Stakes of Democracy

Crises are key events for examining and understanding what is at stake in democracy, they are events where what we stand to lose if democratic procedures fail is articulated and made tangible. They show us the stakes of democracy. Stakes of Democracy is formed around three such vital stakes: trust, nature, and value. These three stakes are simultaneously analytical categories that conceptually and methodologically guide our empirical research. Stakes of Democracy is organized as a research group across the humanities, social sciences, and law. The research group will develop the analytic lens of democracy and the crisis of trust, nature, and value through building a Nordic-based network of mid-career and younger scholars. Researcher- and PhD-training is one of the means to build a democracy-research platform of engagement and excellence across the social sciences, humanities, and law.