Thank you to all who submitted for the Undergraduate Essay Competition this year. Our topic was: “Should the United States make military or national service compulsory?” Congratulations to our top 3 scholarship recipients and two honorable mentions. To view the winning essays, please visit our Undergraduate Essay Scholarship page.
The Plague, Power, & Policy: Lawmaking in a Pandemic conversation held last week is posted on our YouTube channel. Check it out!
Check out 1050 Bascom where our own Scott Mobley spoke with the Political Science podcast hosts on his journey from the naval academy to teaching at the UW. You can hear his full talk on SoundCloud, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
The 2021 Undergraduate Essay Competition submission deadline has been extended until April 9, 2021. “Should the United States make military or national service compulsory?” Submit online at: https://csld.wisc.edu/undergraduate-essay-competition/
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 …