Field experience and scholarly depth from across four continents. Practitioners who have worked inside democratic institutions, and researchers who have spent careers questioning them.
Professor of Political Science & Psychology · UC Irvine
One of the foremost scholars on the psychological foundations of democratic governance. Prof. Rosenberg’s research examines why ordinary citizens struggle to sustain the cognitive and emotional demands that liberal democracy places on them — and what this means for the future of democratic governance itself.
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International Expert on Human Rights, Democratic governance and the rule of law, she analyzes the relation limits between citizens and governments. Her research examines what the structural conditions of protection, exclusion, and accountability reveal about the democratic state itself — and whether the bond between citizen and government that sovereignty presupposes can hold.
Know MoreRecognised world expert in the link between corruption and democratic governance. His research examines how democratic institutions are captured, hollowed, and turned against the publics they exist to serve — and what this reveals about the fragility of democratic legitimacy itself.
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Research Associate
Artist, field coordinator, and advocate with over a decade of direct engagement and fieldwork across gender and displacement. Her research tracks what the daily experience of displacement exposes about the limits of democratic protection — and whether states that systematically fail the most exposed can sustain a credible claim to the values they profess.
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Ethnologist, anthropologist, and organizational sociologist with doctoral training spanning management, institutional behaviour, and social change. Her field research on EU migration externalisation in Serbia tracks how proxy states absorb, deflect, and reshape European border policy — and what that process exposes about the democratic accountability that outsourcing sovereignty is engineered to escape.
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Sociologist of law and transitional justice scholar with over two decades of experience bridging research, policy, and practice. Her work tracks what post-conflict societies expose about the structural limits of democratic accountability — and what the construction, deferral, and denial of reckoning in the aftermath of mass violence reveals about whether democratic institutions are built to discharge the debt they owe to those who survived them.
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