The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship presents:

Workshop: Measuring resiliency and decline: Discussing emerging survey research on democracy and political culture in Latin America and beyond

When: January 16, 2026, (morning, time to be confirmed)
Where: Room to be confirmed, Concordia, Montréal, QC

CSDC graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty members researching democratic resilience and backsliding, populism, and democratic values and behaviours, in Latin America or in other regions, are invited to join a half-day workshop to share and discuss related works-in-progress that draw on survey methods (correlational or experimental) to examine questions related to democracy, political values, and political behaviour in Latin America and beyond.

L’atelier se tiendra à l’Université Concordia à Montréal et sera dirigé par Colin Scott (Université Concordia) et Dinorah Azpuru (Université d’État de Wichita), experte en démocratie et culture politique en Amérique latine, et ancienne coordonnatrice de recherche du Latin American Public Opinion Project.

The workshop will be held at Concordia University in Montreal and led by Colin Scott (Concordia University) and Dinorah Azpuru (Wichita State University), an expert on democracy and political culture in Latin America and former research coordinator of the Latin American Public Opinion Project.

Deadline to submit expressions of interest (title, abstract) by email to Colin Scott (colin.scott@concordia.ca): Monday, January 12th, 5pm. 

Note: CSDC members from outside Montreal are eligible for the CSDC interregional travel grant.

The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).