The Future of American Democracy

The conference will focus on the decline of democratic norms under the Trump administration. This decline is illustrated in three distinct ways: the rewriting of US history and purging of elements judged to be unfavorable to the administration; the weaponization of religion for political purposes; the use of court decisions, sometime favorable, sometime unfavorable to the administration and the more general “autocratic drift” of the U.S. presidency.

Speakers: 

• Virginie Adane (Nantes University)
  The Trump Administration and the Rewriting of US History
• Denis Lacorne (CERI-Sciences Po)
  The Weaponization of Religion by the Trump Administration
• Rachel Beatty Riedl (Cornell University / visiting professor at CERI)
  Democratic Backsliding in the United States and Sources of Resistance
• Bruce Cain (Stanford University / visiting professor at CERI)
  The Autocratic Drift of the Trump’s Presidency
• Laurent Cohen-Tanugi (Member of the Paris and New York Bars)
  The Courts, the Rule of Law and the  Autocratic Drift of the Trump’s Presidency