd.org/ndri/ndri.html. To submit comments or to inquire about joining the Network, please write to Thomas Skladony (). Subscribing to Democracy Research News Democracy Research News is distributed exclusively by e-mail. Subscriptions are available free of charge by writing to ndri@ned.org. We encourage readers to forward this newsletter to colleagues who may wish to subscribe. If you do not wish to receive Democracy Research News, send the message "unsubscribe" to ndri@ned.org and we will remove your name promptly. Contents 1. News and Announcements 2. New Publications and Recent Events by NDRI Members 2.1 Africa 2.2 Asia and the Pacific 2.3 Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 2.4 Latin America and the Caribbean 2.5 Middle East 2.6 Advanced Democracies 1. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS NDRI Management Training Seminar and Competition: The NDRI will organize a week-long management training seminar for representatives of NDRI member institutes in September 2004 in Washington, D.C. The seminar will focus on developing the managerial and administrative capacities of research institutes by training selected staff members in such essential skills as communications and outreach, fundraising, conference planning and management, and publications (including Internet publishing). Eight to ten participants, selected on a competitive basis, will spend a week in September 2004 at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, from which they will visit numerous Washington-based research institutes for meetings with senior-level managers and administrators. Participants will also be able to attend policy conferences and to arrange individual meetings that complement the objectives of the seminar. Full details on the competition, including eligibility and application guidelines, will be sent to all NDRI member institutes in April 2004. Growth of the NDRI: In the past year the Network of Democracy Research Institutes doubled in size, growing from 24 to 48 member institutes. New members joined from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America (see below for brief profiles of the newest members), reflecting our desire to develop a truly global network dedicated to the serious study of democracy. Increased membership and growing regional clusters of members contribute toward our goal of promoting scholarly exchange and collaboration among its members. Some parts of the world (Central and Eastern Europe, for example) already have well developed regional networks of think-tanks, including many that focus on democracy and political reform. In other places, such as Latin America, the NDRI continues to seek new members. As always, readers of this newsletter are invited to suggest potential Network members by writing to skladony@ned.org. One happy consequence of the growth of the NDRI is that there is now much more news to report. With this issue, Democracy Research News moves from quarterly to bimonthly publication. We hope that readers will appreciate receiving more frequent-and more timely-reports on the publications, conferences, and research activities of this growing Network. NDRI Welcomes Seven New Members: We are pleased to welcome the following new members whose activities are reported in the appropriate geographic sections of this newsletter: o The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS, United States, www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats), a joint venture of the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and Department of Government. CDATS seeks to expand and to deepen theory, research, and teaching on the relationship between democratic governance and the third sector. The Center's activities include a visiting faculty fellowship, a speaker series, and the first U.S. doctoral program in political science with a concentration on third sector studies. o The Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia, www.carnegie.ru), an independent policy research institute affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace of Washington, D.C. The Center employs a staff of leading Russian social scientists who study domestic and foreign policy, as well as the critical issues surrounding Russia, Eurasia, and the international community. It publishes numerous books and reports in Russian and English, including Pro et Contra, a quarterly Russian-language policy journal. o The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL, United States, http://cddrl.stanford.edu), a newly launched research institute affiliated with Stanford University's Institute for International Studies that seeks to assist developing countries and transitioning societies in the design and implementation of policies to foster democracy, to promote balanced and sustainable growth, and to advance the rule of law. The Center's research focuses on four areas: democracy, economic performance, sovereignty, and the rule of law. It organizes workshops and conferences, publishes working papers and other studies, and recently launched a fellowship program. o The Interuniversity Centre for South European Studies (CIRES, Italy, www.cires-ricerca.it), an independent research institute affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. CIRES research focuses on governance and political representation in the Mediterranean region and especially on the development of democracy in Mediterranean countries that seek to join the European Union. The Centre organizes seminars by resident and visiting scholars and publishes numerous papers, reports, and studies on the European integration process. o The Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (EICDS, Egypt, www.eicds.org) is a Cairo-based professional research center whose objective is the advancement of applied social science with an emphasis on Egypt, the Arab World, and the third world. The Center's flagship publication is Civil Society: Democratization in the Middle East, a monthly newsletter. o The Centre for Policy Research (CPR, India, www.cprindia.org) is an autonomous think-tank and one of twenty-seven national social science research institutes recognized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. CPR's major research areas include governance and civil society, international relations and diplomacy, and economic and social issues. Among the political issues studied by CPR researchers are the Indian parliament, constitutional issues, political reforms, and population and representation. o The St. Petersburg Centre for the Humanities and Political Studies (Strategy, Russia, www.strategy-spb.ru, in Russian), an independent research center that works to promote democracy and a strong civil society through programs that encourage public participation, a more responsive government, and the free exchange of ideas and scholarly information. The Centre's current research focuses on human rights, participatory democracy, anticorruption, and constitutional reform. 2. NEW PUBLICATIONS AND RECENT EVENTS 2.1 AFRICA Afrobarometer (www.afrobarometer.org) published four new Briefing Papers in April 2004, including "Public Opinion and HIV/AIDS: Facing Up to the Future?" "Lived Poverty in Africa: Desperation, Hope, and Patience," "Africa's Unemployment Crisis: Evolving Public Attitudes," and "Democracy and Electoral Alternation: Evolving African Attitudes." These studies are the latest in a series of twelve papers, all available for downloading at www.afrobarometer.org/abbriefing.html. Afrobarometer also recently published three new studies in its Working Paper Series: "Afrobarometer Round 2: A Compendium of Results from a 15-Country Survey;" "A New Dawn? Popular Optimism in Kenta after the Transition" by Tom Wolf, Carolyn Logan, and Jeremiah Owiti; and "The State of Democracy in Lesotho" by John Gay and Robert Mattes. Other 2003 titles in the series include "Learning about Democracy in Africa: Awareness, Performance, and Experience" by Robert Mattes and Michael Bratton, which developed and tested a hypothesis about how Africans form attitudes toward democracy, and "Eight Years of Multiparty Democracy in Mozambique: the Public's View" by João Pereira, Ines Raimundo, Annie Chikwanha, Alda Saute, and Robert Mattes. Abstracts of the Afrobarometer Working Paper series and ordering information are available at www.afrobarometer.org/abseries.html. The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (www.cdd-ghana.org) has published four new Briefing Papers with the collective title of "Preparations Towards Elections 2004." The include "Prospects and Challenges" by K. Afari-Gyan, "Issues of Demarcation and Political Representation" by Ernest Dumor, "Creation of New Districts Assemblies" by Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, and "Matters Arising" by H. Kwasi Prempeh and Kwaku Asare. For ordering information visit www.cdd-ghana.org/On%20the%20shelf.html. The Center for Democracy and Development, Nigeria (United Kingdom and Nigeria, www.cdd.org.uk) organized a full-day conference entitled "Conflict in West Africa" on March 1, 2004 at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. For more information about this event write to Morten Hagen at mhagen@cdd.org.uk. Dapo Oyewole, coordinator of CDD's London office, participated in a roundtable discussion entitled "How Should Civil Society Respond to Peer Review?" An article featuring the discussion appeared in the October 2003 issue of eAfrica: the Electronic Journal of Governance and Innovation, along with other articles and features on the peer review process. For more information about eAfrica, published by the South African Institute of International Affairs, write to editor@saiia.wits.ac.za. Recent Policy Briefs from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS, South Africa, www.cps.org.za) include "Democracy, Human Rights, and State Reform in Africa" (August 2003) by Shelton George, which faulted the newly-launched African Union for neglecting rights issues, and "An African Peer Review Mechanism: a Panacea for Africa's Governance Challenges?" by Malachia Mathoho, which examined the strengths and weaknesses of the new mechanism (launched in 2003) by which African states evaluate the practices of their peers in various policy areas, including politics and governance. The full texts of both studies are available at www.cps.org.za/pb2.htm. Paul Thulare, a CPS researcher, presented his new study entitled "Trading Democracy? Johannesburg Informal Traders and Citizenship" at a CPS seminar on February 17, 2004. Mr. Thulare's case study of inner-city street traders examines the extent to which poor persons exercise their rights of citizenship in response to government decisions to regulate their business activities. The full text is available at www.cps.org.za/cps%20pdf/pia17(1).pdf. The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa, www.idasa.org.za) published "The National Education Budget 2004" by Russell Andrew Wildeman in March 2004 as the latest in its Budget Briefs report series. The study primarily assessed how budgetary decisions on education impact efforts to reduce poverty in South Africa. The Idasa PIMS (Political Information and Monitoring Service-South Africa) published "Party Support in South Africa's Third Democratic Election" as the latest in its Elections Brief report series. Visit www.idasa.org.za for the full texts of both documents. 2.2 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC The Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI, Australia, www.cdi.anu.edu.au) convened a major symposium on "Governance in Pacific States: Reassessing Roles and Remedies," September 30-October 2, 2003 at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. The symposium featured seven plenary sessions on such topics as governance and democracy, civil society, and economic growth and sustainable development. Participants at concurrent sessions also discussed conflict resolution, political participation, parliamentary processes, fighting corruption, and regulation of the media. Fijan MP Krishna Datt presented a paper entitled "Democracy and Good Governance," focusing on constitutional reform in Fiji. Roland Rich, director of the CDI, presented a regional overview entitled "Reviewing Democracy in the Pacific: Participation and Deliberation." And Peter John Aitsi, president of Papua New Guinea's Media Council presented "Government and Media Regulations: the Papua New Guinea Experience." Texts of these papers, the conference program, and other materials are available at www.cdi.anu.edu.au/research_publications/research_SuvaConf_Sept03.htm. Mr. Rich also presented a paper entitled "Democratic Peace Theory: What Relevance for East Asia?" at the biannual meeting of the Australian committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific in August 2003. He argued that even though consolidated democracies rarely go to war against each other, transitional democracies, especially in East Asia, often engage in conflicts with their neighbors or face serious internal disputes. The full text is available at www.cdi.anu.edu.au/activities/Democratic%20Peace%20Theory%20Sept03.htm. CDI, the National Institute for Social Sciences and Law, and the Australian Senate cosponsored an August 2003 lecture by Karen Fogg, secretary-general of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) entitled "Paying for Political Parties: Choices for Democrats." Her talk examined the various systems of political-party finance in developing and established democracies, and reviewed the major reform alternatives. The full text is available at www.cdi.anu.edu.au/activities/activities_downloads/Paying%20for%20Parties-%20Karen%20Fogg%20Aug%2012%202003.pdf. For information about other CDI activities, see CDI.News, the Centre's bimonthly electronic newsletter, at www.cdi.anu.edu.au/cdinews/cdinews.htm. The Centre for Policy Research (CPR, India, www.cprindia.org) published numerous books in 2003 covering a wide range of issues. Among the Centre's newest works on politics are The Citizen and Judicial Reforms Under Indian Polity and Blueprint of Political Reforms, both by Subhash C. Kashyap, who also edited Political Reforms for Good Governance: A Policy Brief. CPR Report, a quarterly newsletter on new and completed research projects, conferences, and international events, is available at www.cprindia.org/activities.htm. The East Asia Institute (EAI, South Korea, www.eai.org.kr) published the September-December issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies, which included articles on "The Birth of a Welfare State in Korea: The Unfinished Symphony of Democratization and Globalization" by Ho Keun Song, "Institutionalized Uncertainty and Governance Crisis In Posthegemonic Taiwan" by Jih-wen Lin, and "Legalistic Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia" by Chaibong Hahm and Wooyeal Paik. For a complete table of contents and subscription information visit www.rienner.com/jeasrec.htm. The East Asia Barometer (Taiwan, http://eacsurvey.law.ntu.edu.tw), the department of political science at the National Taiwan University, and the Institute of Political Science at the Academica Sinica organized an international conference on "How Asians View Democracy: The Region in Global Perspective" at National Taiwan University on December 8-9, 2003. Visit http://eacsurvey.law.ntu.edu.tw for the conference agenda and a list of participants. The Institute for National Policy Research (INPR, Taiwan, www.inpr.org.tw) and the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) cosponsored a November 12, 2003 conference on "Democracy, Nationalism, and Security in the Asia Pacific" in Taipei. The meeting included panel sessions on "The Security Environment in East Asia: Worsening or Improving," "Asian Nationalism and Implications for the Region," and "Democratic Development in Taiwan and its Implications for Regional Security," the last of which was moderated by Chih-cheng Lo, director of INPR. The full program is available at www.inpr.org.tw/inprc/recent/Brookings1103.htm. King Prajadhipok's Institute (KPI, Thailand, www.kpi.ac.th) convened its fifth annual congress November 15-17, 2003 in Bangkok. Participants at the 500-person meeting on "Democracy and Poverty Alleviation" included members of parliament, academics, and representatives of state agencies and nongovernmental organizations that fight poverty. They heard keynote presentations by senior Thai government officials and scholars and then deliberated in numerous panels sessions and workshops on how Thailand and other democracies deal with the problem of poverty. For more information visit www.kpi.ac.th/download/KPI_Congress_V.pdf. 2.3 EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION The Access to Information Program (AIP, Bulgaria, www.aip-bg.org) published Access to Information: Norms and Practices of State Financial Control. The book (available in Bulgarian) is the latest in a series of AIP publications designed to inform citizens and to bring greater transparency to governmental procedures. AIP also contributed research and analysis to public debates on proposed amendments to the Bulgarian penal code that would establish severe new penalties for government officials and others, including journalists, who disclose so-called state secrets, regardless of whether such disclosure is in the public interest. The Program joined more than 40 other Bulgarian nongovernmental organizations in submitting a memorandum on the issue to parliament. For more information visit www.aip-bg.org/news_eng.htm. Ivan Krastev, chairman of the board, Centre for Liberal Strategies (CLS, Bulgaria, www.cls-sofia.org), contributed an article entitled "The Anti-American Century?" to the April 2004 Journal of Democracy. The article, which is available at www.journalofdemocracy.org describes two main types of contemporary anti-Americanism and speculates on the impact that the spread of these beliefs may have on democracy. Mr. Krastev presented a summary of his argument at a March 8 seminar in Washington, D.C., hosted by the International Forum for Democratic Studies. The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS, Bulgaria, www.iris-bg.org) published The War on Terror: Policy Implications, edited by Marin Lessenski (2003), a collection of five essays focusing on terror in the Balkans, its implications for the European Union, and the effects of the war against terror on civil liberties and the rights of ethnic minorities. The full text is available at www.iris-bg.org/publications/War_on_terror/Terror.htm. The Center for the Study of Democracy and Culture (CDK, Czech Republic, www.cdkbrno.cz) publishes original studies and Czech translations of classic and new works in political philosophy, social thought, and contemporary history. Among its newest book publications in Czech are Nationalism by Ernest Gellner, Pragmatism by William James, and The Political Theory of Multiculturalism by Pavel Barsa. The Center's complete book catalog is available (in Czech) at www.cdkbrno.cz/pages/cdk2003.pdf. The November-December issue of CDK's journal, Revue Politika, featured articles on the Khodorkovsky affair in Russia and on the prospects for cooperation among Czech right-wing political parties, plus a look back at the events of November 1989. Czech President Václav Klaus also contributed an essay entitled "Reflections on the Current Situation in Europe." For a table of contents and full texts of selected articles, visit www.cdkbrno.cz/proglas.php?id=2003_11-12. The latest book publication of the Center for Policy Studies (CPS, Hungary, www.ceu.hu/cps) is Nationalism after Communism, edited by Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies) and Alina Mungiu Pippidi (Romanian Academic Society). Contributors to the January 2004 volume analyzed the postcommunist experience of ethnic revival, primarily in the Balkan states, and examined ways of managing ethnic conflict. For a listing of chapters and contributors visit www.ceu.hu/cps/pub/pub_books_postcomnat.htm. The CPS and the Open Society Institute of New York also released Ethnic Violence and Justice: the Debate over Responsibility, Accountability, Intervention, Complicity, Tribunals, and Truth Commissions (Central European University Press, 2003). The book reviewed some of the worst violations of human rights in the twentieth century, and analyzed the international community's often inadequate responses to them. CPS books are published and distributed by the Central European University Press. For more titles in the series visit www.ceu.hu/cps/pub/pub_books.htm. Andrew Cartwright, a CPS researcher, prepared a report entitled "Social Capital in the Balkans: the Missing Link?" The report summarized an international workshop cosponsored in 2003 by CPS and the Blue Bird Social Inclusion Group, at which participants debated definitions of social capital and described their applications, particularly in postsocialist countries. The complete report is available at www.ceu.hu/cps/eve/eve_soccap_report.pdf. The Institute of Public Affairs (ISP, Poland, www.isp.org.pl) published "Poland in the European Union: A Challenge for Polish Administration" by Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse in its Analyses and Opinions essay series. The author recommended specific reforms for the Polish governmental bureaucracy as the country prepares to join the EU in May 2004. The full text is available at www.isp.org.pl/docs/briefs/analyses14.pdf. Another recently published essay in the series is "Yes to Visegrad" by Mateusz Falkowski, and Grzegorz Gromadzki. Examining recent opinion polls in the Visegrad Four countries (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic), the authors found that citizens support continued cooperation within the Visegrad group even after their countries accession to the European Union in May 2004. The full text of the report is available at www.isp.org.pl/docs/briefs/analyses16.pdf. IPS also published "Review of the EU Constitutional Treaty: Challenges for Poland"-the first comprehensive Polish analysis of the impact of the draft EU treaty on accession countries-by Jan Barcz, Cezary Mik, and Artur Nowak-Far. An English summary of the study is available at www.isp.org.pl/docs/PE/eng/review_of_the_eu.pdf. The Institute published eight books in Polish in 2003, including Preventing Conflict of Interest in Contemporary Poland edited by Marek Zubek, and The Image of Poland and the Poles in Europe by ISP director Lena Kolarska-Bobinska. A complete listing of ISP publications is available at www.isp.org.pl. The Romanian Academic Society (SAR, www.sar.org.ro) published a special issue of its Policy Warning Report in October 2003 under the title "Is 2007 Feasible? The State of Romania's EU Accession." The report assessed the country's readiness to meet the conditions of EU membership by the end of 2004, at which time its negotiations with Brussels are expected to be completed. It concluded with a set of recommendations of steps that should to be taken by the Romanian government, international donors, and the European Commission to improve the country's chances of meeting the 2004 deadline. See www.sar.org.ro/pwr/pwr3/pwr3enweb.pdf for the full text. The January 2004 issue of the Policy Warning Report included SAR's forecasts for politics and the economy for the coming year, in which Romania will join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, begin privatization of the energy sector, and conduct local, parliamentary, and presidential elections. The full text (in English and Romanian) is available at www.sar.org.ro. The Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Russia, www.demokratia.ru/eng), in collaboration with the Institute of Human Rights and the International Historical-Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society, publishes a monthly newsletter entitled Legislative Process in the State Duma: Human Rights Analysis. Each issue includes a review of newly introduced legislation, monitoring of voting by members of parliament, and a special focus section with analysis of bills that have a particular importance for human rights and democracy. An English edition, launched in 2002, is available by free e-mail subscription. For an archive of past issues and to subscribe, visit www.demokratia.ru/eng/analyst/reviewlaws/arhive.php. Director Andrew C. Kuchins, Senior Associate Lilia Shevtsova, and Scholar-in-Residence Alexei Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia, www.carnegie.ru) joined Anders Åslund, director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, at a March 16, 2004 briefing in Washington, D.C. discussing the recent presidential election in Russia. A complete transcript is available at www.ceip.org/files/events/2004-03-16-postelectionbrief-tscrip.asp. The Carnegie Moscow Center published Between East and West: Ukraine and Belarus in Contemporary Europe, a Russian-language study of the most pressing problems of Belarus and Ukraine's relations with Russia, the European Union, and NATO. The study, authored by Arkady Moshes and Kirill Koktysh, is available at www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/books/7917Nurick2.pdf. In its Working Paper series, the Center published "Administrative Ethics as a Means Against Corruption" by Dmitri Vasiliev, Pavel Drobyshev, and Alexei Konov. The Russian text is available at www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/workpapers/4_2003.pdf. In "The Forgotten War: Chechnya and Russia's Future," Carnegie scholar Dmitri V. Trenin argues against viewing the conflict in the Caucasus as a part of the global war on terror or merely as a human rights issue. The war is having a major impact on Russia's modernization and the development of a democratic political culture, he asserted. The full text of this Carnegie Policy Brief is available in English at www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Policybrief28.pdf. The Institute for Public Affairs (IVO, Slovakia, www.ivo.sk) published the Slovak-language edition of Slovakia 2003: A Global Report on the State of Society in December 2003. Edited by Miroslav Kollár and Grigorij Meseznikov, the Global Report is IVO's flagship annual review of the most important developments in politics and the economy, foreign affairs, and social life in the Slovak Republic. Fifty authors, including many of Slovakia's most prominent political scientists, economists, and other policy experts, contributed to the volume. The English-language edition of Slovakia 2003 will be released in April 2004. Two scholars from IVO participated in a November 2003 international seminar on "Perceptions of European Integration" in Vilnius, Lithuania: O?ga Gyárfásová delivered a paper entitled "National Identity in Slovakia's Public Debate on EU Membership," and Michal Vase?ka presented his study of the "Prospects for the Integration of the Roma Minority in Slovakia." Summaries of both papers are available at www.ivo.sk/aktivity_okna/aktivita_okno4_207.htm. IVO and the International Republican Institute (Washington, D.C.) cosponsored a December 3 conference in Bratislava entitled "Slovakia 2003: Ten Years of Independence and a Year of Reforms." Panel sessions explored the strength of Slovak democracy, economic and social reforms, and trends in public opinion. Visit www.ivo.sk/aktivity5.htm for the agenda. The Institute will publish the conference proceedings later in the year. The International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS, Ukraine, www.icps.kiev.ua) publishes the weekly ICPS Newsletter that focuses on politics, economics, and other issues covered by ICPS researchers. The March 15, 2004 issue focused on "Politics in Ukraine: 8 Months to the Presidential Election"; the February 23, 2004 issue, "More Attention Needed to Election Platforms" outlined the policy platforms of Ukraine's major political parties. For a full archive of past newsletters and subscription information visit www.icps.kiev.ua/eng/publications/nl.html. 2.4 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN FUNDAR (Center for Analysis and Research, Mexico, www.fundar.org.mx) coordinated a major annual study of budget transparency and political participation in ten Latin American countries. The research was conducted by leading NGOs and academics and was published as the Latin American Budget Transparency Index 2003. Helena Hofbauer, executive director of FUNDAR, participated in the release of the Index at a November 2003 conference at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C. For more information and country summaries, visit www.internationalbudget.org/resources/newsletter18.htm. FUNDAR also publishes Pe$o$ y ContraPe$o$, a newletter that analyzes the Mexican federal budget. The Spanish-language text is available at www.fundar.org.mx/fundar/index.html. Elisabeth Ungar, director of Congreso Visible (Colombia, http://cvisible.uniandes.edu.co) published "Las Elecciones de 2003: ¿Hacia La Reconfiguración del Mapa Político y del Estilo de Hacer Política?" The Spanish text of this analysis of the October 2003 elections in Columbia is available at http://cvisible.uniandes.edu.co/quienes/prensa.html. Latinobarometer (Chile, www.latinobarometro.org) conducted its annual opinion poll of 17 Latin American countries in the summer of 2003. The survey probed citizens' views of the state of democracy, government performance, political parties, civic culture, the economy, and globalization. A 60-page summary of the research is available at www.latinobarometro.org/English/PressRe03nr.htm. 2.5 MIDDLE EAST Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies (ICDS, Egypt, www.eicds.org) resumed its operations in June 2003 after a three-year hiatus. The Center was closed by the Egyptian authorities in June 2003, when Saad Eddin Ibrahim, chairman of ICDS, and many of his fellow researchers were arrested and imprisoned for various lengths of time. Upon reopening, the Center immediately resumed publication of its monthly magazine, Civil Society: Democratization in the Middle East, whose June 2003 issue reported on the legal case against Dr. Ibrahim, it aftermath, and his ultimate acquittal by Egypt's High Court of Cassation. Subsequent issues of Civil Society provided analysis and commentary on democratic developments in many parts of the Muslim world. Current and back issues are available at www.eicds.org, as is a lengthy list of Center books and reports published before 2000. Since June, Saad Eddin Ibrahim has participated in numerous academic and policy conferences, including a November 13 panel discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. entitled "Democratic Institutions, Human Rights, and the Fight Against Global Terror," and a session later that day day on "Democratizing the Arab World?" at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. For a transcript visit www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=41485. The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI, www.idi.org.il) published The State of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy, a compendium of articles and interviews edited by Joseph David. The book explored the implications of defining Israel as "a Jewish and democratic state," a topic of heated debate in the country today. An abstract and ordering information are available at www.idi.org.il/english/catalog.php?pdid=280. In cooperation with the Magnes Press of Hebrew University, IDI also published a Hebrew translation of The Future of Democracy, a collection of essays by the Italian political theorist Norberto Bobbio. English summaries of this and other Hebrew-language publications are available at www.idi.org.il. Radwan Masmoudi, president of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID, United States, www.islam-democracy.org) and Louay Safi, CSID director of research, visited the Philippines in September 2003 as part of a study tour organized by the Philippines Council on Islam and Democracy. They met with Muslim scholars and religious leaders and spoke at the University of the Philippines and at Mindanao State University, among other places. A report on these events is avaliable at www.islam-democracy.org/Mindanao-trip-2003.asp. The November 2003 issue of the Muslim Democrat, the Center's newsletter, included a lead article by Mr. Masmoudi entitled "Democracy in the Middle East: Watching What the U.S. Does as Well as What Bush Says," plus an extended report on the CSID's 2003 annual conference, "Why Democracy and Why Now?" The full text of the newsletter is available at www.islam-democracy.org/documents/pdf/md_november03.pdf. 2.6 ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES The Institute for Political Studies (IEP, Portugal, www.ucp.pt/iep.index.html), in collaboration with the Boston College Summer Program and the Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu of Poland, will cosponsor the XII International Annual Meeting in Political Studies from June 28 to July 4, 2004 in Cascais, Portugal. The theme of this year's meeting will be "Ideas of Europe and the Trans-Atlantic Relationship." Featured speakers will include João Carlos Espada (Portugal), Pierre Manent (France), Anthony O'Hear (United Kingdom), Radek Sikorski (Poland), and William Kristol, Marc F. Plattner, and James Ceasar (United States). For more information visit www.ucp.pt/iep.index.html. The Institute also organizes seminars and lectures throughout the academic year on topics in political thought. Forthcoming events include sessions on democracy in Africa, transitions to democracy in central and eastern Europe, new challenges to liberal democracy in a global world, and American democracy in comparative perspective. Visit www.ucp.pt/iep/eventos.html for a listing of speakers and event titles. Richard Rose, director of the Center for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP, United Kingdom, www.cspp.strath.ac.uk), and Neil Munro published Elections and Parties in New European Democracies (CQ Press, 2003). The first part of the book provides a model for understanding electoral competition and political parties in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, and the second part collects national election data from more than twelve of these countries. For ordering information visit www.cspp.strath.ac.uk. The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS, United States, www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats) marked its inauguration on October 30, 2003 by sponsoring a panel discussion entitled "Debating Civil Society and Democracy." Steven N. Durlauf discussed his recent work on groups, social influences, and inequality; Stanley N. Katz presented a paper entitled "Constitutionalism and Civil Society;" and Theda Skocpol examined the ways in which civil society has changed in America in a talk entitled "Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy." Full texts are available at www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/centerlectures(past).htm. Marc Morjé Howard, assistant professor of government at Georgetown University and a CDATS faculty associate, published The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003), a study of how low levels of civic involvement in postcommunist Europe impede the development of democracy. For more information about this book visit www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/pubs.htm. CDATS also organized a Speaker Series on the Quality of Democracy that ran from from October 2003 to April 2004. Visit www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/speakerseries.htm#schedule for a listing of speakers and available papers. Finally, in the Spring of 2004 CDATS published the inaugural issue of Democracy and Society, a 28-page newsletter that included feature articles on social capital and corruption, community development, civic virtues, and informal representation, plus reviews of six new books on democracy and democratic theory. The full text is available at www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/newsletter.htm. The International Forum for Democratic Studies (IFDS, United States, www.ned.org) published the January 2004 issue of the Journal of Democracy, which featured a cluster of articles on European Union enlargement and an article on "Iraq: Setbacks, Advances, Prospects" by Adeed Dawisha. The issue also carried articles on Mexico, Indonesia, and social diversity, as well as a report on the 2003 Freedom House Survey. The full text of the Dawisha article, abstracts, as well as ordering information can be found at www.journalofdemocracy.org. The Forum's Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program welcomed the first cohort of its 2003-2004 class in October 2003. Additional fellows arrived in February and March 2004. Countries represented by this year's fellows include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Guatemala, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sudan, Uganda, and Uzbekistan. The program was established in 2001 to enable democracy activists, practitioners, and scholars from around the world to spend from three to ten months in residence at the Forum engaged in research, writing, reflection, and networking. For a complete listing of current and former fellows and descriptions of their projects, please visit www.ned.org/forum/current.html. For information on how to apply for the Reagan-Fascell Fellowships, visit www.ned.org/forum/reagan-fascell.html. Marc F. Plattner, codirector of the International Forum, published an article entitled "Sovereignty and Democracy" in the January 2004 Policy Review. The article discusses the continued viability of the modern state and the impact on democracy of a shifting of sovereignty from the state to multinational organizations. The article has been reprinted in Arcana 53 (5/2003) in Polish, Nova Cidadania 19 (January-March 2004) in Portuguese, Merkur 660 (April 2004) in German, and is forthcoming in Commentaire 106 (Summer 2004) in French. The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD, United States, www.democ.uci.edu), the University of Missouri, and the East West Center cosponsored a conference on "Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim" on March 19-20 at the East West Center in Hawaii. The collaborative project has assembled an international team of scholars who are examining citizen attitudes toward democracy and markets in East Asia, using data from the latest World Values Survey. The project is directed by Russell Dalton, director of the CSD, and Doh Chull Shin, University of Missouri. For a conference program and papers, visit http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/democ/confer/eastwest.htm. Roland Rogowski, professor of political science, University of California, Los Angeles, delivered the fifth annual CSD Eckstein Lecture on January 29, 2004. His talk was entitled "The Economic Policy Consequences of Electoral Systems: Can Proportional Representation Survive Globalization?" Recently presented CSD research papers that are now available online include "Modes of Transition, Internal Party Rules, and Levels of Elite Continuity: A Comparison of the Spanish and Argentine Democracies" by Bonnie N. Field (http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/04-03/) and "Reconstructing the Concept of Democratic Deliberation" by Shawn Rosenberg (http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/04-02). On October 10-11, 2003 the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL, United States, http://cddrl.stanford.edu) and the European Forum of Stanford University organized a conference on "The Quality of Democracy: Improvement or Subversion?" The first day of the event focused on theoretical issues in the study of the Quality of Democracy, including the rule of law, accountability and responsiveness, and freedom and equality. The second day featured case studies of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Among the NDRI scholars who participated in this event were Larry Diamond (Stanford University and the International Forum), Leonardo Morlino (Interuniversity Research Centre on Southern Europe), E. Gyimah-Boadi (Ghana Center for Democratic Development), Marc Plattner (International Forum), Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Romanian Academic Society), Yun-han Chu (East Asia Barometer), and Robert Mattes (Afrobarometer). For a full listing of participants, papers, and additional information visit http://iis-db.stanford.edu/viewevent.lhtml?eid=1495&cntr=cddrl. The Center on Democratic Performance (CDP, United States, http://cdp.binghamton.edu) at Binghamton University recently launched the Election Results Archive (ERA)-a collection of electronic files containing data on more than 900 elections from around the world from 1974 to the present. As explained on the ERA Web site (http://cdp.binghamton.edu/era/index.html), the Archive contains results for presidential and national parliamentary elections for 134 countries that have met the minimum threshold of democratic performance in both Freedom House and University of Maryland Polity rankings. The site allows searches by region or country, year, and type of election; results are displayed instantly and clearly. The Archive will grow in importance as more recent results are continuously added to the database. The Center also maintains a growing collection of working papers by CDP scholars available for download at http://cdp.binghamton.edu. Recently posted works include "Resistance is Futile! The Collective Action Problem and Successful Dissent" by Katri K. Sieberg and "On the Prospects for Social Revolution in the Industrialized Democracies of the West" by Patrick M. Regan, director of the CDP. A Note of Thanks International Forum interns Melissa Aten and Shane Keane collected news items, checked facts, and helped to write this issue of Democracy Research News. |
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