https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyD_znb_lfE
Public Participation Event with Eric Kaufmann, Jan-Werner Müller, and Pippa Norris. Speakers were asked questions to answer and model civil discourse, and then the crowd was allowed to do the same.
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. Previously, he was a Lecturer at the University of Southampton and a Lecturer and Professor at Birkbeck, University of London. He was also a stipendiary Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In addition, he is affiliated with the Manhattan Institute, Policy Exchange, the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Kaufmann earned his BA at the University of Western Ontario, in his native Canada. He received his MA and PhD from the London School of Economics. Kaufmann has published extensively in professional journals but is also found frequently in the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and many others. He has published many books including Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2010); Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (2019); and The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism (2024). His most recent book is Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution (2024).
Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University and was a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and later a Fellow in Modern European Thought at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. He works mainly in democratic theory and the history of modern political thought. Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin (ECLA; today: Bard Berlin), the German capital’s first private, English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served as founding research director. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centered on the liberal arts. His publications include Constitutional Patriotism (2007); Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (2013); and What is Populism? (2017), which has been translated into more than 20 languages. 2019 saw the publication of Furcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen Liberalismus, which won the Bavarian Book Prize. Müller’s most recent publication is Democracy Rules (2021).
Pippa Norris is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is the Founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project, Director of the Global Party Survey, Co-Director of the TrustGov Project, Co-Principal Investigator for Trust in European Democracies (TrueDem), and Vice-President of the World Values Survey. Her research compares public opinion and elections, political institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in countries across the globe. She is ranked “The 2nd Most Cited Political Scientist Worldwide,” according to Google Scholar. Major career honors include: The Skytte Prize; the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Political Science Association; the Charles Merriam, Warren E. Miller, Samuel Eldersfeld and George H. Hallet Awards from the American Political Science Association; and the Sir Isaiah Berlin Award from the Political Studies Association. She has also received several book awards and honorary doctorates and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Her recent books include Electoral Integrity in America: Securing Democracy (2019); Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism (2019); and In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify (2022). Her latest book, The Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
