What's Next for American Democracy

By Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

"As the 2024 elections approach, few questions are more fundamental than whether Democrats can build and hold together a broad multiracial and cross-class coalition."

Published in Boston Review

By Donald Moynihan

"If Mr. Trump has a chance to implement his various plans, expect a weaker American government, worse public services and the dismantling of limits on presidential power."

Published in The New York Times 

Does American democracy face dire ongoing challenges that threaten honest elections and effective government responsive to the majority? Watch this lively conversation on the future of American democracy with speakers Theda Skocpol, Keith Whittington, Chloe Thurston, and Larry Jacobs.

By Jennifer McCoy 

"The United States stands out among Western democracies for its extreme partisan political polarization. It has reached the level of 'pernicious polarization,' by which I mean a division of society into two mutually distrustful political camps that harms democracy."

Published in Democracy 

By Ray Block, Andrene Wright, and Mia Angelica Powell

"[D]espite widespread fears over the future of democracy, many people are also hopeful, and that hope translated into “voting for democracy” by shunning election result deniers at the polls."

Published in The Conversation