The Sifting & Winnowing Foundation is hosts its annual Wisconsin Ideas Conference virtually on April 10th, 2021. The call for memos is now open. The deadline to apply early is Sunday, December 6th, or apply regular is Sunday, January 24th. Priority consideration is given to early applicants. ———– Sifting & Winnowing is an organization that …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD) announces a gift of $880,000 from the Menard family, in support of the Center’s stated mission to probe the nature and prospects of liberal democracy and its core principles, practices, and institutions. “This gift enables the CSLD to continue its effort to promote the …
Featuring a symposium on Political Leadership and an Author-Meets-Critics roundtable on Luke Sheahan’s new book, Why Associations Matter, have a look the latest volume of the Political Science Reviewer.
The third volume of S&W’s Wisconsin Ideas Conference Papers are now published. The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy provides regular support to S&W. To learn more click here.
2019 CSLD Visiting Scholar Ken McIntyre published Nomocratic Pluralism: Plural Values, Negative Liberty, and the Rule of Law this month. This book is a contribution to the ongoing conversation about value pluralism and its relation to political life. Its uniqueness lies in its insistence that the acceptance of value pluralism involves placing certain limitations on …
The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites submissions for its annual First Book Manuscript Workshop. The book selected will be the subject of a day-long conference at which each part of the manuscript will receive critical commentary from scholars with related areas of expertise. The workshop will be …
The CSLD is accepting applications for academic year 2021-2022.
The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy is proud to introduce our 2020 post-doctoral fellows. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Robert Burton and Dr. John Boersma.
Volume 44.1 of The Political Science Reviewer, a publication of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, is now available. This issue features articles written for the symposium on wit in the history of political thought.
The 2020 undergraduate essay competition is complete. This year’s essay topic was “Should Patriotism be taught at UW Madison?” From the 32 submissions, Jacob Bernstein took first place; second place went to Nils Peterson; and third place to Lucas Olsen. Honorable mention goes to Cleo Rank and Tony Mattioli. Thank you to all scholarship recipients!