Donya Feuer (31 October 1934 – 6 November 2011) was an American dancer, choreographer and a pioneer of modern dance. She was also a theater director and filmmaker, and a long-time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman .
15-566: The V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy), founded by Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014, studies the qualities of government. The headquarters of the project is based at the department of political science, University of Gothenburg , Sweden. The V-Dem Institute publishes a number of high-profile datasets that describe qualities of different governments, annually published and publicly available for free. These datasets are used by political scientists, due to information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on
30-474: A position as choreographer and later director with the Royal Dramatic Theatre . In 1971 she met Ingmar Bergman and began an association which produced seventeen film, theater and television projects, including The Magic Flute in 1975 and Face to Face in 1976. Other collaborations included productions of Julius Caesar , King Lear and Peer Gynt . Feuer also directed The Dancer ,
45-594: A regular basis for donors in Africa . In academia beside organising and chairing numerous international conferences, panels and other activities, Lindberg was the Program Chair for the African Studies Association in 2013. He also initiated and led the collaborative research project on democratization by elections between 2007-2009 involving more than 15 renowned scholars from universities in
60-940: A series of leading journals, and has won several awards. For 2.5 years at University of Gothenburg , he was project coordinator of the Center for Data Analysis, integrating the data and online analysis facilities of the SOM Institute , the QoG Institute, the MOD Institute, the Swedish NES, the Mediabarometer. Lindberg was also in charge of the World Values Survey in Sweden at University of Gothenburg 2010-2012. Donya Feuer Feuer
75-874: Is a professor in the Department of Political Science, and member of the Board of University of Gothenburg , Sweden member of the Young Academy of Sweden , Wallenberg Academy Fellow , Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute ; and senior advisor for the Oslo Analytica. Lindberg's main research interests are comparative politics , democracy and democratization , Africa , political organizations , corruption and clientelism . Prof. Lindberg has extensive project management and data administration experience outside of academia. In 1986, at
90-583: Is built on V-Dem Democracy Core indices. Staffan I. Lindberg Staffan I. Lindberg (born 1969), is a Swedish political scientist , Principal Investigator for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and Director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. He
105-495: Is modeled as lack of commitment to democratic process, disrespect for fundamental minority rights, demonization of opponents, and acceptance of political violence. The dataset demonstrates higher autocratization for high anti-pluralism and populism. The Regimes of the World (RoW) distinguishes four types of political systems: closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies, and liberal democracies. This classification
120-610: The American Political Science Association 's Juan Linz Award for best dissertation 2005. Lindberg began his teaching career at Lund University , then worked as an assistant professor at Kent State University between 2005-2006. From 2006 until 2013 he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Florida . He has also spent two years in Ghana as parliamentary advisor, and consults on
135-649: The US and Europe. From 2006-2009 he was the co-PI of the international research consortium African Power and Politics program involving seven institutions across three continents with a budget of £3.5mn on behalf of the University of Florida . Lindberg was on the executive of APSA’s Comparative Politics Section (2011-2013), the Executive Co-Editor of APSA’s Comparative Democratization Newsletter (2012-2014), member of several scientific advisory boards, reviewer for
150-901: The age of 17, he organised the largest musical festival in Sweden, Gärdesfesten. During 1988-1990 he was one of the international lead-coordinators for the youth project Next Stop Soviet, involving the participation of 9,000 individuals from the Nordic countries and the Soviet Union in more than 350 projects. In 1987-1988 Lindberg worked as a production manager for a series of industrial films, ads, TV shows, including Sunes Jul and drama productions which included working with Donya Feuer at Kulturhuset and Royal National Theatre . Lindberg received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Lund University , Sweden . His dissertation "The power of elections : democratic participation, competition and legitimacy in Africa" won
165-542: The assistance of V-Dem indices. The Digital Society Project is a subset of indicators on V-Dem's survey which asks questions about the political status of social media and the internet. The V-Dem Institute publishes the Democracy Report that describes the state of democracy in the world, with a focus on democratization and autocratization . The Democracy Report is published annually in March. The Democracy Report,
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#1732773208892180-422: The dataset, scientific articles, and working papers are free to download on the institute’s website, which also provides interactive graphic tools. Party positions for all political parties above a vote share of 5% in 169 countries are published as V-Party Dataset by V-Dem Institute. The V-Party Dataset includes indices of Anti-Pluralism, Populism, Cultural Dimension and Economic Left-Right. The Anti-Pluralism Index
195-712: The quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other economic indicators. Compared to other measures of democracy (such as the Polity data series and Freedom House 's Freedom in the World ), the V-Dem Institute's measures of democracy are more granular and 2020 included "more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices covering 202 polities from the period of 1789–2019". Political scientist Daniel Hegedus describes V-Dem as "the most important provider of quantitative democracy data for scholarly research". The V-Dem institute also republishes 59 other indicators and several other indices which are created, in part, with
210-717: Was apprenticed to the Martha Graham Dance Company and performed in the State Department tour of Asia; in 1957 she danced in Paul Taylor 's 7 New Dances . Also in 1957, she founded the Studio for Dance with Paul Sanasardo where she worked with him as a stage partner and collaborator in choreography, and pedagogy. In the Studio for Dance, she also worked with German choreographer Pina Bausch . In 1963, Feuer relocated to Stockholm, Sweden , for
225-549: Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Samuel Kasakoff, of Russian-Jewish origin, a chemist and photographer who had immigrated to North Carolina , and Pauline Feuer, an internationally known social worker . Donya studied as a child with Nadia Chilkovski. After moving to New York she studied at the Juilliard School and with Martha Graham and Antony Tudor. After completing her studies, she
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