by kkromash | Apr 28, 2021
Susan Stokes, Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, has been selected as one of the next Carnegie Fellows, an award administered by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This $200,000 award will allow Stokes to develop a book, tentatively titled How Would-Be...
by kkromash | Apr 28, 2021
Susan Stokes, Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, was in the news twice this week: In a radio interview on WBUR’s “On Point” program, talking with host Meghna Chakrabarti about what recent anti-protest bills reveal about the state of U.S....
by kkromash | Mar 16, 2021
Sue Stokes, Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, spoke about referendums and political power on March 10, 2021 as part of a panel organized by the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. She addressed the question: Does direct democracy increase democratic...
by kkromash | Jan 15, 2021
During the turbulence of the last few months, faculty members connected with the Chicago Center on Democracy contributed to the public conversation about democracy in the United States. Below are some of the recent news stories. Stories that...
by kkromash | Oct 29, 2020
Two articles published today—one in the Washington Post and the other in the New Yorker—cover Bright Line Watch’s recent surveys. Bright Line Watch is a multi-university initiative, housed at the Chicago Center on Democracy, that conducts regular surveys to...
by kkromash | Oct 26, 2020
Bright Line Watch, a multi-university initiative housed at CCD to monitor the state of U.S. democracy, has produced the results of its 12th survey wave, conducted from October 5-16, 2020. Political scientists and a subset of the American public assessed the quality of...
