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Challenges to Democracy Post-doctoral fellow Rodrigo Barrenechea

August 20, 2019
Rodrigo Barrenechea is the Challenges to Democracy Post-doctoral Fellow for 2019-2020. His research focuses on populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America. Barrenechea is working on a book manuscript that advances a typology of populist parties based on how socially polarizing they are and a theory to explain variation in this regard... Read more about Challenges to Democracy Post-doctoral fellow Rodrigo Barrenechea

New article by Bart Bonikowski on conceptions of nationhood and anti‐Muslim attitudes in Europe

June 10, 2019
Cluster co-chair Bart Bonikowski, along with co-author Kristina Bakkaer Simonsen, have a new article in the European Journal of Political Research. Titled "Is civic nationalism necessarily inclusive? Conceptions of nationhood and anti‐Muslim attitudes in Europe," the article investigates how, despite the centrality of national identity in the exclusionary discourse of the European radical right, scholars... Read more about New article by Bart Bonikowski on conceptions of nationhood and anti‐Muslim attitudes in Europe

Daniel Ziblatt interviewed in Harvard Gazette

March 27, 2019

Daniel Ziblatt was recently interviewed in the Harvard Gazette on recent events both here and abroad — and whether there is any hope for liberal democracy. From the interview:

"American democracy has resilience. But there is no question, for all the reasons we lay out in our book, we are in a very, very dangerous moment in our country’s history."

The complete interview is available...

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New York Times editorial by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

January 14, 2019

Research Cluster co-chairs Daniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitksy published an editorial on "Why Autocrats Love Emergencies" in the January 12th New York Times. From the editorial:

"Authoritarian leaders often chafe under the constraints of constitutional rule. Democratic politics is, after all, grinding work. Family businesses and army units may be ruled by fiat, but democracies...

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Challenges to Democracy to host panel discussion series

June 29, 2018
This fall, the Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy will launch a panel discussion series. Anticipated panels include democratic crises in big middle income countries, such as India, Brazil, and South Africa; and challenges to multiracial democracy.