6th Annual John Meisel Lecture featuring Peter MacLeod
Date
Thursday November 7, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
2024: Maximum Democracy or Learning to love the public
The John Meisel Lecture Series in Contemporary Political Controversies Sixth Annual Lecture
Maximum Democracy or Learning to love the public
Peter MacLeod
Founder and Principal, MASS LBP
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Lecture 4:00-5:30pm
Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202
Light refreshments served
About the lecture:
It카지노 게임 컬렉션s easy to feel skeptical about democracy. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s even easier to be skeptical about the public. But in this year카지노 게임 컬렉션s Meisel lecture, Peter MacLeod makes the case for why much of the dysfunction and polarization within western democracies can only be undone when we fundamentally change our relationship with the public. As he argues, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s not that people are impossibly divided or disinterested in politics, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s that we fail to tap into the capability of citizens to create public value or play an expanded role in the work of governing. Democratic norms should not be taken for granted and recent domestic and global events demonstrate why they must be regenerated. In response to this challenge, MacLeod describes an audacious vision that seeks to re-energize politics by dramatically expanding the public카지노 게임 컬렉션s role in the next chapter of our democratic evolution.
About the speaker:
Peter MacLeod is the principal of MASS LBP and one of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s leading experts in public engagement and deliberative democracy. Since its founding in 2007, MASS has completed more than 250 major policy projects for governments and public agencies across Canada while popularizing the use of Civic Lotteries and Citizens카지노 게임 컬렉션 Assemblies, and earning international recognition for its work.
He writes and speaks frequently about the citizen카지노 게임 컬렉션s experience of the state, the importance of public imagination, and the future of responsible government.
He and Richard Johnson are also the authors of the forthcoming book, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Democracy카지노 게임 컬렉션s Second Act카지노 게임 컬렉션 which will be published next year. Find him on Twitter @petermacleod and at .