The Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) is part of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. CSDI aims to advance interdisciplinary, publicly-engaged research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge about innovation in democratic practice and institutions at the local, national, and international level.
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Featured Publications
Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations
This report examines the challenges of communication around local climate action—especially when policies face the spread of false information.
Harmful Hallucinations: Generative AI and Elections
This report reveals how technology threatens democratic processes like elections by enabling deception, polluting the information environment, and intensifying harassment.
Responding to Online Abuse: What We Heard from Health Communicators
The pandemic created an unprecedented demand for health communication. This workshop report summarizes insights from a range of health communicators.
Democratic Health Communications during COVID-19: A RAPID Response
This report recommends how to put health communications at the heart of democracies’ response to Covid-19.
