Participants in the two-day “Constitutional Hardball Roundtables” held in December 2019 in Cambridge, MA, was co-organized by the Bright Line Watch initiative (which is housed at CCD) and the Harvard Weatherhead Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy. From left, Ben Wittes (Brookings Institution; Harvard Law School), Sarah Longwell (Republican Voters Against Trump), Keith Whittington (Princeton), Jamie Raskin (U.S. Congress), and Gretchen Helmke (University of Rochester). |
Election Expert Launches 'Safeguarding Democracy' Project
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Election Subversion: Is American Democracy in Danger? (UCI Law’s Fair Elections and Free Speech Center)
Link to the video here
Can An Anti-Trump Republican Win a Primary? (FiveThirtyEight)
Link to the podcast here
Which Senators And Representatives Vote In Favor Of Democracy? (FiveThirtyEight)
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Advantage, GOP (FiveThirtyEight)
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Constitutional crises at home and abroad (University of Virginia)
Link to panel here
Discussing the decline of democracy across the globe (WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson)
Link to the radio show here
How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon and Its Allies? (New York Times)
Link to the New York Times article here
In America’s ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are The Aggressors (FiveThirtyEight)
Link to the FiveThirtyeight article here
Virtual Roundtable on the 2020 US Election (Brown University)
Link to the video here
American Democracy and the 2020 Election (University of Rochester)
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Virtual Roundtable on Voting and Electoral Manipulation (Brown University)
Link to the video here
How will Americans respond when there’s another split between the electoral college and the popular vote?
Link to the Monkey Cage article here
Drawing a Bright Line: Political science professor Gretchen Helmke monitors the state of U.S. democracy. (Rochester Review)
Link to the Rochester Review article here.
Democracy’s resilience: Is America’s democracy threatened? (The Brookings Institution)
The video is available here
Has Democracy Lost Its Appeal? (Foreign Affairs)
Link to the Foreign Affairs article here
"Survey Finds Reasons to Worry about U.S. Democracy." (Futurity)
Link to the Futurity article here
"Political Scientists Monitor Threats to US Democratic Institutions." (University of Rochester's Quadcast on Bright Line Watch)
Link to the podcast here
"Trump's Tool Kit Does Not Include the Constitution." (The New York Times Opinion on Bright Line Watch survey)
Link to the NYT article here
"America Isn't Having a Constitutional Crisis" (The Atlantic)
Link to the Atlantic article here
"Could Trump set off a constitutional crisis? Here’s what we can learn from Latin America." (The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post)
Link to the Washington Post article here
"Democracy in America: How Is It Doing?" (The New York Times article on Bright Line Watch)
Link to the New York Times here
"How you’ll know when the U.S. isn’t a democracy anymore" (The Washington Post article on Bright Line Watch)
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"Survey: Fraud-free elections, free speech, key to democracy" (Associated Press article on Bright Line Watch)
Link to Associated Press article here
"A Check-up for US Democracy" (Boston Globe article on Bright Line Watch)
Link to Boston Globe article here
"The scary part of an unpredictable President" (CNN Opinion on "Political Scientists' statement of concern about Donald Trump.")
Link to CNN article here
"Political scientists lay out 9 ways Donald Trump is endangering American democracy" (Business Insider article on "Political Scientists' statement of concern about Donald Trump.")
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"A group of political scientists says Trump’s attacks on our democracy are unprecedented and dangerous" (The Washington Post Opinion on "Political Scientists' statement of concern about Donald Trump.")
Link to the Washington Post article here
"La Justicia debe ser y parecer independiente" (Helmke cited by Alberto F. Garay, La Nacion 2016)
Link to op-ed here.
"Why Rousseff's impeachment battle is bad for Brazil - but could be good for democracy" (Commentary, Reuters 2016)
Link to op-ed here.
"Motive is not what you think" (with Bonnie Meguid, CNN Commentary on Compulsory Voting 2015)
Link to CNN article here.
"Ya se percibe en la Justicia el clima de transición política" (Helmke cited by Hernán Cappiello and Paz Rodríguez Niell, La Nacion 2014)
Link to op-ed here.