Rokkan symposium 2026
This year's Rokkan symposium will analyse today's threats against democracy and our democracies' resistance to external and internal threats. This year's Rokkan Memorial Lecturer Steven Levitsky will start the symposium with a presentation on democratic resilience among the Third Wave democracies. Following professor Levitsky colleagues at the Deparatment of Comparative Politics will present on different challenges and opportunities that our democracies face.
Main content
Program
09:00-09:05: Welcome and introduction of the particiipants
09:05-09:50: Professor Steven Levitsky: The resilience of Democracy's Third Wave
Short Break
10:00-10:50:
Jonas Linde: The Paradox of Representation: The Populist Radical Right and Liberal Democracy
Yvette Peters: Rallying Around the Hierarchy. How a Shrinking Minority Overcrowds the Political Space
Short Break
11:00-11:50:
Erick Alvarez-Barreno: Democracy in Action: The Transformative Role of Participatory Governance
Welat Vestrheim: Electoral Uncertainty and State Repression: Evidence from Turkey
11:50-12:00 Closing remarks
