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Democracy Endgame Series
Untangling Polarization and Rebuilding Democratic Norms
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT
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American democracy is immobilized by polarization. Hostile ideological conflict heightens the stakes of every election, encourages anti-democratic behavior, gridlocks our politics, and makes implementing democracy reforms more challenging. This Gordian knot also increases the risk that politicians and citizens alike will cease to value democracy itself, opening the door wider to future authoritarians.
So how do we untangle it? How can pro-democracy reformers de-escalate brinkmanship and disincentivize polarization? What reforms are most likely to succeed in a challenging landscape? How can we build a pro-democracy political coalition to support change? In new essays for Protect Democracy’s Democracy Endgame series, Larry Diamond and Nicole Bibbins Sedaca each weigh the challenge of polarization in the United States and propose paths for cutting through the snare.
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Join Protect Democracy and American Purpose on September 15th at 12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT for a conversation with Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an editorial board member of American Purpose, and Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Executive Vice President of Freedom House and the Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute, to discuss practical paths to overcome polarization and rebuild norms.
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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Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution & Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
Stanford University
@LarryDiamond
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Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
Executive Vice President
Freedom House
Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow
George W. Bush Institute
@NicBibSed
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Moderator
Jennifer Dresden, Policy Advocate, Protect Democracy
Jennifer Dresden is a policy advocate at Protect Democracy. She was previously a member of the faculty and the Associate Director of the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown University. Jen has published and lectured on democratic and authoritarian politics for both academic and policy audiences, and has conducted research in the United States and overseas. 
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This event and essays are the latest 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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