Assessing American Democracy on April 3

Posted on March 30th, 2008 Jack No comments  Print This Post

We are holding a symposium on Thursday called Assessing the State of Democracy in America: Is This the Best We Can Be?

Panelists from the academic, democracy promotion and U.S. political reform communities will discuss current work by Freedom House on American democracy, the presidential nominating system and what types of political reform the next administration should champion.

Keynote: Tom Melia, Freedom House

Panelists:
Algernon Austin, Economic Policy Institute
Patrick Basham, Democracy Institute/Cato Institute
Doug Chapin, electionline.org/Pew Charitable Trusts
Ryan O’Donnell, Common Cause
Rob Richie, FairVote
Mark Rom, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Moderators:
Dan Brumberg, Georgetown Democracy & Governance
Barak Hoffman, Center for Democracy and Civil Society

Join us at the Carnegie Endowment off Dupont Circle on April 3 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Come a little earlier for continental breakfast.

For more information and the RSVP address, see the listing on Georgetown’s site.