Date and Time
February 29, 2008
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM February 28

Participant
Jane Mansbridge - Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest; Feminism; and Oppositional Consciousness. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of collective action problems.