• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Prof. Giovanni Capoccia (Department of Politics and IR, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The International Context of Democratic Backsliding
  David Samuels (Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Identity, Partisanship, Polarization – How democratically elected politicians get away with autocratizing their country
  Dr. Elena Avramovska (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:45 - Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
  Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Isabela Mares (Yale), Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University), Susan Stokes (Chicago), Andres Uribe (Stanford), Ipek Cinar (Chicago), Lautaro Cella (Chicago), Melis Laebens (Central European University), Marcin Slarzynski (Polish Academy of Sciences), David Bateman (Cornell), Laura Jakli (Harvard), Vicente Valentim (University of Oxford), Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley), Antonis Ellinas (University of Cyprus), Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin), Michael Biggs (University of Oxford), Mihail Chiru (University of Oxford), Martin Conway (University of Oxford), Nicholas Dickinson (University of Oxford), David Doyle (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford ), Desmond King (University of Oxford), Alex Kuo (University of Oxford), Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford), Adam Smith (University of Oxford), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)