Why Democracy is in Crisis: James Kloppenberg

Black Box Theatre, L.R. Wilson Hall

01/04/2019, 7:00 pm - TO 01/04/2019 - 8:30 pm

Organizer: The Socrates Projet - Office of the President

Harvard University Professor, James Kloppenberg has written “Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition.” He was photographed at Robinson Hall where his office is located. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

James Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Professor of American University, Harvard University. Kloppenberg’s book, Toward Democracy, has won international acclaim as one of the most insightful explorations of the idea of democracy in Europe and North America.

In partnership with the Wilson Institute for Canadian History.

Free event. RSVP online: https://socrates.mcmaster.ca/events/why-democracy-is-in-crisis-james-kloppenberg/
or call 905 525 9140 ext. 26848

As part of Living Democracy series.

Democracy can be strengthened or weakened, made anemic or vital. This series assumes that democracy must be tended, and offers differing, sometimes competing, ways of doing so.