Alia Braley News Today

There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on. But one area where a significant share of each party finds common ground is a belief that the country is headed toward failure. Overall, 37% of registered voters say the problems are so bad that we are in danger of failing as a nation, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Fifty-six percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said we are in

In a recent poll, some Democrats and most Republicans share a sense of doom.

False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair, according to a new study.

New campus research reveals that Republicans and Democrats vastly overestimate the other parties’ willingness to compromise the upholding of democratic norms, according to Alia Braley, a campus PhD candidate in the political science department and author of the study.

As the threat to democratic norms and procedures mount, there has been an explosion of research aimed at lowering the political temperature.

The results are in! Fetzer is excited to share news of 25 interventions that can help strengthen American democracy. This work, the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, took place over the past few years in a project we co-funded with our allies to support Stanford University’s Polarization and Social Change Lab. The challenge was designed to identify ways to