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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series & Democracy and Its Critics Initiative

Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies

April 8, 2026
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
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Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series & Democracy and Its Critics Initiative

Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies

April 8, 2026
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
Giovanni Capoccia
Speaker
Giovanni Capoccia
Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations; Fellow Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Steven Levitsky
Discussant
Steven Levitsky
Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Harvard University

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Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt
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
 
April 8, 2026
3:00pm - 4:15pm
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Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions

Join us for discussion of Giovanni Capoccia's current project Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies, which he co-directs with Isabela Mares of Yale University. The project examines the conditions under which democrats can successfully counter emerging illiberal challenges and democratic backsliding. Capoccia will focus on the temporal dilemmas democrats face when confronting illiberal executives or rising illiberal oppositions, the trade-offs between early action and effective coordination, and the ways in which information and institutional legacies shape the prospects for democratic resilience over time.

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