by kkromash | Jun 15, 2020
To the Chicago Center on Democracy community: I would like to reach out to you to share a few of my thoughts, given the past few weeks’ whirlwind of protests, news coverage, and conversations sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and other...
by kkromash | Apr 24, 2020
Bright Line Watch, an initiative housed at the Chicago Center on Democracy, has released a new report, based on its most recent survey of political scientists and a representative sample of the United States, conducted March 12 – April 15, 2020. The survey...
by kkromash | Apr 16, 2020
A paper by Susan Stokes, the Chicago Center on Democracy’s Faculty Director, was referenced in a New York Times opinion piece by Thomas Edsall on April 15, 2020. The paper, Beyond Opportunity Costs: Campaign Messages, Anger and Turnout among the Unemployed, was...
by kkromash | Jan 22, 2020
Susan Stokes, faculty chair of the Chicago Center on Democracy, has co-authored a new essay in The Wilson Quarterly on the rise of mass protests over the past decade. She and her co-author, S. Erdem Aytaç, describe the mass demonstrations that have taken place across...
by kkromash | Jan 16, 2020
In January 2020, the Chicago Center on Democracy won a $220,000 grant from the United Nations Democracy Fund to embark upon a two-year project to develop a set of publicly available tools that will shed light on key areas of democratic functioning. The United Nations...
by kkromash | Nov 25, 2019
The Chicago Center on Democracy brought a panel of esteemed scholars together on November 22nd, 2019, to discuss the comparative politics of impeachment. Participating in the conversation were Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq, professors of Law at the University of Chicago,...
