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Democracy Endgame Series
How Democracy Could Die in 2024, and How to Save It
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Friday, July 9th, 2021, 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
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The threats to our democracy did not end with the 2020 election. Instead, as the failed insurrection of January 6th demonstrated, our electoral institutions—the laws, norms, and structures that ensure free and fair elections and peaceful transitions of power—remain dangerously fragile. In the modern era, democracies tend to die not through military coups or violent takeovers. Instead, they are undone through nominally “legal” maneuvers that undermine and overturn elections.
But the important question is, what can we do about it? How can pro-democracy elected officials, leaders, advocates, scholars, writers, and voters defend our elections without, as Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write in the forthcoming inaugural essay for Protect Democracy’s Democracy Endgame series, “each national election feeling like a national emergency”? They argue that a two-front political strategy is required: hardening electoral guardrails while simultaneously democratizing our political institutions.
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Join Protect Democracy on July 9th, 2021 at 12:00PM EDT / 9:00AM PDT for a conversation with the co-authors of How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, and Cecilia Muñoz, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, to discuss the gravest threats to our democracy and how to save it.
This event is open to the public and on-the-record. We invite participants to raise questions during the event, or to submit them beforehand through the Zoom registration.
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Steven Levitsky
David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies
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Professor of Government at Harvard University
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Daniel Ziblatt
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University
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Director of the Transformations of Democracy group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
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Moderator
Cecilia Muñoz, Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
Cecilia is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with nearly three decades of experience in the non-profit sector and 8 years of service on President Obama’s senior team. She is a senior advisor at New America.
@cecmunoz
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This event and forthcoming essay are the first in Protect Democracy’s series The Democracy Endgame: The Grand Strategy Against Authoritarianism in the U.S., which invites the country’s leading scholars to reflect on the strategic questions central to the struggle to protect and perfect American democracy.
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