Date: Thursday, January 23rd
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 707 International Affairs Building (Lindsay Rogers Room), 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027

Please join us on Thursday, January 23d, at 5pm for the first in a series of evening talks co-sponsored by Columbia American Politics Speaker Series (CAPSS) and the Columbia World Projects (CWP) initiative on “Renewing Democratic Participation.”

Daniel Schlozman (Johns Hopkins), the recent co-author with Sam Rosenfeld of The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics, will present on “Political Parties and the Democracy Conversation,” followed by comment by two discussants, Kate Krimmel (Barnard) and Ira Katznelson (Columbia). 

The event will take place from 5-6.30p.m. in the Lindsay Rogers Room (International Affairs Building 707).  Refreshments will be available. 

During the course of the term, there will be three additional evening sessions:

February 20, Daniel Carpenter (Harvard)
March 13, Didi Kuo (Stanford)
April 17, Susan Stokes (Chicago)  

This series is part of an initiative considering how political institutions and patterns of democratic representation can contribute to an open and inclusive civic culture.  Professor Schlozman will address a paradox: The decline of rooted, organized political parties is often identified as a contributor to the current crisis of democracy, yet when it comes to solutions, parties are little in evidence, and reformers tend to recast old anti-party arguments in new garb.