Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning is professor of political science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is project manager (former co-principal investigator) for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), consultant for the Global State of Democracy Indices by International IDEA, and principal investigator for the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy and the Civil Liberty Dataset.His research interests include comparative methodology and the conceptualisation, measurement, causes, and consequences of democracy and the rule of law.
He has published extensively on these issues in academic journals and books with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Routledge, and Palgrave.
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Interview with Prof. Svend-Erik Skaaning on democracy and academic freedom
Political science professor Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus University, Denmark) will be the academic keynote speaker at the high-level conference “Academic Freedom in Support of Democracy” organised by the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) in the European House...