ISPS Post-Election Event Shares Faculty Perspectives

On Tuesday nearly 300 attendees signed in to ISPS’s post-election panel discussion, “Election 2020: What Happened and What’s Next” co-hosted by the Center for the Study of American Politics.

The discussion was led and moderated by Alan Gerber and the participating Yale professors — Jacob Hacker, Christina Kinane, Isabela Mares, Saad Omer, and David Mayhew — expressed their different perspectives on such topics as the election results, populism, the politics of epidemics, the presidential transition stage, and the possible policy outcomes of a Biden administration.

The event was covered by the Yale Daily News and Yale News.

The panel was recorded and can be viewed here (Yale netid required).

Panelists’ recommended readings:

• Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy. 2003. Princeton University Press.
• James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. 2017. Yale University Press.
• William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. 2020. University of Chicago Press.
• Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930. 2009. Cambridge University Press.
• Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. 2018. Princeton University Press.
• Albert Camus, The Plague. 1947. Paris: Gallimard
• Long form journalism: The Atlantic’s coverage of the pandemic; Propublica on the CDC; Jane Mayer on Mitch McConnell
• #epitwitter