Presented By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
WCED Roundtable. Capitalism and Democracy Revisited
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Panelists: Ricarda Hammer, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow; Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Brendan McElroy, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow; John Medearis, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside; John D. Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Inspired by the 30th anniversary of Capitalist Development and Democracy by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, as well as the 80th anniversary of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, our theme at WCED this year has been "Capitalism and Democracy." This roundtable revisits these classic works and reconsiders the connections between democracy and capitalism in an age when both are targets of growing skepticism and critiques.
Moderated by Dan Slater, WCED Director.
Ricarda Hammer is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-23. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global, historical, and postcolonial sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2021, and she is currently working on her book manuscript, Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic. The book aims to build a new genealogy of rights formation by examining it through the colonial struggle, and from the perspective of the enslaved and colonized in the colonial Caribbean.
Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. She studies democratization, social policy, poverty and inequality in Latin America and advanced industrial democracies. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow at the Wilson Center, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Kellogg Institute, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto, and she received an Honorary Doctorate in the Social Sciences from the University of Bern in 2010, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina in 2004. In 2021, she and John D. Stephens jointly received the Distinguished Career Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She is a former President (2012-13) of the Latin American Studies Association and a former Vice President (2017-18) of the American Political Science Association.
Brendan McElroy is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2020-22. His core research interests include state formation, political economy of development, and the genesis of representative institutions, with a regional emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe, which studies the politics of agrarian reform—here meaning state intervention in the relationship between manorial lords and their subject farmers—in Central and Eastern Europe during the later eighteenth century. Brendan earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2020.
John Medearis is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests include: political theory (especially modern and contemporary); democratic theory; protest and social movements; and the philosophy of political inquiry. His book Why Democracy is Oppositional was published by Harvard University Press in June, 2015. He is also author of Joseph Schumpeter’s Two Theories of Democracy (Harvard, 2001) and Joseph A. Schumpeter (Continuum, 2009). His research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, and Polity.
John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and the Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area foci on Europe, the Antipodes, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He teaches European politics and the political economy of advanced industrial societies. He is the author of five books including Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Evelyne Huber and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 1992), Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with Evelyne Huber, 2001), and Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America (with Evelyne Huber, 2012). In 2021, Evelyne Huber and he received the award for Distinguished Career in Political Sociology, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Panelists: Ricarda Hammer, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow; Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Brendan McElroy, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow; John Medearis, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside; John D. Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Inspired by the 30th anniversary of Capitalist Development and Democracy by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, as well as the 80th anniversary of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, our theme at WCED this year has been "Capitalism and Democracy." This roundtable revisits these classic works and reconsiders the connections between democracy and capitalism in an age when both are targets of growing skepticism and critiques.
Moderated by Dan Slater, WCED Director.
Ricarda Hammer is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-23. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global, historical, and postcolonial sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2021, and she is currently working on her book manuscript, Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic. The book aims to build a new genealogy of rights formation by examining it through the colonial struggle, and from the perspective of the enslaved and colonized in the colonial Caribbean.
Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. She studies democratization, social policy, poverty and inequality in Latin America and advanced industrial democracies. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow at the Wilson Center, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Kellogg Institute, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto, and she received an Honorary Doctorate in the Social Sciences from the University of Bern in 2010, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina in 2004. In 2021, she and John D. Stephens jointly received the Distinguished Career Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She is a former President (2012-13) of the Latin American Studies Association and a former Vice President (2017-18) of the American Political Science Association.
Brendan McElroy is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2020-22. His core research interests include state formation, political economy of development, and the genesis of representative institutions, with a regional emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe, which studies the politics of agrarian reform—here meaning state intervention in the relationship between manorial lords and their subject farmers—in Central and Eastern Europe during the later eighteenth century. Brendan earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2020.
John Medearis is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests include: political theory (especially modern and contemporary); democratic theory; protest and social movements; and the philosophy of political inquiry. His book Why Democracy is Oppositional was published by Harvard University Press in June, 2015. He is also author of Joseph Schumpeter’s Two Theories of Democracy (Harvard, 2001) and Joseph A. Schumpeter (Continuum, 2009). His research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, and Polity.
John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and the Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area foci on Europe, the Antipodes, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He teaches European politics and the political economy of advanced industrial societies. He is the author of five books including Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Evelyne Huber and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 1992), Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with Evelyne Huber, 2001), and Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America (with Evelyne Huber, 2012). In 2021, Evelyne Huber and he received the award for Distinguished Career in Political Sociology, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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