Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy

THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY at the University of Pennsylvania offers programming exploring the nature of democracy and the challenges it faces. Our YouTube channel provides a selection of lectures from past series -- including REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY, DEMOCRACY IN TROUBLE?, and STATES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- as well as audio of podcast episodes.

The Mitchell Center aims not just to promote, but to understand, democracy. Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its purposes, the Mitchell Center seeks to contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world. In addition to hosting speakers from the fields of academia, journalism, politics, and public policy, the Mitchell Center supports undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research.  It continues the legacy of the Penn Program for Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, which fostered interdisciplinary scholarship from 2007 to 2017.