What Does It Take to Sustain Democracy?
Who We Are
The Initiative combines and leverages the skills of its four core colleges and Maryland’s public, land-grant university.
Learn More
What We Do
Innovative, interdisciplinary, community-centered research, teaching, learning, and civic engagement.
Learn More
Where We Begin
We start with the hypothesis, based on research and the knowledge of our fields, that people require five capacities to participate in a healthy democracy.
Learn MoreThe process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
Maryland Democracy Initiative is a Grand Challenge Award Recipient