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Introduction to using the QoGdataset

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• Review examples of previous student reports• Review examples of previous student reports

• Visiting speakers announced

Class Date Topic Due dates (i)

Part I: Advocacy: Democratic governance for development

1 Wed 2 Sept Introduction: Roadmap and democratic governance for development

2 Wed 9 Sept The role of the UN, regional organizations and bilateral donors

3 Mon 14 Sept Impact upon economic growth and social welfare

4 Wed 16 Sept Impact upon peace, conflict and terrorism

Part II: Analytics: Diagnostics, benchmarks and indicators

5 Mon 21 Sept Overview: Alternative concepts of democratic governance

6 Wed 23 Sept Introduction to using the QoG and shared class datasets

7 Mon 28 Sept Measuring democracy: Freedom House and Polity IV

8 Wed 30 Sept Guest Lecture: Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: DemocracyPromotion

9 Mon 5 Oct Utilizing the shared CS‐TS class datasets (Applied Lab session #1)*

10 Wed 7 Oct Survey indicators and democratic audits: WVS

11 Wed 14 Oct Measuring good governance: Kaufmann‐Kraay

12 M 19 O U ili i h h d CS TS l d (A li d L b i #2)*12 Mon19 Oct Utilizing the shared CS‐TS class datasets (Applied Lab session #2)*

Part III: Options: reform strategies and agencies

13 Wed 21 Oct Constitution‐building in peace‐building processes: International IDEA #1

14 Mon 26 Oct Elections: ACE/Internnational IDEA

15 Wed 28 Oct Guest Lecture: Larry Diamond Strategies and options for strengthening democratic governance

16 Mon 2 Nov Strengthening representation: parliaments, parties, and women’s empowerment: the Inter‐parliamentary Union

17 Wed 4 Nov Building the capable state: public administration reform, local governance, and anti‐corruption:Transparency International

18 Mon 9 Nov Civil society social capital and the news media: Committee to Protect Journalists and the Open18 Mon 9 Nov Civil society, social capital and the news media: Committee to Protect Journalists and the OpenSociety Institute

19 Mon 16 Nov Human rights, justice, and rule of law: Amnesty International # 2

Part IV: Implementation: Applied case‐studies

20 Wed 18 Nov Identifying your client’s strategic priorities and capacities

21 Mon 23 Nov Guest Lecture: Ingrid Wetterqvist and Massimo Tommasoli, International IDEA: Europeanapproaches to Democracy Promotion

22 Wed 25 Nov Class workgroup presentations

Conclusions

23 Mon 30 Nov Conclusion & wrap up # 3

StructureStructure

1 Why measure the quality of democratic1. Why measure the quality of democratic governance?

2 What types of indicators are available in the2. What types of indicators are available in the QoG dataset?

3 H h l ff i l ?3. How can you present the results effectively?

1. Why measure QoG?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 statistics

1st 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 b l l d 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 representatives from governments d ti l t k h ld i th i it d t b f ll 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.  

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1st Assignment1 Assignment• What indicators would you use (and why?)

h d i i d d i l b h k ld d l• 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. Cheibub and Gandhi Democracy‐Autocracy classification3. Cheibub and Gandhi Democracy Autocracy classification• 4. Vanhanen Democracy Index• 5. World Values Survey/Global Barometers Attitudinal surveys• 6. Kaufmann/Kray World Bank Institute Good governance indicators

7 T I i l C i i d• 7. Transparency International Corruption index

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Common 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 readership

2. WHAT INDICATORS ARE2. WHAT INDICATORS ARE AVAILABLE?

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Types of QoG variablesTypes of QoG variables

1. WII (What It Is) variables, – variables pertaining to the core features of QoG (such as 

corruption, bureaucratic quality, and democracy)2. HTG (How To Get it) variables,  (causes)

– variables posited to promote the  development of QoG (such as electoral rules, forms of government, federalism, legal & colonial origin, religion and social fractionalization); and

3 WYG (Wh Y G ) i bl ( )3. WYG (What You Get) variables, (consequences)– variables pertaining to some of the posited consequences of 

QoG (such as economic and human development, international and domestic peace environmentalinternational and domestic peace, environmental sustainability, gender equality, and satisfied, trusting & confident citizens).

QoG datasetQoG dataset

How to  What  What get it QoG is you get

QoG What it is…QoG What it is…

• Be selective….• Cheibub & Gandhi

• Type of regime democracy/autocracy

Ci lli & Ri h d• Cingranelli & Richards• Human rights 

• Freedom HouseFreedom House• Freedom in the world

• Polity IV• Democracy‐autocracy

• World Bank• Good governance indicatorsGood governance indicators

Types of dataTypes of data

• Cross‐sectionalCross sectional – 192 independent nation‐states

2006 (or latest year available)– 2006 (or latest year available)

– Released June 2009

Ti i 1990 2006• Time‐series 1990‐2006– Same nation‐states plus 13 historical countries

Examples of graphics and tables from the UNDP Human Development

3. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Examples of graphics and tables from the UNDP Human Development Report

3. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

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