UNDPHDR Africa Regional Symposium Deepening Democracy in Africa

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UNDP/HDR Africa Regional SymposiumDeepening
Democracy in Africa

• Professor Monty G. Marshall
• INSCR Program Director
• Project Director, Polity IV
• Center for International Development and Conflict
  Management
• University of Maryland

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How Can We Better Measure Democracy?

• Perspectives on democratic governance
• Electoral/Procedural
• Participatory/Social
• Individual Freedoms/Liberal
• Representative/Republican
• Social Identity/Communitarian
• Societal Security/Conditional

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Polity IV Data Series, 1800-2001

• Patterns of Authority/Directiveness
• Democracy (Open, Competitive)
• Anocracy (Incoherent, Transitory)
• Autocracy (Closed, Restricted)
• Regime Characteristics
• Executive Recruitment
• Executive Constraints
• Political Participation
• Polity (Regime) Score Scale -10 to 10

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Research Essential Linkages

• Nature of the Regime/Quality of Governance
• Societal and Systemic Development (capabilities
  alternatives)
• Socio-political Conflict and Collective Violence
  (trust)
• Social Identity (inclusion national/local
  unity/plurality)
• Societal and Systemic Integration (network
  density)

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TrendsGovernance, Armed Conflict, and
Development
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Global Trends
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Sub-Saharan Africa Trends
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Perils of Democratic Transition
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Systems Analysis

• Neighborhoods/Regionalism
• Globalization