Anxieties of Democracy

The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation

“The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation” will be a three day conference held at the IE School for Global and Public Affairs in Segovia, Spain June 24-26, 2019. The conference is organized by Team Populism, a research group based at Brigham Young University. With populist forces gaining power in several countries for the first time in years, policymakers and citizens are more concerned than ever with populism’s consequences and how we should respond. In this conference, Team Populism will explore the consequences of populism and how they are mitigated. Participants will focus on different levels of analysis, including countries …

2019 Democratic Erosion Conference

To mark the conclusion of the second year of Democratic Erosion, a student conference will be held at American University on August 28, 2019. Democratic Erosion is a cross-institutional collaborative course that aims to help students critically and systematically evaluate the risks to democracy both in the US and abroad through the lens of theory, history, and social science. The syllabus project began in 2017, and the Anxieties of Democracy program is a proud co-sponsor. You may learn more about the initiative here.

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