鈥淲hat Comes Next? Assessing a Year of Elections鈥�
Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 聽5:00 - 7:00 PM |聽Corcoran Commons,聽Heights Room | Please to attend
available for virtual attendees.
2024 has been a momentous year for democracy, in the US and around the world. Many of the countries voting this year鈥揗exico, India, South Africa, France, Iran, the UK and the US, to name but a few鈥揻ace major challenges and stand at a crossroads of their historical trajectories. In some, the very nature of the democratic system -- from political norms to institutional checks and balances -- is at stake.
To reflect on this pivotal year, and consider what it means for the future of democracy worldwide, the Clough Center is pleased to present 鈥淲hat Comes Next? Assessing a Year of Elections.鈥� Meeting just days after the U.S. presidential election, this event will bring together three leading scholars of contemporary party politics to share their insights with the wider 51茶馆 community. In-house expert David Hopkins (51茶馆) will offer an incisive analysis of the U.S. elections results (such as we know them at the time), while (Barnard) and (NYU) will contextualize them in a broader global perspective, with Clough Center director Jonathan Laurence serving as moderator. After their presentations, there will be ample time for conversation together. Please join us on November 7th to take stock of all that happened in 2024 and consider 鈥渨hat comes next鈥� for global democracy.
Speakers
Sheri Berman
is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics, the development of democracy, populism and fascism, and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX. She has given a number of public-facing interviews for both podcasts and the radio, as well as presented a talk for TedxNewYork entitled 鈥� Her first book, (Oxford University Press, 2019), traces the long history of democracy in Europe from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. She is currently working on a book entitled The Political Consequences of Economic Ideas: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Fate of Democracy. Professor Berman earned her B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and her M.A and Ph.D in Government from Harvard University.
David A. Hopkins
David A. Hopkins is associate professor of political science at Boston College, where he has taught since 2010. His latest book, (Cambridge University Press, 2024) co-authored with Matt Grossmann of Michigan State University, examines how the growing political divide between college-educated and diploma-lacking Americans is transforming the constituencies, policy priorities, governing styles, and institutional alignments of the two major parties. Professor Hopkins is the author or co-author of three other books on American politics: ; (Oxford University Press, 2016), co-authored with Matt Grossmann; and ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2024), co-authored with Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron Wildavsky, and Steven E. Schier, a leading text on American presidential campaigns and elections. Professor Hopkins has regularly written about contemporary political issues for news publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, and Bloomberg Opinion. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rahsaan Maxwell
is Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. His research focuses on a range of issues related to diversity, political behavior, national boundaries and immigration, with a particular concentration on Western Europe. Prof. Maxwell is the author of (Cambridge, 2012), and the editor, with Teri Givens, of (Lynne Rienner, 2012). Alongside his many academic articles, he is an active commentator on these issues in the public sphere. He is currently at work on a new book investigating pro-immigration attitudes in Western Europe.
Lauren Honig
Lauren Honig聽is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College, whose research and teaching focus on comparative politics and the political economy of development in African countries. She is particularly interested in the politics of property rights; the roles of informal and customary institutions; natural resource politics; and state-citizen linkages. Several of her current research projects examine land rights and plural systems of authority. This includes her book,聽聽How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal聽(2022, Cambridge University Press). Her research has been published in聽Perspectives on Politics, African Affairs, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Democratization, the Journal of Politics,听补苍诲听World Development. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Fulbright Council, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), among others.
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