democracy

Former Michigan Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI) and Peter Meijer (R-MI) and Amb (ret) Susan Page, Michigan Law and Ford School professor will explore the bipartisan challenge of restoring faith in o

Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist and commentator Anne Applebaum delivers the keynote lecture of the spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series, in conversation with Dean Michael S. Barr. April, 2022.

Join for a U-M Democracy & Debate signature event featuring Governor Jeb Bush in conversation with Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr. March, 2022.

Join us for Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Barton Gellman in conversation with Michigan Law Professor from Practice Barbara McQuade, as part of the spring 2022 Democracy in Crisis series.

Professor Justin Wolfer, a professor of Economics in the U-M Ford School of Public Policy, joins Professor Angela Dillard, PhD, a professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, in a discussio

This fall the University of Michigan will explore the topics of debate, civic engagement, and democracy with a special theme semester.