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2025

CEDAR Reading Group: Maryhen Morales, Illiberal Oppositions in Venezuela

18 Feb

Reflections on the Elections in Germany

26 Feb

Birmingham-Leiden first workshop on Democratic Resilience

6-7 Mar

CEDAR and Westminster Foundation for Democracy impact workshop

25 Mar

Deborah Silva do Monte, Autocratization and democratic resistance: lessons from contemporary Brazil

1 Apr

Birmingham-Leiden second workshop on Democratic Resilience

8-9 May

 

Campaigning Around the Globe

10 Jun

Community of Practice on Democratic Resilience

11-12 Jun

 2024

CEDAR reading group session on Campaign Rallies

23 Jan

Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution 

12 Feb 

How Politicians React to Anti-Corruption Investigations and Enforcement 

13 Feb 

Standing up against autocratization across political regimes 

12 Mar 

Researching and Strengthening Democratic Resilience 

8 Apr 

Authoritarianism and Urban Spaces 

30 Apr 

Political Campaigning and Party Strategies 

28 May 

Keynote roundtable: Can foreign policy of democratic states arrest the global decline of democracy? 

4 Jun

How Small Countries in Central Europe Help Answer Big Questions of Politics

26 Sept

Post-Truth Politics

2 Oct

The UK General Election

9 Oct

CEDAR Reading Group: Toby James’s Real Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach to Democracy and Democratic Theory

15 Oct

Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy

30 Oct

CEDAR Reading Group: Rachel Beatty Riedl et al, Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance

12 Nov

Reflections on the US Elections

13 Nov

CEDAR Reading Group: Deborah Silva do Monte, Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil

3 Dec 

2023

What authoritarianism is … and is not

24 Jan

Book launch: Marlies Glasius

26 Jan

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

7 Feb

What Indonesian democracy can teach the world

24 Mar

Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding

24 Apr

Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies

31 May

CEDAR Pitch to Peers: corruption, electoral commissions and use of big data

7 Jun

Unintended Consequences of Combating Corruption

13 Jun

Is democratic backsliding really happening, and if so what impact has this had on human rights and development?

16 Jun

Rethinking backsliding: Workshop

16 Jun

How well does 'resilience' apply to democracy? A systematic review

10 Oct

Researching Africa/Democracy Day

11 Oct

Reflections on recent elections in Europe

18 Oct

Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism (tandfonline.com) by Mustafa Kutlay and Ziya Öniş.

6 Nov 

State of the Parties: Perspectives on British Party Politics

22 Nov 

Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Insights from Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala

29 Nov 

The distribution of specialisation in a more or less inhospitable environment: Specialism and generalism among MPs in the UK House of Commons, 2001-2019

5 Dec 

Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and their Struggle for Survival

6 Dec 

2022 

The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil

28 Sep