How Republics Die: Rome's democratic breakdown in the first century BCE

该项目旨在利用最近关于民主崩溃和特朗普美国竞争性威权政权威胁的政治学奖学金，分析公元前50年代凯撒和庞培统治下的罗马共和国的崩溃。预期的结果包括更好地理解罗马宪政是如何以及为什么崩溃的，使用的语言和概念可以直接转移到我们自己脆弱的民主中。这将有利于各个层面的罗马历史研究，并为历史学家和政治学家提供一个独特的数据集，以分析一个有着数百年历史的民主国家是如何陷入威权统治的。

This project aims to use recent political science scholarship on democratic breakdown and the threat of a competitive authoritarian regime in Trump’s US to analyse the breakdown of the Roman Republic in the 50s BCE under Caesar and Pompey. Expected outcomes include a better understanding of how and why constitutional government collapsed in Rome, using language and concepts directly transferable to our own fragile democracy. This should benefit the study of Roman history at all levels and provide historians and political scientists with a unique dataset for analysing how a centuries-old democracy fell into authoritarian rule.