APSA Annual Meeting

Democracy and Its Discontents: The Failing Politics of Climate Adaptation Modern democracies face few, if any, more urgent and serious challenges than climate change. How can and should democracies properly respond? Most work focuses on […]

Race, Class, and the Space for Local Democracy: New Views, New Voices This Roundtable responds to the 2018 conference theme “Democracy and Its Discontents” and its contention that “these are challenging times for democracy.” This […]

Democracy and Its Discontents in the Middle East The enthusiasm for the possibility of democratic change in the Middle East generated by the 2011 Arab uprisings has long since given way to the grim recognition […]

The Liberal Order Under Stress The liberal model of organizing politics and society is under stress, both internationally and domestically. Rising powers dispute the liberal international order for being dominated by and biased towards the […]

Elites, Political Parties, and Democracy’s Discontents From the Occupy Movement and its slogan of the 1%, to Brexit voters having had ‘enough with experts’, and Trump’s call to ‘drain the swamp’, recent discontent with democracy […]

The Resilience and Erosion of Democracy How do democracies survive? When do they erode, and how? When democracies collapse by military coup, the change in regime is sudden and stark. But when democracies erode, the […]

Theorizing Democratic Participation: Populist Perils and Deliberative Promises In a time of democratic discontents, this panel proposes multiple lenses for theorizing democratic participation, both the perils of participation fueled by populism and the promises of […]