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,...
by kkromash | Nov 15, 2019
The Chicago Center on Democracy is the home of Bright Line Watch, a multi-university initiative to monitor the state of U.S. democracy. We do this by administering a regular survey to political scientists and a representative sample of the American public about how...
by kkromash | Nov 15, 2019
Adam Przeworski, Professor of Politics at NYU, one of the world’s leading thinkers on democracy, visited University of Chicago on November 5th to participate in a conversation on the topic: “Are we in a crisis of democracy?” Susan Stokes, Faculty Chair of the Chicago...
by kkromash | Oct 29, 2019
The Chicago Center on Democracy had the privilege of organizing a summer internship for five undergraduate students this past summer. We collaborated with Brown University, such that three UChicago students and two Brown students worked as a cohort on some innovative,...
