Democracy's Challenges 100 Ideas

Bob Bauer is a founding Faculty Director of the Democracy Project, Professor of Practice, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law. He is a leading expert on executive power and author of The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis, co-author of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, and co-founder of a Substack devoted to executive power issues, Executive Functions. Bauer served as White House Counsel from 2009 to 2011.Richard Pildes is a founding Faculty Director of the Democracy Project and Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He is the nation's most cited scholar on election law, a leading expert on American government and democratic governance worldwide,Samuel Issacharoff is a founding Faculty Director of the Democracy Project and Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He is a leading expert on democracies and constitutions worldwide and author of Fragile Democracies: Contested Power in the Era of Constitutional Courts and Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty.