The Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) is a research center at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The CCRD was founded in January 2021 and is funded by Stiftung Mercator and Einstein Foundation Berlin. The CCRD is committed to promoting a robust and nuanced understanding of democracy, the conditions for a sustainable democratic life as well as processes of de-democratization and autocratization.
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The Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) was founded in January 2021 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is funded by Stiftung Mercator and Einstein Foundation Berlin. The Center’s main aim is to conduct and promote interdisciplinary and comparative research on democracy.
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