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Democracy Endgame Series
Building a Diverse Coalition for Democracy
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT
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The United States just hosted a Summit for Democracy to help reinforce democracy in countries around the world. But what about the health of self government here at home? Conversations about reforming American democracy have expanded to encompass issues ranging from Supreme Court reform to the United States’ electoral system and from citizen polarization to Congressional oversight of the federal bureaucracy. In each of these myriad issues, experts and specialists offer insights and debate the merits of particular policy proposals. But is policy expertise enough to effect the real change needed to revitalize an entire political system? In their new essay for the Democracy Endgame series, William Howell and Susan Stokes draw on the lessons of American history and recent trends around the world to make the case that successfully strengthening democracy requires much more than technical solutions—it requires a movement.
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On Tuesday, December 14th at 12:00pm ET / 11:00am CT, Professors Howell and Stokes will discuss their essay’s key insights, in conversation with Erica Chenoweth, and offer their take on the road ahead as the United States enters the year of action set to follow the Summit for Democracy.
This event is hosted by the University of Chicago Center for Effective Government and Protect Democracy. It 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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William Howell
Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics, University of Chicago; Director of the Center for Effective Government
@profwillhowell
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Susan Stokes
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago; Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy
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Erica Chenoweth
Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Kennedy School; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
@EricaChenoweth
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This event & essay 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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