The focus of the Democracy theme, led by the Director of IHSS (2019-2022) Professor Simon Reid-Henry, was on three programmes of work running from 2018 to 2020. The aim was to encourage cross-disciplinary engagement within and across each of these three categories, with a view to developing future work on democracy across the Faculty. Events shone a spotlight on both the tensions and possibilities of democratic politics from historical, comparative and theoretical perspectives.
The three Democracy sub-themes were: