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Events

Upcoming Events

Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy

Wednesdays at noon, in-person at ISR-Thompson Room 6080 (except where noted). Read more about this year’s series.

Upcoming talks for 2024:

Mar. 6, Danielle Thomsen, UC Irvine
Mar. 20, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University
Apr. 10, D’Andra Orey, Jackson State University

The 2024 Miller-Converse Lecture

James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 4:00-5:30 PM Eastern
ISR-Thompson, Room 1430

This event is part of the annual Miller-Converse Lecture Series.

Democracy’s Destruction? The 2020 Election, Trump’s Insurrection, and the Strength of America’s Political Institutions

Did Trump and his MAGAites inflict damage on American political institutions via election denialism and the assault on the U.S. Capitol? While most pundits and many scholars find this a question easy to answer in the affirmative, to date, little rigorous evidence has been adduced on Trump’s institutional consequences. Based on surveys of representative samples of the American people in July 2020, December 2020, March 2021, and June 2021, Gibson’s analysis examines in great detail whether American political institutions lost legitimacy over the period from before the presidential election to well after it, and whether any such loss is associated with acceptance of the “Big Lie” about the election and its aftermath. His highly contrarian conclusion is simple: try as they might (and did), Trump and his Republicans did not in fact succeed in undermining American national political institutions. The empirical evidence indicates that institutions seem to be more resilient than many have imagined, just as Legitimacy Theory would predict.

James L. Gibson is the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His book on this subject, Democracy’s Destruction? The 2020 Election, Trump’s Insurrection, and the Strength of America’s Political Institutions, is forthcoming from the Russell Sage Foundation, May 2024.

 

The 2024 Mexican Elections in Context

Edgar Franco-Vivanco: University of Michigan
Blanca Heredia: TalentumMx
Itzel Soto: Data Cívica
Aleister Montfort: entropía AI

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | 2:30-4 PM Eastern
Michigan Union- Anderson ABC (1st Floor)

Next June, millions of Mexicans will head to the polls to elect a new president, along with 500 members of Congress, 128 members of the Senate, and thousands of local officials. The Mexican election is a pivotal event in Latin America, with significant implications for the US. With both countries sharing a 2,000-mile border, close economic ties, and common challenges, this election will address critical issues such as security, migration, economics, and the future of democratic institutions. This panel brings together a group of experts to delve into these topics and discuss the upcoming election in an international context.

The event will be recorded but not streamed.
Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies (CPS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), and the Department of Political Science