Marinov will discuss a book project by Flores and Nooruddin and serve as discussant on a separate panel on democratization.  More below.

Author Meets Critics: Electing Democracy? by Thomas Flores and Irfan Nooruddin

Roundtable: Experts on elections and democratization engage a new book that shows why democracy might fail even if elections are free and fair.

Chair:

Emily Ann Beaulieu, University of Kentucky

Panelists:

Susan Dayton Hyde, Yale University

Nikolay Marinov, University of Mannheim

Alberto Simpser, ITAM

Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University

Thomas Edward Flores, George Mason University

Panel: International Factors and Democratization

Paper(s):

The United States of America‘s role in the promotion of democracy: an approach to the transitions to democracy in Cuba and Venezuela.

Maria Isabel Puerta, University of Carabobo

The Autocracy Diffusion: the case study of Post-Soviet Eurasia

Anastasia Viktorovna Obydenkova, Harvard University

Dictators in Exile: Explaining the Destinations of Ex-Rulers

Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Daniel Krcmaric, Duke University

With a Little Help from Our (Autocratic) Friends: The Aid-Democratization Nexus and Chinese Development Assistance

Nicholas R. Davis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Poisoning the Well: Foreign Aid and the Consolidation of Democracy in the Developing World

Alexandra Zena Alicia Wishart, Georgia State University

Discussant(s):

Nikolay Marinov, University of Mannheim

Henry Roderick Thomson, Nuffield College, University of Oxford