State of Democracy Previous Lectures
Making and Opposing War in Peacetime: American Democracy After 9/11
Sidney Tarrow
November 6, 2015
Sidney Tarrow is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University. Tarrow has his BA from Syracuse, his MA from Columbia, and his PhD from Berkeley. His work has covered a variety of interests, beginning with Italian communism
(his first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967), then shifting to comparative communism in Communism in Italy and France (Princeton 1972, ed., with Donald L.M. Blackmer.
In the 1970s he made a long foray into comparative local politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978), before, in the 1980s, turning to a quantitative and qualitative reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960’s and early
1970’s, in Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989), which received the prize for the best book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements from the American Sociological Association.
His most recent books are Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge 2005) and Contentious Politics(with Charles Tilly, Paradigm,
2006), Power in Movement (third edition, Cambridge, 2011), and Strangers at the Gates: States and Movements in Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2012).
The Politics of Inequality in the United States: How does growing inequality in income affect political equality in the United States?
Martin Gilen, Princeton University
Christopher Faricy, Syracuse University, Maxwell
Spencer Piston, Syracuse University, Maxwell
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Syracuse University, Maxwell
March 20, 2015
Does Citizenship Require Sacrifice?
Kristi Andersen, Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy, Professor of Political Science
Walter Broadnax, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
Tina Nabatchi, Associate Professor of Public Administration
and International Affairs
Robert Rubinstein, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations
Moderated by Grant Reeher, Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute
February 13, 2015
Almost everyone agrees that citizenship carries with it both rights and responsibilities. But how far do the responsibilities extend? Must individuals be willing to sacrifice something important in order to be good citizens? Does
good citizenship, rightly considered, necessarily involve some kind of meaningful sacrifice? Those questions are called here, among a panel of distinguished Maxwell School faculty with a wealth of varied personal, professional, and academic
experiences related to the topic.
Can American Democracy Survive Corruption?
Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law, Fordham University
November 14, 2014
An immensely talented and creative scholar, Professor Teachout brings a rich background in laws governing political behavior, both domestically and abroad, as well as the insights of her original work on corruption and its constitutional history. /p>
Teachout is the former National Director for the Sunlight Foundation, and was the Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's Presidential campaign. Most recently she ran against Andrew Cuomo for the 2014 Democratic Party nomination for Governor
of New York. Teachout is a political consultant for nonprofits, political campaigns, and citizen journalism. She is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United.
This lecture is made possible through a generous gift from the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman fund.
The Dispossessed: The Ethics of Refugee Policy
Joseph Carens, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
September 19, 2014
Professor Carens is the author of Culture, Citizenship, and Community, which won the 2002 C. B. Macpherson Award, and quality, Moral Incentives and the Market. In his latest book,The Ethics of Immigration, Carens illuminates one of the most pressing
issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems or western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality.
This lecture is made possible through a generous gift from the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman fund.
2013-14
The American Opportunity Agenda: Proposals to help more middle-class women gain financial security, by modernizing America's outdated workplace policies
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family
Madeleine M. Kunin, Former Vermont Governor
Can Democracy Cure Capitalism?
Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts
2012-13
Acting on Faith: Networking, Religion, and Progressive Politics
Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of NETWORK, Washington, DC
This lecture is sponsored by the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman Endowed Fund.
Can Politics Be Fixed?
Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Ira Shapiro, Former Senior Senate Staffer and Member of the Clinton Administration
The Real Romney
Michael Kranish, author, historian, and Washington correspondent for The Boston Globe
2011-12
The Future of Conservatism
Arthur Brooks, President, AEI
This Lecture Sponsored by Marilyn Morris Malmuth '51.
The Future of Medicare
Jon Oberlander, Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Democracy on Trial Revisited
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago
2010-11
Anne Kornblut, White House correspondent for The Washington Post and author of Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
Roger Hardy, former Middle East and Islamic Affairs Analyst with the BBC World Service and author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam
Jon Trickett, Labour Member of Parliament, former Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Mayor of Leeds
2009-10
If You Want to Spread Democracy, You Have to Be One
Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Is the United States Headed for a Catastrophic Budget Failure?
Len Burman, Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs; Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics; Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
The Race Between Education and Technology
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
2008-09
The 2008-2009 series was sponsored by Betsy Levitt Cohn and Alan Cohn
What's New About Contemporary Immigration?
Nancy Foner
The Hard Truth: Too Many People Are Going to College
Charles Murray
The Race Between Education and Technology
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
2007-08
Michael E. Toner
James Hunter
Irshad Manji
2006-07
Jacob Hacker
Shibley Telhami
Thomas Mann
Deborah Stone
2005-06
Toby Moffett
Harvey C. Mansfield
2006 Constitution Day Lecture: Peter Schuck
Thomas Carothers
2004-05
Michele Moody-Adams
E.J. Dionne
Michael Walzer
2003-04
Jeffrey Rosen
Jonathan Schell
Kay Hymowitz