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Democracy series wraps with ‘Challenge of Political Compromise’

March 23, 2013

Contact: Barbara Peck, (614) 292-0283

 

Dennis F. Thompson, the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and founding director of Harvard's university-wide ethics program, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, will present the talk “The Challenge of Political Compromise” as part of the Democracy Studies Speakers Series on April 2.

The Democracy Studies Speakers Series is a collaboration among The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, The Mershon Center for International Securities Studies, and the departments of Political Science and History, and is designed to stimulate discussion about democracy. Organizers hope the series might lead to the development of an interdisciplinary program in democracy studies at The Ohio State University.

Thompson’s talk rounds out the Democracy Studies Speakers Series for 2012-13.Speakers in the series focus on the intellectual foundations for understanding the norms and practices of democracy.

Previous speakers included national scholars James Kloppenberg of Harvard University Department of History, who spoke on the history of American democracy; Guy-Uriel Charles of Duke University School of Law who talked about the legal foundations of democracy; Morris P. Fiorina of Stanford University Department of Political Science and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, who discussed the erosion of representation in American politics; Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard University who spoke about anti-politics in America; Alex Keyssar of Harvard of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, who offered sight into the Electoral College; Melissa Schwartzberg of Columbia University, who talked about supermajority rule and democracy; and Jack L. Goldsmith of Harvard Law School, who discussed national security checks and balances. Videos of these talks are available here.

The talk will be held at 4 p.m. April 2 at the Barrister Club, 25 W. 11^th Ave. The event is free, but registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided. Register here.

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