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Spring Conference
The Rochester Conference on Democratic Norms
June 5 & 6, 2025
The Democracy Center is hosting the Rochester Conference on Democratic Norms on June 5 & 6, 2025. The conference brings together a small group of outstanding scholars to discuss the role of norms in democracies. Participants will discuss broad range of papers that foster a rich exchange about how to best measure norms, how to assess what makes certain norms “democratic,” why such norms emerge, persist, or erode, as well as which sorts of norms emerge if and when democracies backslide.
View the conference program here