American Democracy Lecture (Dept. of HPIR)

Guest speaker Dr. Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Stanford University, Department of Political Science, will lecture on "An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues."

Dr. Morris P. Fiorina
Wendt Family Professor and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Stanford University, Department of Political Science

"An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues"
The United States is currently experiencing an historically unprecedented period of electoral instability. In this talk, Dr. Fiorina will discuss how current times contrast with earlier periods in American electoral history. He will share how the sorting of the two parties into ideologically opposing organizations does not well represent the larger electorate. The result: the inability of either party to forge lasting majorities that can make significant progress on the problems our country faces.