| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, May 11, 2017 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
F. Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Speaker Series
The event will feature a discussion on Justin Gest’s new book, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, as well as Nick Carnes’ book, White Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making. These experts will weigh in on the role of populism in the United States and its influence on the rise of Donald Trump. Details are below.
Seats are limited, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/populism-and-its-influence-in-the-united-states-tickets-33991307917
More on the speakers and discussant:
Justin Gest is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, minority political behavior, and immigration policy. In the field of minority political behavior, his earlier research focused on Muslim political behavior in Western democracies. This work was collected in Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2010). He recently published a follow-up study that applies his conclusions to white working class people. This work is entitled The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Nick Carnes is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and the Co-Director of the Research Triangle chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. His research focuses on U.S. politics, legislative decision making, representation, social class, economic inequality, and state and local politics. His book White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making examines how the shortage of people from the working class in American legislatures skews the policymaking process towards outcomes that are more in line with the upper class’s economic interests. He is also completing a large-scale study of the factors that discourage working-class Americans from holding public office and the programs that could help to address the shortage of working-class Americans in our political institutions.
Chris Cochrane is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Left and Right: The Small World of Political Ideas (MQUP, 2015) and co-author, with Rand Dyck, of Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (Nelson, 2014). He is also a co-investigator of Digging Into Linked Parliamentary Data, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration investigating the written records of parliamentary speech in Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is interested in ideology and political disagreement in Canada and other democratic countries.
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