Michael Bernhard

Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair

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Professor Bernhard’s academic work centers on questions of democratization and development both globally and in the context of Europe. Among the issues that have figured prominently in his research agenda are the role of civil society in regime change and stability, institutional choice in new democracies, the political economy of democratic survival, the politics of memory, and the legacy of extreme forms of dictatorship. He has long been associated with the side of the Varieties of Democracy project and is responsible for its batteries on civil society and state sovereignty.