DPI403 - Class notes

Pippa Norris DPI-403

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John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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DPI403 Class Notes

DPI-403

Class Notes - Fall 2010

All the Power point presentations are posted here during the semester after each class. Please contact me if you experience any problems with downloading or viewing. All slides are now in Acrobat.pdf format. Please send your feedback, comments, suggestions, and queries to the CAs.

Class	Date	Topic	Due dates (i)
		Part I: Introduction, overview and advocacy
	Mon 30 Aug	Shopping: Roadmap of the course
1	Wed 1 Sept	Concepts of Democratic Governance
	Mon 6th Sept	No class: Labor day
2	Wed 8 Sept	Analytical framework explaining democratization
3	Mon 13 Sept	Applying the framework: Why are there no Arab democracies?
4	Wed 15 Sept	Impact of democratic governance on economic growth and social welfare
5	Mon 20 Sept	Impact of democratic governance upon peace and conflict
		Part II: Analytics: Diagnostics, benchmarks and indicators
6	Wed 22 Sept	Overview: Alternative concepts of democratic governance: the expanded framework
7	Mon 28 Sept	Measures and indicators of democratic governance
8	Wed 29 Sept	Measuring democracy: Freedom House and Polity IV
9	Mon 4 Oct	Measuring governance: WBI Kaufmann-Kraay Visiting speaker: Jan Teorell, Lund University
10	Wed 6 Oct	Utilizing the shared CS-TS class datasets (Applied Lab session #1)*
	Mon 11th Oct	No class: Columbus day
11	Wed 13 Oct	Survey indicators and democratic audits: WVS
12	Mon 18 Oct	Utilizing the shared CS-TS class datasets (Applied Lab session #2)*
		Part III: Options: reform strategies and agencies
13	Wed 20 Oct	The role of the UN, regional organizations and bilateral donors
14	Mon 25 Oct	Constitution-building in peace-building processes: International IDEA	#1
15	Wed 27 Oct	CASE STUDY GROUP PRESENTATION A
16	Mon 1 Nov	Elections: ACE/International IDEA
17	Wed 3 Nov	Elections: ACE/International IDEA (see above)
18	Mon 8 Nov	CASE STUDY GROUP PRESENTATION B
19	Wed 10 Nov	Parliaments, parties, and women’s empowerment: the Inter-parliamentary Union
20	Mon 15 Nov	Local governance/federalism, and anti-corruption: Transparency International
21	Wed 17 Nov	CASE STUDY GROUP PRESENTATION C
22	Mon 22 Nov	Civil society, social capital and the news media: Committee to Protect Journalists and the Open Society Institute
23	Wed 24 Nov	Human rights, justice, and rule of law: UN and Amnesty International
24	Mon 29 Nov	CASE STUDY GROUP PRESENTATION D
25	Wed 1 Dec	Conclusion & wrap up: tea and coffee, coffee cake and fruit will be available!	#2

No class will be held on official university holidays on Labor Day (Mon 6 Sept) and Columbus Day (Mon 11 Oct).

Occasional guest speakers may be added to the schedule.

*Computer lab sessions in Taubman (Sign up for group A, B or C for each session). The computer lab has 20 terminals; you may need to share with a partner. Additional lab sessions will be scheduled for Tuesday afternoon on 5th and 19th Oct. You need to attend two sessions in total in order to complete the second assignment. Sign-up sheets will be circulated closer to the date.