Democratize is an interdisciplinary research group in democratization, bringing together scholars from History, International Relations, European Studies, and Political Science who share an understanding of democratization as a dynamic and fragile process that is never quite fully completed.
Exploring democracies and democratization processes across time and space, the group’s researchers study:
how democracies come about, historically and contemporaneously.
how and why democracies consolidate and what keeps them resilient (i.e political culture, civil society).
concepts of democracy across time and space.
democratic practices (petitioning; voting).
the international context of democratization (colonialism; contemporary democracy promotion; the role of alternative norms providers).
how democracies erode as a result foreign interference, the rise of radical parties, populism, nationalism.
