“American Democracy in Crisis: Outlook for the Future”

The Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich and the Greenwich Library present Professor Steven Levitsky, Ph.D.: ““American Democracy in Crisis: Outlook for the Future”

Steven Levitsky is coauthor with Daniel Ziblatt of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018) which was a New York Times Best-Seller and has been published in 22 different languages. Based in large part on his academic research, Levitsky believes that U.S. democracy is under serious threat. He asks the question, “why has U.S. democracy fallen into crisis over the last decade, and how has deepening partisan polarization played a role?” He will discuss where this polarization comes from, focusing on racial and cultural re-alignment of the last half century. He will examine three threats going forward: (1) the threat of a slide into autocracy; (2) the threat of a slide into dysfunction; and (3) the threat of a slide into minority rule. Levitsky will conclude by considering what can be done to preserve American democracy.

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