PROGRAMME

Wednesday 26 April

9:00 — Mariana Nord: Democracy Report 2023: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization

10:00 — Carl Henrik Knutsen: Subjective vs Objective Measures of Democracy

11:00 — Jacob Nyrup: Consolidating Progress: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies

12:00 — LUNCH

13:00 — David Randahl: Inexorable Force or Dying Wave?: Long term trends of democratization and the third wave of autocratization

14:00 — Felix Haass: Measuring Symbolic Politics: Introducing New Data on Buildings and Monuments from across the World

15:00 — Nils Lid Hjort: Assessing democracy's influence on the probability of conflict escalation

Thursday 27 April

9:00 — Bethany Lacina: Freedom of Migration in Democracy Indices: Trends captured and trends missed

10:00 — Kristian Gleditsch: Democracy in Decline

11:00 — Vilde Djuve: Patterns of Regime Breakdown Since the French Revolution

11:30 — LUNCH

12:30 — Jonas Schmid: Death by debt? Fiscal deficits and the political survival of finance ministers across regime types

13:30 — Michael Colaresi: The World IS Flat (On Our Screens): How Digital Disinformation Disrupts Social Learning in Democracies (But is Difficult to Measure)

14:30 — Mauricio Rivera: Does Criminal Violence Lower Voter Turnout?