Please join us on Thursday October 9th at 5pm for an evening talk co-sponsored by the Columbia American Politics Speaker Series (CAPSS) and the Columbia World Projects (CWP) initiative, “Renewing Democratic Participation.” Located at the intersection of political behavior and political theory, this program considers how political institutions and patterns of democratic representation can contribute to an open and inclusive civic culture.
American democracy is in the midst of both an acute crisis of autocratic ascendance. But it also has been in a longer-burning chronic crisis of deep democratic dysfunction, stemming from growing inequalities, disparities of power, and failure not just of formal political institutions but also of the broader civic infrastructure that underwrites democratic vibrancy. Any revived and reconstructed democratic order that might follow will have to attend to both acute and chronic failures of democracy. What might a next democratic order look like? How should we reconsider the foundational infrastructures of democracy--from political institutions to civic organizations to informational infrastructures? And how should we think about what pathways towards transformative social change are available going forward?
Speaker
- K. Sabeel Rahman (Professor of Law, Cornell University; former Associate Administrator, OIRA)
Discussants
- Ashraf Ahmed (Professor of Law, Columbia University)
- Greg Wawro (Professor of Political Science, Columbia University)
Event Contact
Priya Kurup
- 4045795072
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