Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Instituion; Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University; Columnist, The New York Times
Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Join E.J. Dionne and James T. Kloppenberg to discuss their history of European social democrats and American progressives from the 1890s to the present. They will explore reformers’ ideals and programs, as well as the challenges facing social democracy as economies have shifted from manufacturing to services, center-left parties have lost working-class support, and immigration and cultural politics have become increasingly prominent. Dionne and Kloppenberg argue that the crises of social democracy and liberal democracy are deeply connected. What strategies should those committed to social democratic principles pursue in the current moment?