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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:"Talk: \"How Democracies Die\" by Daniel Ziblatt (Democracy Summit Keynote)"
DESCRIPTION:"\rIs our democracy in danger? In the bestselling “How Democracies Die,” Harvard Professors Daniel Ziblatt and his co-author, Steven Levitsky, who spent two decades studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, write that they believe the answer is yes. \"Democracy no longer ends with a bang, in a revolution or military coup, but with a whimper–the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms\". \r\rThe Democracy Summit is an opportunity to explore civic ideas, that transform our perspectives on individual and collective responsibilities for a sustainable, just, and equitable society. The Keynote Lecture, which kicks off the summit, will be presented by Dr. Daniel Ziblatt on Monday, October 23rd.  \rAbout the SpeakerDaniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and is director of the Transformations of Democracy research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Berlin, Germany. His three books include How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), co-authored with Steve Levitsky, is a New York Times best-seller and der Spiegel best-seller (Germany) and translated into twenty two languages. He is also the author of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), an account of Europe's historical democratization, which won the American Political Science Association's 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations and American Sociological Association's 2018 Barrington Moore Prize. His first book was an analysis of 19th century state building, Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton, 2006). In recent years he has been a fellow or visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Center for Advanced Study (Stanford), Max Planck Institute (Cologne), University of Munich, and the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris).\r\rOpen to students, faculty, staff and public. Register ahead of time.\r\rRegister\r"
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LOCATION:"Knight Auditorium\, Spurlock Museum\, 600 S. Gregory St.\, Urbana\, IL"
URL:https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event.php?ID=2367
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