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IPSA Workshop in Fukuoka, Japan, 11 July 2006

On July 11, the Democratic Audit of Australia hosted two panels at the 2006 International Political Science Association Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. The panels compared national experiences in using democratic audit methodology. Those presenting papers included Massimo Tommasoli from International IDEA, Ozias Tungwarara, formerly of IDEA now of AfriMAP , William Cross of the Democratic Audit of Canada, Paula Clancy of the Democratic Audit of Ireland, Peter Ronald de Souza of the Democratic Audit of South Asia, Todd Landman of the Democratic Audit of the UK and Marian Sawer of the Democratic Audit of Australia. Discussants included Henry Milner, University of Montreal and Democracy and Philip Larkin of the Democratic Audit of Australia.

The following papers were presented:

Ozias Tungwarara, 'IDEA's State of Democracy Assessment Methodology'
Todd Landman, 'From London to Ulaanbaatar: Making the State of Democracy Framework Travel'
Marian Sawer, 'The Democratic Audit of Australia: Populism vs Citizen Rights'
William Cross, 'The Canadian Democratic Audit'
Paula Clancy and Ian G. Hughes, 'Auditing Democracy in Ireland'
Peter deSouza 'The Democratic Audit of South Asia: an Auditor's Notebook'
Massimo Tommasoli, 'Democratising Democracy Assessments: the State of Democracy Methodology'
Philip Larkin, 'A comment on Landman, deSouza, and Tommasoli'

Discussing the state of democracy at IPSA, below: L to R Massimo Tommasoli (IDEA, obscured), Ozias Tungwarara (AfriMAP), Marian Sawer (Democratic Audit of Australia), Bill Cross (Democratic Audit of Canada), Paula Clancy (Democratic Audit of Ireland), Henry Milner (University of Montreal).

Below L to R Jane Bayes (California State University), Peter de Souza (Democratic Audit of South Asia), Todd Landman (Democratic Audit of UK), Massimo Tommasoli (Inernational IDEA), Philip Larkin (Democratic Audit of Australia)