In May 2022, DI's De- and Re-Democratization (DRD) Workgroup launched a new event series: the Rooftop Seminar, a biweekly research seminar to discuss work in progress on themes relevant to the workgroup. Coordinated by Andreas Schedler and Zsolt Enyedi, the series is a lively meeting place for colleagues working on related themes, such as political polarization, voters’ behavior, populist rule in Hungary or the crisis of survey research.

Related events:

• The Great Separation
• Abandoning Democracy in the Name of the Nation
• Intolerance in Constitutional Law across the Liberal-Illiberal Divide
• Partisan Cues: Assessing the Effects of the “Stop Soros” Campaign in Hungary’s National Consultations
• Tilting the Playing Field Through Informal Power, While Avoiding EU Scrutiny, in Hungary and Poland
• Laboratories for Social Change and Surveillance: U.S. American Public Opinion Surveys in Communist Poland
• State-Sponsored Conspiracy Theories and Democratic Decline in Hungary
• The Politicization of Core-Periphery Relations in the EU
• The Ideological Profile of the Orban Regime
• An Illiberal Left? Critical Theories and Progressive Politics in the Contemporary West
• Populism, Anti-Populism, and the Moralization of Politics
• De-Democratization and Gender in Eastern Europe
• Democratic Support and Social Solidarity in Times of Covid
• Democratic Self-Defense in Times of Autocratization
• The Electoral Effectiveness of Targeted Government Subsidies in Hungary
• New Paths to Address the Imminent Crisis of Survey Research: A Hybrid Solution
• Populist Geopolitics: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Orban Regime
• Do Voters Punish Undemocratic Policies? Evidence From a Cross National Survey on Democratic Polarization
• Reconceptualizing Political Polarization