Center for Transcultural Studies

Project dan: democratic agendas network this CTS group is part of a larger group of international scholars assembled by craig calhoun (Arizona state university), dilip gaonkar (northwestern university) and charles taylor (mcgill university) for developing a long- term project entitled, democratic agendas project (project dan). Rationale and mission of this network is as follows: we can no longer harbor the illusion that there is a single true and tested path to reach, secure refine or deepen democratic societies across national and cultural differences shaped by history and contemporary conditions. Yet this need not mean abandoning democracy. It means renewing and integrating many different democratic agendas active today. Each of these involves attempts at explanation and diagnoses of democracy's current failures and partial achievements. There are multiple cultures of democracy and many roads to democracy. The objective of this project is to initiate a sustained dialogue among propon