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Next week, IU is hosting lectures by Francis Fukuyama.
Monday's is on Russia and Ukraine; Tuesday and Thursday he'll cover the following topic:
Liberal democracies constrain power by imposing legal constraints on the exercise of power. Among developed democracies, the United States has one of the most extensive sets of checks and balances. When combined with the country’s current polarization, this institutional setup often leads to what I have termed “vetocracy,” in which there are so many veto points that even the simplest forms of collective action become impossible.Is there a way of reducing vetocracy without undermining basic principles of liberal democracy? We do not want to imitate China, which stands at the opposite end of the spectrum as a consolidated authoritarian state with virtually no checks on the power of the Communist Party.
I think I'm going to attend at least one since I'm planning on taking the family for a last minute spring break trip to Bloomington for a few days. First time the kids will see IU and Bloomington.
A few logistical questions:
1. Where do you park if you want to go on campus to a talk? Still at the Union?
2. Best places to eat in town for family? Staying at the Graduate(?) so I think we can walk downtown and the campus relatively easily.
3. Are classroom buildings open to the public? HPER? Assembly Hall?
4. Is TIS still the best place to score merch?
5. If I want to complain in person about university IT service from the guy who spends all his time on message boards, where would I make that complaint?
Monday's is on Russia and Ukraine; Tuesday and Thursday he'll cover the following topic:
Democratic Decision-making and the Climate Crisis, Part II
Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and director of the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy at Stanford UniversityLiberal democracies constrain power by imposing legal constraints on the exercise of power. Among developed democracies, the United States has one of the most extensive sets of checks and balances. When combined with the country’s current polarization, this institutional setup often leads to what I have termed “vetocracy,” in which there are so many veto points that even the simplest forms of collective action become impossible.Is there a way of reducing vetocracy without undermining basic principles of liberal democracy? We do not want to imitate China, which stands at the opposite end of the spectrum as a consolidated authoritarian state with virtually no checks on the power of the Communist Party.
I think I'm going to attend at least one since I'm planning on taking the family for a last minute spring break trip to Bloomington for a few days. First time the kids will see IU and Bloomington.
A few logistical questions:
1. Where do you park if you want to go on campus to a talk? Still at the Union?
2. Best places to eat in town for family? Staying at the Graduate(?) so I think we can walk downtown and the campus relatively easily.
3. Are classroom buildings open to the public? HPER? Assembly Hall?
4. Is TIS still the best place to score merch?
5. If I want to complain in person about university IT service from the guy who spends all his time on message boards, where would I make that complaint?
