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Inequality and America's Fragile Democracy
Thu, August 29, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Omni, Embassy RoomSession Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
Session Description
The papers on this panel will examine the historical roots and consequences of racial and class inequality for the stability of American democracy.
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Individual Presentations
Plutocrats with Pitchforks - Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University; Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley
Race and American Democracy: From Racial Division to Democratic Rupture - Robert C. Lieberman, Johns Hopkins University
The Impact of the Politics of Inequality on American Democracy in the Gilded Age - Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
The Wars of Legitimacy: Social Movements and the 2016 Presidential Election - Leah Wright-Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School; Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington