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Public Opinion on Democracy and Democratic Decline
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What do the public’s attitudes and opinions tell us about the state of democracy around the world? How are democratic institutions supported or undermined by shifts in public opinion?
Nicholas Kerr (University of Florida) and Vera Messing (Hun-REN Centre for Social Research and Visiting Scholar at the Korbel School) share insights from their studies in Africa and Europe respectively to shed light on timely topics such as anti-immigrant sentiment, public trust in elections, and the social roots of political polarization.
This event is open to all and will end with a Q&A with the speakers.
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Sie Complex 1020 | The Forum
2199 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80208, United States
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Rachel Sigman
Rachel Sigman is an Associate Professor of Democratic Governance at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. She is also a project manager with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project based at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and conducts research on government performance in Africa and beyond.
Her first book, Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa (Cambridge University Press 2023), explains how political party institutions mediate the relationship between political financing and state politicization in Africa. Her current book project examines bureaucratic responses to democratic backsliding. She has also worked on projects related to the measurement of state capacity and exclusion, the effects of oil revenue on bureaucratic institutions, the relationship between distributional inequality and autocratization, and civil-military relations (including military coups and international security sector assistance) in Africa.
Nicholas Kerr
University of Florida
Nicholas Kerr is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and an expert in electoral institutions and democratization with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. His recent book, Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa (Oxford University Press) explains how election commissions shape the strategic behavior and attitudes of African elites and citizens.
Vera Messing
Hun-REN Centre for Social Research and Visiting Scholar at the Korbel School
Vera Messing is Research Professor at the Institute of Sociology, HUN-REN Centre of Social Research, a research fellow at the at the Central European University’s Democracy Institute, and currently a visiting scholar at the Korbel School. She has extensive experience in empirical research on ethnicity, minorities, migration, social exclusion, media representation of vulnerable groups and ethnic conflicts, including as a lead researcher Hungarian team of the European Social Survey. She has published widely in academic journals and regularly consults for domestic civil and governmental institutions on issues of employment and education of vulnerable groups.
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