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Democratic Erosion in the US: Is It Happening?
Witness Dismissals Following the Impeachment Trial
NO MAS! Bolivian Political Crisis
Is Trump’s Acquittal by the Senate Another Step Towards Democratic Erosion?
The Impeachment Trial: An Example of American Democracy Dying
Ireland’s Three-Way Tie is a Loss for Centrism and Win for Populism: Paving the Way for Democratic Erosion
Evaluating Potential Authoritarian Threats: Is French President Emmanuel Macron a Populist Leader?
A Toll for Democracy: Why Thailand’s First Mass Shooting Should Be the Last Manifestation of Its Democratic Decay
How Mass Incarceration Threatens Democracy and Perpetuates Institutional Inequalities
Is Hungary Still a Democracy?
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Is American democracy under threat? What about democracy in the West, or the world? If democracy is under threat, what can we do about it? And if it’s not under threat, why are so many of us so worried that it is? The Democratic Erosion consortium aims to help answer these questions through a combination of research, teaching, and civic and policy engagement.
Learn more
Read a profile of the consortium’s first year in Washington Post Magazine.
Hear Professor Rob Blair talk about the motivation for the consortium and the state of American democracy with NPR’s Rhode Island affiliate.
Learn why looking abroad inspires optimism in democracy at home in Inside Higher Ed.
Listen to students reflect on their experience participating in the consortium in the Trending Globally podcast, recorded as part of our first annual Democratic Erosion conference.
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