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On 27 December 2024, the Centre for studies in Democratisation held a roundtable discussion titled "American Democracy: Saved or Doomed?"- A roundtable on the 2024 US elections outcome. This discussion was chaired by Michael Saward and featured Trevor McCrisken, Joe Haigh and Jessica Underwood from PAIS.

The audio recording and some responses to this event are available here.

On 6-7 July, 2023, "Rethinking Democracy Today" was held as a two part, half day online seminar, bringing together researchers from the University of Warwick and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. The event included a range of perspectives on the meanings, status and challenges of democracy today. This seminar also enabled the two institutions to clarify the potential for further events on this theme along with potential work for further events on this theme.

You can find out more about the contents of the seminar and the key takeaways here.

On 7 December, 2022, the Centre hosted a special roundtable discussion on ‘Populism: challenges and responses’, featuring Ozlem Atikcan (Warwick), Soraya Hamdaoui (Warwick), and Simon Tormey (University of Bristol). The event was chaired by Michael Saward (Warwick). This was a re-launch event for the PAIS Centre for Studies of Democratization.

Three doctoral candidates at the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick wrote short comments after the event, which you can read here.