Dear all:

Please join us on Wednesday, January 23, for a presentation by Jane Mansbridge entitled “Defining and Thinking About Populism.”

Dr. Mansbridge is the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She’s been at the Kennedy School since relocating from Chicago in 1996.  At Northwestern University, where she held a full professorship from 1986 onwards, she is a former associate director and faculty fellow of the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, and the Founding Co-Chair, Organization of Women Faculty.

She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based onorganizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her current work includes studies of representation,democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

Mansbridge was President of theAmerican Political Science Association in 2012-13.  In 2018 she received the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theory.”  Dr. Mansbridge received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard.