Folk Democracy in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Mira Markham, University of Michigan
During the Second World War, Czechoslovakia’s political leaders rejected the liberal democratic system of the interwar period and sought...
Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Assistance
Dr. Peter Carroll, University of Michigan Center for Emerging Democracies, Jessica Jennings, former USAID Chief Communications Officer
In the summer of 2025, researchers from the University of Michigan’s Center for Emerging Democracies and Freedom House ran a survey...
A New World of Authoritarian Welfare?
Joseph Wong (University of Toronto), Linda Cook (Brown), Candelaria Garay (Cornell), Dorit Geva (University of Vienna)
Democracy and social welfare have long been seen as mutually reinforcing, but the connection is anything but universal or automatic. With...
When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars
Kai M. Thaler, University of California Santa Barbara (speaker), Justine Davis, University of Michigan (respondent)
What do rebels do with the state if they are able to gain control of it? Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic...
