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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Jørgen Møller + Régis Dandoy
DESCRIPTION:The City Revisited: Urban Self-Government and European State Formation\nby Jørgen Møller \nThis lecture returns to a big\, classic question: the role of towns and cities in European state formation. In his posthumously published essay Die Stadt (The City)\, Max Weber placed the European city at the centre of European state formation. In recent years\, scholars have pursued several specific aspects of this relationship. However\, there has been no broad attempt to understand origins\, nor to analyse the consequences of urban self-government for state-building\, regime change\, and economic development and\, hence\, no attempt to appraise the wider importance of urban self-government for European state formation. Now is an auspicious time to embark on such a broad and ambitious research project. We have much better historical data than what was available to Weber; we have new methodological ways of interrogating these data; and we can draw insights from the broad\, specialized literature on urban self-government referenced above. This lecture\, which is based on a co-authored book (with Jonathan Doucette) currently under contract with OUP\, asks what\, on this basis\, we can say today about the origins\, development\, and consequences of self-governing cities in Europe? \nBio\nJørgen Møller has a PhD from the European University Institute\, Italy (2007) and is currently professor at the Department of Political Science\, Aarhus University\, Denmark and member of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences. His research interests include processes of state formation\, dynamics of democratization and democratic stability\, and comparative methodology\, all in the intersection between history and politics.\nHis work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Perspectives on Politics\, International Organization\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Democracy\, and Sociological Methods & Research and in several books with Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press and Routledge. \nInsights from missions of election observation\nby Régis Dandoy \nInternational election observation has become a well-established norm since the early 1990s. Yet the practice now faces two converging challenges. The first is technological. Methodologies designed for paper-based voting are increasingly out of step with biometric registration\, electronic and Internet voting\, and automated results systems that are often opaque\, leaving observers unable to directly inspect an election’s core mechanics. Generative AI compounds this\, flooding campaigns with synthetic media that spreads faster than it can be verified. The second is the deliberate exploitation of observation’s credibility by authoritarian regimes\, which increasingly comply with the norm not to improve integrity but to capture the legitimacy genuine observation confers. This seminar examines “fake” or politically biased observation\, i.e. missions that mimic credible monitoring while lacking independence and rigor\, issuing favorable assessments despite documented irregularities to neutralize credible findings. Drawing on field experience and documented cases\, this seminar offers a comparative perspective on both fronts: where observation methodologies have adapted to technological disruption and where structural constraints such as fake observation strategies limit that adaptation. It closes by outlining what a technology-literate methodology and effective verification mechanisms would require to meet both challenges. \nBio\nRégis Dandoy is professor of comparative politics and director for the Centre for European Studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). He is also associate researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)\, Waseda University (Japan) and the United Nations University. He holds a Jean Monnet chair on the European Union election observation missions and he participated to around twenty international election observation missions as an electoral expert\, primarily in Latin America. His main research interests and publications focus on digital democracy\, subnational elections\, electronic voting and election observation.
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