The Anxieties of Democracy program’s Working Group on Climate Change seeks to make the study of climate change a distinct and recognized area of study in the social sciences.

The working group on Institutions addresses concerns about the performance and legitimacy of representative political institutions.

Distinctive national institutions and politics filter economic shifts, and this working group seeks to understand how politics, the economy, and civil society intertwine to set the stage for a future settlement that may be different from country to country.

The Anxieties of Democracy program promotes scholarship on the politics of immigration, with a particular focus on Latinx immigration to the United States during the contemporary period.

The Anxieties of Democracy program is collaborating with Cambridge University Press to publish a series of edited volumes. The Anxieties of Democracy series features work from scholars involved in the program’s working groups and partnerships, and covers topics ranging from the performance of American governing institutions to the politics of economic insecurity.

The working group on the Politics of Security considers these issues and more, probing the repertoire of institutions and ideas that democracies use to deal with threats. In the course of this work, the group addresses a range of issues, including population movements, war, terror, and tensions of security and privacy.

Democratic Erosion is a unique experiment in collaborative pedagogy and learning; the students in the initiative contribute to an undergraduate-written blog, and this term the initiative is also producing a report for USAID.

The Democracy Papers highlight and summarize new research presented at conferences and workshops related to the Anxieties of Democracy program.

The Identity, Community, and Participation working group focuses on how identity and community influence political participation in the United States.