1. The various ways in which democratic politics is facing new challenges and having a difficulty to rising up to these challenges. Ben Ansell 2. Changing political cleavages across democracies around the world Amory Gethin and Clara Martínez-Toledano 3. Representation and populism Timothy Besley 4. Malfunctioning Democracy Claudio Ferraz 5. Clientelism Horacio Llareguy, Pablo Querubin and Jimmy Graham 6. Race and dealing with racial (and ethnic) cleavages in the context of building democratic institutions Ebonya Washington and Gavin Wright 7.

Digital dystopia 8. Politics and social media Ruben Enikolopov 9. The role of money (and power) in politics Matilde Bombardini 10. To be determined David Y. Yang 11. Stability of authoritarianism Georgy Egorov 12. When repression succeeds in its objectives and when it backfires (and the various tools that authoritarian and repressive governments use) Gerard Pardo i Miquel 13. Democratic possibilities in history 14.

Democracy over the Ages Toke S Aidt 15. The politics of change and critical junctures Mike Callen 16. Religion and politics Jared Rubin 17. The Political Economy of Social Norms Leonardo Bursztyn 18. Politics of the labor market 19. Cross cultural and global perspective on the empowerment of women and the political economy of gender disparities Siwan Anderson 20. Women and Modernization: It's Complicated Carissa Leanne Tudor and Dawn Langan Teele 21. Female empowerment in the longue durée Jane Humphries 22.

Great power conflict James Fearon 23. Politics and global public goods Bard Harstad 24. The political economy of identity in a globalizing world (with a particular focus on refugees and migrant flows) Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini.