DPI‐403DPI403Introduction to using the QoGdatasetHousekeepingHousekeeping•Sign up for lab sessionsSign up for lab sessions• A. Mon 5th1.00‐2.30, B. 2.30‐4.00, C. Tues 6th1‐2.30• A. Mon 19th1.00‐2.30 , B 2.30‐4.00, C Tues 20th1‐2.30,,• Download template for 1stassignment report•Review examples of previous student reports•Review examples of previous student reports• Visiting speakers announcedClass Date Topic Due dates (i)Part I: Advocacy: Democratic governance for development1 Wed 2 Sept Introduction: Roadmap and democratic governance for development2 Wed 9 Sept The role of the UN, regional organizations and bilateral donors3 Mon 14 Sept Impact upon economic growth and social welfare4 Wed 16 Sept Impact upon peace, conflict and terrorismPart II: Analytics: Diagnostics, benchmarks and indicators5 Mon 21 Sept Overview: Alternative concepts of democratic governance6 Wed 23 Sept Introduction to using the QoG and shared class datasets7 Mon 28 Sept Measuring democracy: Freedom House and Polity IV8 Wed 30 Sept Guest Lecture: Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: DemocracyPromotion9 Mon 5 Oct Utilizing the shared CS ‐TS class datasets (Applied Lab session #1)*10 Wed 7 Oct Survey indicators and democratic audits: WVS11 Wed 14 Oct Measuring good governance: Kaufmann‐Kraay12M19OU ili ihhdCSTSld(A li dLbi#2)*12Mon19OctUtilizing thesharedCS‐TSclassdatasets(AppliedLabsession#2)*Part III: Options: reform strategies and agencies13 Wed 21 Oct Constitution‐building in peace‐building processes: International IDEA #114 Mon 26 Oct Elections: ACE/Internnational IDEA15 Wed 28 Oct Guest Lecture: Larry Diamond Strategies and options for strengthening democratic governance16 Mon 2 Nov Strengthening representation: parliaments, parties, and women’s empowerment: the Inter‐parliamentary Union17 Wed 4 Nov Building the capable state: public administration reform, local governance, and anti‐corruption:Transparency International18Mon9NovCivilsocietysocialcapitalandthenewsmedia:CommitteetoProtectJournalistsandtheOpen18Mon9NovCivilsociety,socialcapitalandthenewsmedia:CommitteetoProtectJournalistsandtheOpenSociety Institute19 Mon 16 Nov Human rights, justice, and rule of law: Amnesty International # 2Part IV: Implementation: Applied case‐studies20 Wed 18 Nov Identifying your client’s strategic priorities and capacities21 Mon 23 Nov Guest Lecture: Ingrid Wetterqvist and Massimo Tommasoli , International IDEA: Europeanapproaches to Democracy Promotion22 Wed 25 Nov Class workgroup presentationsConclusions23 Mon 30 Nov Conclusion & wrap up #3StructureStructure1Why measure the quality of democratic1.Why measure the quality of democratic governance?2What types of indicators are available in the2.What types of indicators are available in the QoG dataset?3H h l ff i l?3.How can you present the results effectively?1. Why measureQoG?1. Why measure QoG?–Evidence based policymakingEvidence based policymaking– Diagnosis of priorities facing country–Implementation and program performanceImplementation and program performance management by results–Policy analysis–what works?Policy analysis what works?– Human development•UNDP’s HDIUNDP s HDI• MDG targets eg poverty, female education• Standardized international statistics1st class assignment1st class assignment• Assignment 1: Challenges of democratic governance facing a world region (30%) • Aim: Become familiar with the most common indices and datasets to compare and evaluate the quality of democratic governance. • You are asked to use selected indicators to write a professional report assessing and comparing the problems of democratic governance reform in one world region (e.g. Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle‐East). • The potential client for your report is a regional organization, an international bl ld l h d h dagency or a bilateral donor. Your client has requested the report in order to identify the most pressing problems of democratic governance in the region, to prioritize their work within countries. • Your report will also be read and critiqued by representa tives from governments d ti l tkhld i th iit d t b fll itt dand national stake‐holders in the region so it needs to be carefully written and supported by direct evidence derived from the available datasets and from citations to existing research. • It has a professional readership so the presentation of effective graphs and figures is essential to summarize data with more technical details confined to a technicalis essential to summarize data, with more technical details confined to a technical appendix. It should NOT be written as a personal essay or as an academic paper. 9/23/2009 www.pippanorris.com 61stAssignment1Assignment• What indicators would you use (and why?)hdii ddilbh kld dl• What descriptive trends and summary regional benchmarks would you develop for comparison?• What additional information would you collect, to evaluate and measure political priorities in your region? • What secondary literature is available from research to support your argument? As part of the exercise, you should justify your choice of criteria, measures, and evidence for a non‐technical audience. The QoG dataset provides the following resources, along with many others:• 1. Freedom House index of political rights and civil liberties• 2. Polity IV Project Democracy and Autocracy scales•3.Cheibuband Gandhi Democracy‐Autocracy classification3. Cheibuband Gandhi DemocracyAutocracy classification• 4. Vanhanen Democracy Index• 5. World Values Survey/Global Barometers Attitudinal surveys• 6. Kaufmann/Kray World Bank Institute Good governance indicators7 T IilCiid•7. Transparency International Corruption index9/23/2009 www.pippanorris.com 7Common professional skillCommon professional skill•Practical use of descriptive statistics andPractical use of descriptive statistics and qualitative cases for evidence‐based performance indicatorsperformance indicators• Country/regional assessments and needs analysisanalysis• Effective descriptive presentation to display d d itrends and comparisons• Accessible for a practitioner readership2. WHAT INDICATORS ARE2. WHAT INDICATORS ARE AVAILABLE?www.qog.pol.gu.se/www.qog.pol.gu.se/9/23/2009 www.pippanorris.com 10Types ofQoGvariablesTypes of QoGvariables1. WII (What It Is)