The Center for Critical Democracy Studies

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The Center for Critical Democracy Studies encourages a robust, interdisciplinary study of democracy as a social state, a political regime or a form of agency. The Center also encourages publishing in the Tocqueville Review.

The Work of the Center

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 will publish The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville and will organize conferences and events around key themes of democracy's past, present and future. The Center will sponsor scholars-in-residence to give talks, pedagogy seminars for faculty and student workshops. It will develop pedagogical initiatives designed to foster critical thinking on the history, theory and practice of democracy.

Tocqueville Review

A French-American journal about the study of social change.

Center in Action

The Center hosts a variety of events, conferences and lectures.

Democracy Lab

The Democracy Lab explores key topics of contemporary democracy.

Community

The Center's Community

The Center is led by Prof. Stephen Sawyer, Prof. Cynthia Fleury and other colleagues.

Interview with Stephen Sawyer

We sat down with Center Director, Professor Stephen Sawyer to understand the academic underpinnings of creating the Center.

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