Fear and democracy, security and freedom
How and whether constitutional democracies can balance challenges to public safety and their commitment to individual rights is the topic of a presentation this month by political scientist Ira Katznelson at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder.
Ira Katznelson
The event titled 鈥淔ear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom,鈥 will occur on Thursday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the on the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus.
Katznelson is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University.
His most recent books are Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns (with Andreas Kalyvas), and When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.
Katznelson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is president of the Social Science Research Council and past president of the American Political Science Association.
The event, which is free and open to the public is sponsored by the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder (CARTSS) and the .