“Indignants Demonstration” by Phillipe Leroyer, licensed under CC BY 2.0
The SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program is motivated by a concern about whether the core institutions of representative democracies can capably address large problems in the public interest. The program promotes research and dialogue on a range of topics related to democratic functioning, for example asking how democracies can effectively respond to climate change, deal with challenges to national security, and address the political consequences of a changing economy.
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Event | “The Will of the People,” a workshop on understanding popular sovereignty in contemporary context, with the Institute for Futures Studies and Columbia World Projects
The Anxieties of Democracy program has initiated a new partnership with Cambridge University Press, which will publish several new titles under the banner of the “SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series.”
Democracy Papers | Rob Blair introduces “Democratic Erosion,” a miniseries of four undergraduate essays drawn from a 20+ institution collaborative course on risks to democracy in the US and abroad.
Democracy Papers | Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Sidney Verba give an authoritative overview of inequalities of political voice in the United States.
