Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Intimations of Failure
Channel: UC Berkeley Events
Date: 2022-11-16

"For the People? - Representative Government in America

Political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists consider norms of democratic representation in literatures whose paths cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. Democratic theory is perhaps the area to which one would look for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of our recent institutional history. These lectures will try to bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. They aspire to articulate reasonable norms for democratic representation through critical engagement with the findings of scholars who have studied it in the wild."