Global Existential Challenges Series: Does Democracy Have a Future? What America Can Learn From the Rest of the World

Speakers:

• Hanna Lerner, Fellow in Law and Normative Thinking, University Center for Human Values.
• Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.
• Rory Truex, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Moderated by Grigore Pop-Eleches, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Acting Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Hanna Lerner will focus on the roles of civil society mobilization and scholarly activism in defending separation of powers and safeguarding democratic constitutional orders. 

Rory Truex will discuss general patterns in democratic backsliding across the world to identify what factors predict democratic erosion, and what these factors look like in the United States.

Kim Lane Scheppele will examine how democracy has been weakened and how autocracy has strengthened its grip elsewhere in the world (e.g. in Hungary) to better understand what's happening in the U.S.

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