SYNOPSIS

The Speaker will discuss an empirical research carried out during last decades and reviews the present knowledge about the factors and actors of a successful transition to democracy and those of a failing one. During the webinar the main five different approaches to transitions will be illustrated including the main obstacles to success. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Leonardo Morlino is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at LUISS, Rome. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than 45 books and author or co-author of more than 230 journal essays and book chapters, published in English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese, Mongolian, and Japanese. His most recent books include: Equality, Freedom, and Democracy. Europe After the Great Recession (Oxford UP, 2020), Comparison. An Methodological Introduction for the Social Sciences (Barbara Budrich, 2018), The Impact of Economic Crisis on South European Democracies (Palgrave, 2017), The quality of Democracy in Latin America (IDEA, 2016), in addition to being one of the three co-editors of the Handbook of Political Science (3 voll., Sage Publications, 2020).

VENUE AND TIME

• Zoom Webinar
• April 5, 2022
• 17:45 (Nur-Sultan time)

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