CANCELED: MIT Starr Forum | Does democracy imply majority rule? Insights from the US and around the world

When:
Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023 4:30p -
6:00p

Where:
Bartos Theater, E15-070
20 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
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mitcis MIT Center for International Studies

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Event website:
https://bit.ly/democracymajorityrule

This event has been canceled.


Speakers:

Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and professor of government at Harvard University. He is also director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatts) most recently of “Tyranny of the Minority," and will discuss highlights from the book.


Daniel Ziblatts is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy group at Berlin's Social Science Center (WZB Berlin Social Science Center). He is co-author most recently of “Tyranny of the Minority," and will discuss highlights from the book.


Netta Barak-Cohen is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. Currently, she is a Law, Ethics, and Public Policy Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, affiliated with the Law Group at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).


Melissa Schwartzberg is a professor of politics at New York University. Her research focuses on democratic theory and constitutionalism, history of political thought.


Moderator:

Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT and the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS).


Books will be signed and sold at the event.


Co-Sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.


Free & open to the public.

Also watch it on YouTube.


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