March 12: Cheng Li, Brookings Institution, on the prospects for democracy in China.26: Nicholas Carnes on class and governance in the U.S. 9: Paul Pierson on the risk of “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, and are free and open to the public. all other lectures are on Mondays, 4:30-6 p.m. The first lecture is on a Friday, 3-4:30 p.m. The lecture series receives support from the Riger-Potash Family Fund and is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality. His investigations of class and politics include “White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy,” “It’s Time to Bust the Myth: Most Trump Voters Were Not Working Class” (with Noam Lupu) and the forthcoming book “The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office – And What We Can Do About It.”ĮPL, a program of the Sage School of Philosophy, promotes interdisciplinary learning about moral questions concerning public policies, and social, political and economic processes. 26 on class and governance in the U.S., describing the extent, causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of lower-income people in American government and prospects for change. Nicholas Carnes, who teaches political science at Duke University, will speak Feb. His book “Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment” won the American Political Science Association’s 1995 prize for the best book on American national politics. His writings on American politics and public policy include “American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper” and “Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class,” both co-authored with Jacob Hacker. Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Addressing these concerns in very different ways, our six speakers will illuminate the forces shaping the fate of democracy and offer productive responses to them.” “These concerns take many forms – anger that the American political process is rigged in favor of the rich, fear of attacks on the informed discourse and mutual respect that are essential to well-functioning democracy, and worry about the endurance of one-party regimes and turns toward authoritarianism. and around the world,” said Richard Miller, EPL director and the Wyn and William Y. “The series responds to widespread anxiety about the prospects of democracy, in the U.S. He will describe how political processes and events, economic and cultural changes, and institutional frameworks currently combine to threaten democracy in the U.S., and he will suggest ways of responding to this challenge. 9 with a talk on the risk of “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. Paul Pierson from the University of California, Berkeley, begins the series Feb. All lectures are free, and the public is welcome. 9 the other lectures will begin at 4:30 p.m. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, followed by a question-and-answer period. The series features six eminent social scientists and will take place in Hollis E. These questions and more will be examined in a semesterlong series of lectures on “The Difficulty of Democracy: Challenges and Prospects,” hosted by the College of Art and Sciences’ Program on Ethics and Public Life (EPL). Is democracy in America at risk today? What are democracy’s prospects around the world?
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