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Faculty Research

Global Challenged to Democracy Book

Title: Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience (2025)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Faculty Members/Affiliates Involved: 

  • Rachel Beatty Riedl
  • Ken Roberts
  • Thomas Pepinsky

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Title: Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance (2025)

Publisher: World Politics

Faculty Members/Affiliates Involved: 

  • Rachel Beatty Riedl
  • Ken Roberts
  • Paul Friesen

Title: Pathways of democratic backsliding, resistance, and (partial) recoveries (2024)

Publisher: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Faculty Members/Affiliates Involved: 

  • Rachel Beatty Riedl
  • Ken Roberts

Title: Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values? (2025)

Publisher: Comparative Political Studies

Faculty Affiliates Involved: 

  • David Bateman

Title: Democratic resilience: Can the United States withstand rising polarization? (2021)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Faculty Affiliates Involved:

  • Suzanne Mettler
  • Ken Roberts

Title: Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy (2025)

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Faculty Affiliates Involved:

  • Suzanne Mettler