Protection of Data and Anonymity
of Respondents and Communities

1. Democracy and Local Governance is an international academic research program collecting data and information on local communities and local leaders for the purpose of analyzing global processes of democratization and change.

2. The program is based on voluntary cooperation of researchers in various countries sponsored by national and international institutions.

3. The program is committed to disseminate its results and data for public use in accordance with requirements specified by participating scholars and their sponsors.

4. The instruments used are developed jointly by the collaborating researchers. The instruments are not copyrighted, but proper identification of the program and its participants is encouraged whenever these instruments are referenced or used.

5. Data files for specified countries are maintained and disseminated in accordance with provisions set by sponsoring institutions.

6. An international comparative file is constructed from the datafiles contributed by scholars entrusted by their sponsoring institutions. Scholars contributing to the international datafile are members of a consortium to manage and disseminate it.

7. The following rules are in effect to protect the anonymity of the respondents and communities in the international file:

8. The following rules apply for the access to the publicly available international data file in data archives and compute rnetworks.

9. Any attempt to use the data generated by the DLG program inviolation of the above rules are subject to public disclosure and evaluation by academic associations and institutions that have assumed responsibilities for maintaining professional, academic standards in research.

Adopted at the International Evaluative Conference in Mogilany, Poland.
September 21-25, 1995.

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Please send all questions and comments to either, Dr. Henry Teune, University of Pennsylvania or
Tatiana Iskra, Pultusk School of Humanities, Pultusk, Poland.