The Center for Emerging Democracies promotes engaged public interdisciplinary scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies that foster worldwide transitions from autocratic rule and the deepening of democratic governance—in the past, present, and future. The Center for Emerging Democracies has been housed in the International Institute at the University of Michigan since 2008, making us one of the world’s longest-established centers for the study and advancement of democracy.
Videos posted to our YouTube channel include educational lectures and public programs about emerging democracies.