Programs

SNF Agora Courses

Course Fall 2020, T 1:30-3:30pm This class will focus on what research teaches us about how to design a plurality of spaces that enable both deliberative and participatory democracy. SOUL: Designing Problem-Solving Spaces for Democracy
- Hahrie Han
Course Fall 2020, TTh 4:30-5:45PM We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. Intermediate Data-Analysis for Social Science & Public Policy 2
- Bryce Corrigan
Course Fall 2020, M 1:30-4:00PM This course will examine the long history of women’s voting rights in the United States. History Research Lab: Histories of Women and the Vote
- Martha S. Jones
Course Fall 2020, T 12:00-2:00PM This course explores the practice of writing and reading the history of African Americans and the wider African Diaspora. The Black World
- Martha S. Jones
Course Fall 2020, TTH 1:30-2:45PM In this course, taught by a veteran journalist, we will discuss the evolution of news and examine the current challenges. Getting to Truth: How to Navigate Today’s Media Jungle
- Scott Shane
Course Fall 2020, TTh 4:30-5:45PM We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. Intermediate Data-Analysis for Social and Policy Analysis 1
- Bryce Corrigan
Course Fall 2020, TTH 10:00-11:00am This course will examine Russia’s pioneering influence operation in the American presidential election of 2016, its impact and its implications for democracy. SOUL: Russia, 2016 & the Future of Information Warfare
- Scott Shane
Course Fall 2020, TTh 10:30-11:45AM This course covers enduring debates about the way the Constitution has structured the U.S. government. American Constitutional Law
- Emily Zackin
Course Fall 2020, TTh 9:00-10:15AM What role does scientific expertise play (or not play) in American democracy? What role should scientific expertise play (or not play) in American democracy? Science and Democracy
- Adam Seth Levine
Course Fall 2020, TTh 12:00-1:15PM Topics include campaigns, voting behavior, election administration, money in politics, presidential nomination, and party coalitions. Parties and Elections in America
- Daniel Schlozman
Course Fall 2020, W 1:30-4:00PM Business, Finance, and Government in East Asia explores the dynamics of East Asia's economic growth (and crises) over the last fifty years. Business, Finance, and Government in E. Asia
Course Fall 2020, Th 1:30-4:00PM In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States. Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States
- Vesla Weaver
Course Fall 2020, TTh 4:30-5:45PM What are the purposes of conversation, and how do we navigate these purposes? Theory of Conversation
- CJ Higgins
Course Fall 2020, MW 1:30-2:45PM This course will explore the dynamics and interplay between social entrepreneurship, social change, and policy. Social Entrepreneurship, Policy, and Systems Change
- Scott Warren
Course Fall 2020, M 1:30-4:00PM This course will take you from Russia to South Asia, Europe to the US, to analyze how our information environment has been transformed. This is Not Propaganda
- Peter Pomerantsev
Course Spring 2020, M 4:30-7:00PM In this course, we explore the nature of populism Populism and Politics
- Yascha Mounk
Course Spring 2021, Th 9:00-10:15am This course will examine the consequences of party polarization for public policy and governance, and what if anything should be done about it. Political Polarization
- Steven Teles
Course Spring 2021, TTh 4:30-5:45PM This course will help students to ask their own questions about political systems by examining a variety of quantitative measures of facets of democracy. Democracy by the Numbers
- Bryce Corrigan
Course Spring 2021, MWF 11:00-11:50AM This course introduces students to the philosophical foundations of democracy as well as the history of democratic revolutions, institutions, and principles. Democracy
- Anne Applebaum
- Yascha Mounk
Course Spring 2021, MWF 11:00-11:50 This course introduces students to the philosophical foundations of democracy as well as the history of democratic revolutions, institutions, and principles. Democracy
- Anne Applebaum
- Yascha Mounk
Course Spring 2021, MW 1:30-2:45PM The course will examine the intersection between social change and policy change. Social Entrepreneurship, Policy, and Systems Change
- Scott Warren
Course Spring 2021, MW 1:30-2:20PM This course will take you from Russia to South Asia, Europe to the US, to analyze how our information environment has been transformed. This is Not Propaganda
- Peter Pomerantsev
Course Spring 2021, M 1:30-4:00 PM In this course, we will study the centuries-long relationship between universities and democracy. The University in Democracy
- Ronald J. Daniels
Course Intersession 2020, M-F 4PM-7PM This course will teach students how to elevate the state of our discourse whether across the dinner table, in the classroom or on the national stage. In Search of Intelligent Debate
- Dana Wolfe
Course Intersession 2020,M-F 10AM-1PM This course will examine Russia’s pioneering influence operation in the American presidential election of 2016, its impact and its implications for democracy, including in the 2020 election. Russia, 2016 and the Future of Information Warfare
- Scott Shane
Course Intersession 2021, M-F Public protests in Hong Kong date back to British colonial rule and have evolved from the riots of the 1960s into the more recent protests of 2014 and 2019. Helping or Hindering Democracy? Media Portraits of Protests in Hong Kong.
- Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
Course Intersession 2020,M-F 11AM-2PM This course explores the history of democratic organizing. Practicing Democracy
- Hahrie Han
- Liz McKenna
Course Intersession 2021, M-F This course explores the syndrome of polarization as a unique affliction of democracies, leading to both political conflict, paralysis, and authoritarianism. Polarization and Democracy
Course Fall 2019, TH 4:30PM-5:45PM In this course we will consider conversation as a specifically political phenomenon. The Politics of Conversation
- CJ Higgins
Course Fall 2019, MW 3PM-3:50PM The course will examine the relation between economic development and political democratization under three big questions. Democracy and Development: Theory and Cases
- Sebastián Mazzuca
Course Fall 2019 In this course, we will first examine the theory of communism and the practice of Stalinism in the region; then seek to understand the tactics of dissent and the ideas behind it; and finally focus on the collapse of communism in 1989. Dictatorship, Dissidence and Democracy: Central Europe in the 20th Century
- Anne Applebaum
Course Fall 2019, T 3PM-5:30PM The course explores the reasons why democratization proceeds slowly in East Asia, and seems to be essentially decoupled from the region’s fast-paced economic gr Authoritarianism, Democracy and Economic Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar
- Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
Course Fall 2019, W 1:30PM-3:50PM In this class, we study classic and contemporary works on nationalism, drawn from multiple disciplinary and analytic traditions, in the comparative context of alternative forms of identity. Nationalism and the Politics of Identity
- Matthew Kocher
Course Spring 2019, MW 1:30PM-2:45PM This class uses tools from linguistics and cognitive science to analyze these interactions, and understand the impact of advertising on its viewers. Language and Advertising
- Kyle Rawlins
Course Spring 2019, T 1:30PM-4PM This course will use the Trump era to explore the conditions that seem to threaten the stability of the American regime. Future of American Democracy
- Robert Lieberman
Course Spring 2019, MW 1:30PM-2:45PM The American constitutional order, which was designed to operate without political parties, now has parties as divided as any in the democratic world. Political Polarization
- Steven Teles
Course Spring 2019, W 3PM-5:30PM The course will consider how public opinion is measured and interpreted in the United States Freshmen Seminar: Public Opinion and Democracy
- Stephen Morgan
Course Intersession 2019, M-F 4PM-7PM This course will teach students how to elevate the state of our discourse – whether across the dinner table, in the classroom or on the national stage. In Search of Intelligent Debate
- Dana Wolfe
Course Intersession 2019, M-F 1PM-4PM This course explores the history of democracy, different theories of democratic breakdown and explores how democracies die around the world today. How Democracies Die
- Daniel Ziblatt

Warning: Unsupported Browser

Your browser is old and unsupported. You may still use the site, but functionality will be limited and you may see errors. Please consider updating your browser.