100% Democracy Book Talk with E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport

Description

Twenty-six countries around the world require participation in elections, including Australia, which has required citizens to cast a ballot since 1924 and had over 90% voter turnout in its last major election. The U.S., on the other hand, lags behind other democracies, with only 66.8% of eligible voters participating in the record-turnout election of 2020. If Americans are required to pay taxes and serve on juries, why not ask—or require—every American to vote?

Join a conversation with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and Harvard fellow Miles Rapoport, moderated by Clarissa Unger, executive director of the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, who will discuss Dionne and Rapoport's new book 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, universal voting policies around the world, and what it would look like to build a democracy on campus and in our country where everyone is included.

All in-person events at Johns Hopkins must follow university COVID-19 policies. See current guidelines online. This is a hybrid event; attendees will need to register to attend either in person or virtually.

This event is co-sponsored by: Baltimore Collegetown Network, Hopkins Votes, Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, MICA Center for Creative Citizenship, Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, and the SNF Agora Institute.