Home About Events Events at the MPIfG The events displayed here take place at the main location of the IMPRS, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Speaker: Isabela Mares How Mainstream Parties Fight Back Against Extremists: Explaining the Choice Among Strategies of Democratic Defense MPIfG Lecture Date: Jan 21, 2026 Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Isabela Mares Yale University Sign up: info@mpifg.de Isabela Mares offers a long run historical analysis of how mainstream parties attempt to curb the electoral advance of extremist competitors. [more]