by kkromash | Mar 13, 2023
Three centers at the University of Chicago—the Center for Effective Government, the Chicago Center on Democracy, and the Center in Paris—recently convened a group of scholars and practitioners in Paris for a set of roundtables on vulnerabilities to democracy. Those...
by kkromash | Jan 11, 2023
In an op-ed published in Project Syndicate on January 10, Susan Stokes discusses the recent attack on government buildings in Brazil: the country’s “own version of January 6” in the United States. The piece argues that: “When aspiring dictators...
by kkromash | Jan 10, 2023
Susan Stokes, Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, was recently a guest on WNYC’s “The Takeaway” radio program. On the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, this program looked at the “state of democracy here in the United...
by kkromash | Oct 31, 2022
The Chicago Center on Democracy’s Director Susan Stokes spoke on KNX radio in Los Angeles about the recent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. Her interview begins around minute 6:08: “We’re in a very violent period, a period of...
by kkromash | Sep 26, 2022
Susan Stokes, director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, recently talked with Wisconsin Public Radio about the proposed constitutional amendment in Wisconsin that would allow citizen initiatives in the state. In addition, she wrote an op-ed, “Direct democracy...
