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Presented By: Center for Emerging Democracies

Center for Emerging Democracies (@umichDemocracy) Book Talk | Democracy in Darkness

Katlyn Carter | Assistant Professor Department of History | University of Notre Dame

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Center for Emerging Democracies (@umichDemocracy) | Democracy in Darkness
In this talk, Professor Carter will cover how state secrecy came to be seen as despotic in the years preceding the American and French revolutions. She will then examine how revolutionaries who sought to fashion representative governments in North America and France confronted the challenge of determining secrecy's place in their new regimes. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world’s first representative democracies.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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