Center for the Study of Democracy (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

The center also sponsors numerous ongoing public forums and debates and seminars on these issues, many of which are covered by the media.

The Center for the Study of Democracy also strives to better understand historic setbacks and inconsistencies in the democratization process of historic Maryland and the United States, in order to better understand how these were eventually overcome; taking lessons from history that can then be applied to study of how democracy might be more constructively furthered today.

Such notable people as former U.S. District Court judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake former state Senator J. Frank Raley Jr. and former Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer were very involved in its founding as well as being advisory board members.

The center sponsors and also directly provides many academic and also public lectures on both the historical and modern process of democratization.

The purpose of the forum is to increase understanding related to the processes that lead to constructive maintenance and enhancement of democracy from a strategic defense point of view.

The current director of the center is Dr. Antonio Ugues Jr.,[5] a professor of Political Science at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Kent Hall, home of the Center for the Study of Democracy on the campus of St. Mary's College of Maryland . [ 1 ]
"The State House", reconstruction of the original 1676 Maryland Statehouse , Maryland's first capitol and the home of the Maryland colonial assembly. Stands on the original site. Historic St. Mary's City living history area, St. Mary's City Historic District, July 2009. [ 3 ]