Beyond
A selection of research centres and projects dedicated to the study of democracy from historical and other perspectives
At Oxford
Comparative Politics/Presidentialism, https://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/research-clusters/comparative-politics
History of Parliaments in Latin America, https://latinamericanparliamenthistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Politics and Government Network, https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/pillar/comparative-politics-and-government
Quill Project, https://www.quill.pmb.ox.ac.uk/
Re-Imagining Democracy: Re-imagining Democracy
Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700, https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/recovering-europes-parliamentary-culture-1500-1700#/
Further afield
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute, https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/democracy
Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania, https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, University of Harvard, https://ash.harvard.edu/
Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville, https://louisville.edu/asiandemocracy
Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University, https://www.uvu.edu/ccs/
Center for Critical Democracy Studies, American University in Paris, https://www.aup.edu/academics/research-centers/center-critical-democracy-studies
Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University, https://government.georgetown.edu/democracy-and-governance/research-and-partnerships/
Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, University of California – Berkeley, https://cdtr.berkeley.edu/
Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity, Carnegie Mellon University, https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/
Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions’, University of California – Los Angeles, http://www.clafi.ucla.edu/
Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg, https://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/zdemo-english.html
Center for the Study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel et al., https://www.researchcenterdesire.eu/
Center for the Study of Democracy, St Mary’s College of Maryland, https://www.smcm.edu/democracy/
Center for the Study of Democracy, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, https://english.swps.pl/2727-center-for-the-study-of-democracy
Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy, Northwestern University, https://csdd.northwestern.edu/
Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California – Santa Barbara, https://labor.history.ucsb.edu/
Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/
Centre de Recherche sur la Démocratie et le Développement en Afrique, Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, https://ulpgl.net/nos_centres/credda/#:~:text=Centre%20de%20Recherche%20sur%20la,dynamique%20de%20la%20soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20humaine
Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires, Démocratie, Institutions, Subjectivité, Université catholique de Louvain, https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/iacchos/cridis
Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich, https://c2d.ch/
Centre for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds, https://cde.leeds.ac.uk/
Centre for Democratic Futures, University of Southampton, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/index.page
Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society, Queen Mary University of London, https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/research/research-centres/society-democracy-humanities/centre-for-law-democracy-and-society/
Centre for Political Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, https://soc.kuleuven.be/centre-for-political-research
Centre for Studies in Democratisation, University of Warwick, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/csd/
Centre for Studies of Democracy, Civil Society and Political Elites, Collegium Civitas, https://civitas.edu.pl/en/research/centre-for-studies-of-democracy-civil-society-and-political-elites-en
Centre for the Future of Democracy, University of Cambridge, https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/research-projects/centre-future-democracy/
Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen’s University, https://www.queensu.ca/research/centres-institutes/centre-study-democracy-and-diversity
Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centre-for-the-study-of-democracy
Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, University of Montréal et al., https://csdc-cecd.ca/
Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths University of London, https://www.gold.ac.uk/global-media-democracy/about-us/
Centre for the Study of Liberal Democracy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, https://csld.wisc.edu/
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas em Democracia, Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, https://www.pucrs.br/cbpd/apresentacao/
Centro de Estudos em Democracia Ambiental, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, https://www.democraciaambiental.ufscar.br/
Centro de Investigación para la Democracia, Universidad de Oriente, https://cidemo-elsalvador.org/nosotros/
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Democracia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia et al., https://www.cihde.org/
Centro di ricerca su Democrazia e Governance Globale, Università di Trento, https://www.sociologia.unitn.it/152/centro-di-ricerca-su-democrazia-e-governance-globale-demoglob
Centro di Studi su Ragion di Stato e Democrazia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, http://www.ragionidistato.it/
Centro per lo studio della democrazia e dei mutamenti politici, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, https://www.polidemos.it/
Centro Studi sulla democrazia liberale, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, https://www.iulm.it/it/ricerca/centri-studi/centro-per-lo-studio-della-democrazia-liberale/centro-studi-sulla-democrazia-liberale
Chicago Center on Democracy, University of Chicago, https://democracy.uchicago.edu/
Constitution Unit, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/
Democracia e Desigualdade, Universidade de Brasília, https://www.demodeunb.com/
Democracia e Justiça, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, https://grupomargemufmg.wordpress.com/quem-somos/o-grupo/
Democracia, Cidadania e Direito, Universidade de Coimbra, https://ces.uc.pt/pt/ces/nucleos/decide/apresentacao
Democracy and Elections Centre, Royal Holloway University of London, https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/politics-and-international-relations/research/our-research-areas/democracy-and-elections-centre/
Democracy in History, Central European University, https://democracyinhistory-di.org/
Democracy in the 21st century, European University Institute, https://www.eui.eu/research-hub?id=transnational-democracy-in-the-21st-century
Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia, https://democracyinitiative.virginia.edu/
Democracy under threat, University of Glasgow, https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/democracyresearch/
Democracy, Freedom and Boundaries, University of Oslo, https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/research/groups/democracy-freedom-and-boundaries/index.html
Democratic Audit, London School of Economics, https://www.democraticaudit.com/about/
Démocratie, Université de Liège, https://www.democratie.uliege.be/cms/c_4315916/fr/democratie
Giving Voice to Digital Democracies, University of Cambridge, https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/projects-centres/giving-voice-to-digital-democracies/
Governance, leadership and democracy, King’s College London, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/governance-leadership-and-democracy
History of Human Rights and Democracy, University of Vienna, https://fsp-democracy-humanrights.univie.ac.at/en/
Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town, http://www.idcppa.uct.ac.za/IDAhome
Institutions for Open Societies, Utrecht University https://www.uu.nl/en/research/institutions-for-open-societies
Instituto da Democracia e da Democratização da Comunicação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais et al., https://www.institutodademocracia.org/o-instituto
Instituto de Estudios de la Democracia, Fundación Universitaria San Pablo, https://institutodemocracia.ceu.es/conocenos/presentacion/
Instituto Milenio para la Investigación en Violencia y Democracia, Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, https://viodemos.cl/
International Center on Democracies and Democratizations’, Libera Università degli Studi Sociali, http://icedd.luiss.it/
Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California – Irvine, https://www.democracy.uci.edu/
Journalism and Democracy Research Group, University of Cardiff, https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/explore/research-units/journalism-and-democracy-research-group
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri, https://democracy.missouri.edu/
Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse, University of St Andrews, https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/research-projects/knowledge-democracy-public-discourse/
Laboratorio de estudios sobre Democracia y Autoritarismo, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, https://www.unsam.edu.ar/leda/quienes-somos.php
Laboratório de Pesquisas sobre Ação Pública para o Desenvolvimento Democrático, Universidade de Brasília, https://www.desenvolvimentodemocratico.org/
Macmillan Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Yale University, https://ycri.yale.edu/
National Institute of American History & Democracy, College of William & Mary, https://www.wm.edu/as/niahd/
Núcleo de Estudos sobre Democracia e Desigualdades, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, https://www.ufsm.br/grupos/nedd
Participação, Democracia e Políticas Públicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, https://www.fclar.unesp.br/#!/pesquisa/grupos-de-pesquisa/participacao-democracia-e-politicas-publicas/
Peace & Democracy Institute, Korea University, http://pdi.or.kr/eng/
Political engagement hub, University of Sheffield, https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/research/history/themes/political-engag...
Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics, University of Groningen, https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/democratic-cultures-and-politics/?lang=en
Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy, University of Nottingham, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/represent/index.aspx
Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, Notre Dame University, https://rooneycenter.nd.edu/
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, The New School, https://www.newschool.edu/centers-institutes-labs/transregional-center-d...
Varieties of Democracy, Lund University, https://v-dem.net/
Voting Rights Project, University of California – Los Angeles, https://latino.ucla.edu/votingrights/
Voting Technology Project, California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, https://www.vote.caltech.edu/about
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan, https://ii.umich.edu/wced
World History of Democracy, Steven Muhlberger, Nipissing University, World History of Democracy
