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Institute of Politics and Global Affairs Hosts State of Democracy Summit
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Leaders from journalism to NGOs to politics joined The State of Democracy Summit, hosted by Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs on May 24.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/steve-israel/)
Leaders from journalism to NGOs to politics joined The State of Democracy Summit, hosted by Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs on May 24.
Just over 100 days away from Election Day, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer joined in a virtual conversation hosted by former Rep. Steve Israel, Director of Cornell’s Institute for Politics and Global Affairs to discuss presidential campaign strategies.
“We try and take the most difficult issues and address them not by harping on where we disagree, but finding the narrow space of agreement and trying to expand it,” Israel said.
Has Trump really changed everything? This is the question that three professors and a former member of the Congress tried to answer at a panel celebrating the launch of Cornell’s new Institute of Politics and Global Affairs. Speaking in Klarman Hall on Wednesday, the four panelists discussed political polarization, the dwindling of trust in institutions and the need to bridge gaps to find common ground. Rising economic inequality, changing demographics and echo chambers in online communication “created a large group of people who feel left out and unheard,” according to one of the panelists, Prof. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, developmental sociology. By the time the 2016 election rolled around, those people, he said, “were in need of a champion, and here comes Trump.”
Eloundou-Enyegue said that people on the political left often turn to the law, courts and the press to address their grievances.
Beltway politics are soon set to migrate northwards as Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs readies to open on Mar. 1.