Frontiers of Democracy

Frontiers of Democracy is a far-reaching CEU initiative that aims to promote open debate, discussion, and exchange of ideas with a diversity of views about the nature of democracy today. Scroll down for news on upcoming and past events in the series. Click here for CEU faculty and student research related to this initiative.

http://nepszava.hu/cikk/1039109-nobel-dijas-kozgazdasz-orban-alma-ellen/ - Hungarian news portal nepszava.hu reports: There is no brake against corruption in an illiberal state, two-time Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz said in Budapest at a CEU lecture entitled “Can Illiberal Democracies Create Shared and Sustained Prosperity?" Stiglitz said that those countries where democracy is restricted can provide prosperity only for the elite and they split society in two.

Despite the Arab Spring and subsequent revolutions, which grabbed the world's attention and temporarily shook up the Middle East, democracy has not taken hold in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Professor Bo Rothstein explained his research into the lack of democracy in this region at an October 16 lecture at CEU.