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You're warmly invited to join us for this cherished tradition. Join us in the Fireside Room at Lucie Stern Center for a delicious meal, great company, and festive cheer as we gather to honor our community and look ahead to an exciting new year!
Tickets are $20/person and include lunch, drinks and dessert. Or, reserve a seat and bring your own brown bag lunch. Members are welcome to bring a guest. Space is limited - register before December 8! Register today - space is limited!
In conversation with Dr. Didi Kuo
Explore the importance of political parties in strong democracies, changes that would make democracies more likely to survive, and the importance of building pro-democracy coalitions.
Dr. Kuo is a Center Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, whose research interests include democratization, political parties, state-building, and the political economy of representation.
She is the author of The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave - and Why They Don't (Oxford University Press) and Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy: the Rise of Programmatic Politics in the United States and Britain (Cambridge University Press 2018). She was an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, and is an adjunct fellow at the Niskanen Center. She received a PhD in political science from Harvard University; as a Marshall Scholar, she studied economic history at Oxford University and politics at the University of Essex. She received a BA in political science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, her hometown.
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