Track Code
RC34
Track Chairs
Dr. Brigitte Weiffen
Prof. Paulina Pospieszna
RC34 - Quality of Democracy wants to cast new light on the empirical analysis of quality of democracy and wants to provide scholars with a new “space” in which they can meet and share methodological and empirical works aiming to deep our understanding of the mechanisms that lead democratic processes, such as changes, subversions, anchoring, etc.
Panels
- RC34.14 Democracy and Human Rights in Transition: Emerging Challenges and Local Responses
Chair: Prof. Da-Chi Liao
13-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.11 The Emergence of Authoritarianism and Populist Regimes: Critical Reflections
Chair: Dr. Agnes Darabos
13-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.01 Democracy Promotion in Times of Autocratization
Chair: Dr. Saumya Tewari
13-07-2025 11:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) B - RC34.25 Elections and the Quality of Democracy
Chair: Dr. Himabindu Mukthipudi
13-07-2025 15:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) D - RC34.17 Issues of Democratic Participation: Elections and Governance Across World Geographic Regions
Chair: Prof. Dianne Pinderhughes
13-07-2025 15:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) D - RC34.04 Resisting Against Autocratization to Save Democracy: Special Reference to Developing Countries
Chair: Prof. Himanshu Bourai
13-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E - RC34.23 Digitalization and Democracy
Chair: Mr. Márk Stégmayer
14-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.07 Authoritarian practices and democratic decline
14-07-2025 11:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) B - RC34.15 Intersectionality and Participatory Deliberative Democracy: Building Inclusive and Equitable Participatory Spaces
Chair: Ms. Szilvia Nagy
14-07-2025 15:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) D - RC34.06 What happens after Democratic Erosion? Analyzing Post-Erosion Trajectories of Democratic Reconstruction & New Perspectives on Democratic Resilience
Chair: Prof. Marianne Kneuer
14-07-2025 15:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) D - RC34.20 Authoritarian legacies and the rise of the radical right
Chair: Dr. Anna Przybylska
14-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E - RC34.24 Dynamics of Autocratization
Chair: Prof. Dirk Lange
14-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E - RC34.09 Civic Techs and Quality of Democracy: Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies
Chair: Dr. José Veríssimo Romão Netto
15-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.13 Democratic citizenship in contemporary societies: Individual norms, policy perspectives, and educational responses
Chair: Prof. Frank Reichert
15-07-2025 11:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) B - RC34.16 Participation in the 21st Century City: Buenos Aires, Lyon, New York, and São Paulo
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Goldfrank
15-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E - RC34.18 From Trump to Modi: Interrogating the Rise of New Nationalisms, Authoritarianism and Populism
Chair: Mr. Md Aftab Alam
16-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.10 Strengthening Democracy through Education
Chair: Prof. Leif Kalev
16-07-2025 09:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) A - RC34.05 Political Inequality in Contemporary Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Questions of Measurement.
16-07-2025 11:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) B - RC34.21 Rethinking Democracy in Times of Global Crisis
Chair: Dr. Victor Victor Sanchez-Mazas
16-07-2025 11:00 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) B - RC34.02 Democratic Resilience: Institutions and Strategies
Chair: Prof. Marianne Kneuer
16-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E - RC34.12 Different factors that result in (or prevent) democracy backsliding
Chair: Dr. Jou Fei Huang
16-07-2025 17:30 UTC+9 (1 hour 45 minutes) E