Robert Schwarz

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Bertelsmann Transformation Index

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Robert Schwarz is Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI).

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Scoring with Free Elections and Civil Rights

June 13, 2018 / Robert Schwarz

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, an autocracy hosts the World Cup. Reason enough for us to uphold values such as inclusion, participation and fair play not only on the pitch but also in society as a whole. Because football and democracy have much more in common than it seems […]

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BTI Publication Triggers Fruitful Debates in Many Countries

April 19, 2018 / Robert Schwarz

The Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2018 met with a considerable response in the media in the first weeks following its publication. Most of the reactions were positive and substantive. The worrying findings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) 2018 on the state of democracy in developing countries and emerging economies did have quite an impact on […]

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Putin meets Xi. Photo by www.kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Do Strongmen Govern Better?

March 22, 2018 / Robert Schwarz

In many developing and transition countries, people are looking for simple solutions and flirt with authoritarianism. This trend will have dire consequences because autocracies are hopelessly inferior to democracies in the long term. Within just a few days, the leaders of the two most influential autocracies, China and Russia, have set the course for continuity […]

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Olympic flag and South Korean flag. Photo by Anja Johnson via Wikimedia Commons.

Peaceful Olympics amid Thawing Tensions

February 08, 2018 / Robert Schwarz

On 9 February the Pyeongchang Olympics will be opened. This means that South Korea will be the first country examined by the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) to host both summer and winter games. We fact-check the 2018 Olympics through the looking glass of selected criteria and indicators of our index, which will be published in […]

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Effects of Good Government in the city, Painting by Ambrogio Lorenzetti/Google Art Project, via wikimedia.org, public domain

For a Comprehensive and Credible Governance Measurement in the SDGs

September 19, 2017 / Robert Schwarz

What is the significance of good governance in national reporting on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? And are the UN member states prepared to use independent governance indicators in their reports? Representatives of governments, civil society and the private sector discussed this issue in Oslo in September 2017 at the invitation of the UNDP. The current […]

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Dr. José Ramos-Horta, by Presidency Maldives, via flickr.com, CC BY-NC 2.0

“I Enjoy Sitting down with Common People”

August 17, 2017 / Robert Schwarz

BTI Blog spoke with José Ramos-Horta, former president of Timor-Leste and co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, about the state of democracy in the country, socioeconomic challenges for the new government, and the role of the international community in post-conflict societies. BTI Blog: Timor-Leste has elected a new parliament on July 22nd, for the […]

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