Last March, anti-Trump protestors forced the cancellation of a campaign rally that Donald Trump had planned at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The group that organized the protest was primarily composed of young Black and Latino as well as immigrant rights activists. Trump would later blame the cancellation on ‘loosely organized…thugs.’ But, given his Read More…

The 2016 election season has been unprecedented, to say the least. The tone of debate, and some of the ideas being expressed by one candidate in particular—especially doubts about the value of democracy itself—make this year seem like a radical departure from what has come before. In other ways, though, the actual results of this Read More…

Welcome! We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the Chicago Democracy Project (CDP) at Northwestern University Political Science. The CDP is a collaborative effort to combine the best elements of rigorous scholarship with committed membership in community affairs. Housed in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, we want to make it easier for Read More…