2025
18 Feb - CEDAR Reading Group: Maryhen Morales, Illiberal Oppositions in Venezuela
26 Feb - Reflections on the Elections in Germany
6-7 March - Birmingham-Leiden first workshop on Democratic Resilience
25 March - CEDAR and Westminster Foundation for Democracy impact workshop
1 April - Deborah Silva do Monte, Autocratization and democratic resistance: lessons from contemporary Brazil
8-9 May - Birmingham-Leiden second workshop on Democratic Resilience
10 June - Campaigning Around the Globe
11-12 June - Community of Practice on Democratic Resilience
2024
23 Jan - CEDAR reading group session on Campaign Rallies
12 Feb - Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution
13 Feb - How Politicians React to Anti-Corruption Investigations and Enforcement
12 Mar - Standing up against autocratization across political regimes
8 April - Researching and Strengthening Democratic Resilience
30 April - Authoritarianism and Urban Spaces
28 May - Political Campaigning and Party Strategies
4 June - Keynote roundtable: Can foreign policy of democratic states arrest the global decline of democracy?
26 Sept - How Small Countries in Central Europe Help Answer Big Questions of Politics
2 Oct - Truth Politics
9 Oct - The UK General Election
15 Oct - CEDAR Reading Group: Toby James’s Real Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach to Democracy and Democratic Theory
30 Oct - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy
12 Nov - CEDAR Reading Group: Rachel Beatty Riedl et al., Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance
13 Nov - Reflections on the US Elections
3 Dec - CEDAR Reading Group: Deborah Silva do Monte, Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil
2023
24 Jan - What authoritarianism is … and is not
26 Jan - Book launch: Marlies Glasius
7 Jan - Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience
24 March - What Indonesian democracy can teach the world
24 April - Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding
31 May - Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies
7 June - CEDAR Pitch to Peers: corruption, electoral commissions and use of big data
13 June - Unintended Consequences of Combating Corruption
16 June - Is democratic backsliding really happening, and if so what impact has this had on human rights and development?
16 Jun - Rethinking backsliding: Workshop
10 Oct - How well does 'resilience' apply to democracy? A systematic review
11 Oct - Researching Africa/Democracy Day
18 Oct - Reflections on recent elections in Europe
6 Nov - Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism (tandfonline.com) by Mustafa Kutlay and Ziya Öniş.
22 Nov - State of the Parties: Perspectives on British Party Politics
29 Nov - Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Insights from Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala
5 Dec - The distribution of specialisation in a more or less inhospitable environment: Specialism and generalism among MPs in the UK House of Commons, 2001-2019
6 Dec - Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and their Struggle for Survival
2022
28 Sept - The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil
25 years on from Blair's Babes – what have we learned about women's representation?
