The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS)

 

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies fosters an interdisciplinary approach to questions of democracy. Purposely aligned with AUP’s liberal arts curriculum, the Center encourages all fields from the natural and environmental sciences to the social sciences and humanities to explore democracy as a social state, a political regime, or a form of agency. Center-sponsored research is global, inter- and trans-disciplinary. The Center has been part of D.RadOppAttune, and CO3, multinational Horizon Europe projects supported by the EU research & innovation program. It publishes The Tocqueville Review/La Revue TocquevilleAnalyse & Kritik and “Tocqueville21”, and organizes conferences and events around key themes of democracy’s past, present, and future. The Center sponsors scholars-in-residence to give talks, and pedagogy seminars for faculty and student workshops. It develops pedagogical initiatives designed to foster critical thinking on the history, theory, and practice of democracy.