Johns Hopkins Briefing: Midterm Elections' Implications for Democracy

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Johns Hopkins University is hosting a two-part series of expert briefings to examine the potential policy and political changes resulting from the 2022 Midterm Elections. Both events are part of the Johns Hopkins Briefing series, which provides timely insights and analysis of urgent, in-the-news issues from world-renowned experts.

The first of the hour-long live events, "Implications for Democracy," is Nov. 10 and co-hosted by the Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and the SNF Agora Institute. It will cover topics such as civic participation and voter turnout, social polarization, the crisis of liberal democracy, protest and unrest, and historical context.

The second briefing, "Implications for Public Policy" is Nov. 16 and will cover topics such as climate, health care, education, and international relations.

Registrants can submit questions in advance or during the briefing, which will stream on the Johns Hopkins Briefing page. The briefing will be streamed at the same link.

The following Johns Hopkins experts are scheduled to speak on Nov. 10:

• Henry Farrell is an SNF Agora Institute professor of international affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies and co-author of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight Over Freedom and Security and the forthcoming book Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Markets, Networks, and Supply Chains.
• Lilliana Hall Mason is an SNF Agora Institute associate professor of political science and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. Her research has focused on partisan identity and bias, social sorting, and social polarization.
• Yascha Mounk is an SNF Agora senior fellow and an associate professor of the practice of international affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is In Danger and How to Save It. He is a leading expert on the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.
• Leah Wright Rigueur is an SNF Agora Institute professor of history whose expertise includes 20th-century U.S. political and social history, modern African American history, the American presidency and presidential elections, civil rights movements, and protest and unrest in the U.S. She is author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican.