Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) | U-M LSA Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED)

Ten Years at the Weiser Centers WCEE and WCED celebrate 10th anniversary in 2018-19

Apply Now! WCED Postdoc Deadline for 2019-21 fellowship is January 15, 2019

About WCED The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies promotes scholarship to better understand the broad historical, political, economic, and societal conditions under which democracies emerge—and autocracies endure.

NGO Leadership Workshop The NGO Leadership Workshop strengthens civil society in new democracies by providing management training to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Student Initiatives WCED offers funding to students who are studying emerging democracies, as well as a workshop for graduate students.

WCED Events We sponsor and co-sponsor lectures, conferences, symposia, briefings, and other events on a regular basis. Visit our Events page to see what’s coming up, or watch video of past events on our Multimedia page.

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Recent News

WCED Director Dan Slater on democracy and authoritarianism

Foreign Affairs: After Democracy

Stanford political scientist Anna Grzymala-Busse talks erosion of democracy

Michigan Daily: October 21

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The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies promotes scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies fostering transformations from authoritarian rule to democracy. Initially focusing on transitions in Europe and Eurasia, it will subsequently expand its scope to other emerging democracies across the globe.

Inaugurated in 2008, WCED works in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, which is comprised of the Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Copernicus Program in Polish Studies.

Fall 2018 Events (PDF)

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Events

Nov

CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University

4:30 PM
110 Weiser Hall

Apr

CPPS/Frankel Lecture. Space and Spirit, or How to make a Historical Atlas of Hasidism

Marcin Wodzinski, professor of Jewish history and literature, University of Wrocław.

4:00 PM
1010 Weiser Hall Weiser Hall

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