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Center for Emerging Democracies
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Center for Emerging Democracies invites scholars to apply for 2025-27 Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Announcing the December 2024 Issue of the "Democracy and Autocracy" Newsletter
Unequal Democracies | Democracy and Autocracy Vol. 22(3).
The Center for Emerging Democracies (@umichDemocracy) promotes engaged public interdisciplinary scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies that foster worldwide transitions from autocratic rule and the deepening of democratic governance – in the past, present, and future. Emerging Democracies has been housed in the International Institute at the University of Michigan since 2008, making us one of the world’s longest-established centers for the study and advancement of democracy.

Events
Feb
25
Center for Emerging Democracies Roundtable | After 2024: Elections & Democracy
Moderator:Dan Slater, University of Michigan Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Princeton University Steve Levitsky, Harvard University Didi Kuo, Stanford University Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Feb
26
Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't
Didi Kuo, Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Respondent: Robert Mickey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Mar
18
Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture. Claims, complaints and democratization of the local state in India
Anindita Adhikari, Assistant Professor, Social Science, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
12:00 PM
Virtual
Apr
01
Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. The Social Roots of Authoritarianism
Speaker: Natalia Forrat, Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan. Respondent: Erica Frantz, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Apr
09
Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. Policing the Revolution: The Transformation of Security and Violence in Venezuela during Chavismo
Speaker: Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Respondent: Luciana Chamorro, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall