Depolarizing Politics: Preventing and Overcoming Pernicious Polarization (11/10)
Outline
Professor McCoy will discuss her ongoing book project on the topic, including her concept of democratic resilience and how specific weaknesses in four arenas produce faultiness of polarization in democracies globally today. She will draw on historical and contemporary examples of successful interventions to address these faultlines.
Speaker
Jennifer McCoy is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is also a research affiliate at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, Budapest, and in 2022-23 was visiting researcher at Koc University, Istanbul and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin. Dr. McCoy’s areas of expertise include democratic resilience, democratic erosion and partisan polarization; crisis prevention and conflict resolution; democracy promotion and collective defense of democracy; election processes and international election observation; and Latin American Politics.
McCoy’s current book projects are Depolarizing Politics: Preventing and Overcoming Pernicious Polarization, and Opposition Strategies to Fight Autocratization, with Turkish coauthor Murat Somer. Dr. McCoy’s long-term research program on Polarized Politics aims to identify the causes, consequences for democracy and solutions to polarized societies around the world, including the United States. She coined the term “pernicious polarization” to refer to the political polarization that divides societies into mutually distrustful “Us vs. Them” camps and threatens democratic governance.
McCoy served as Director of the Carter Center’s Americas Program (1998-2015), leading projects on democratic strengthening, mediation and dialogue, and hemispheric cooperation. She has authored or edited six books and dozens of articles. Recent volumes include Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy (2019) co-edited with Murat Somer, and International Mediation in Venezuela, with Francisco Diez (2012). McCoy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Women’s Forum and the Scholars Strategy Network.
Date & Time
November 10, 2023 (Fri.), 10:40-12:20 (JST)
Venue
Building#3 Room#704, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
*No prior registration required.
Prospected Audience
Students, Faculty Members
Organizer
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
HINO Airo Laboratory
Co-Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
Planned by SATO, Yuko Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University
