Racial Climate and Multiracial Democracy

Students will engage with broad questions of democratic health in the U.S. They will also gain direct training on original data collection. The data elements of the course focus on factors that can serve as objective indicators of access to the rights and privileges of democratic citizenship in the U.S., across time and geography. In short, students will develop their research skills while helping to build a public good - the first democracy index of the United States that accounts for subnational differences in the quality of democracy due to racial climate and institutional context.