Public lecture

Press release — 29 August 2012

 

Professor Andrey Y. Melville from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow will give a public lecture entitled

HOW DO TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY GET STUCK AND WHERE?
(announcement .pdf)

on 12 September 2012, 14.15-15.45, Faculty of the Social Sciences and Education (Lossi 36), room 214

 

How to explain the great variety of regime-change outcomes of the last decades – ranging from new democracies to different hybrid regimes and new autocracies? Why did some countries attempt to democratize and others did not? Why did so many transitions fail to develop into democratization? Which factors are responsible for transitions that got stuck, deviated from the expected “route” or just failed – absence of adequate preconditions for democracy or inadequate particular policies of the key political actors?

Andrey Melville is Dean of the Faculty of Politics at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. In the past, he served as the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Vice-Rector at MGIMO-University, Moscow and as visiting professor at Berkeley University, Stanford University Overseas Program (in Moscow) and Bergen University. His main research interests include comparative democratization and comparative authoritarianism. He is the author of 250 articles, chapters and monographs. His recent publications include the Political Atlas of the Modern World (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

The lecture is organized by the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu.