Elections are the only mechanism by which we process conflicts that is open to participation of all citizens. They manage conflicts in liberty and peace when something but not too much depends on their outcomes and when the incumbents do not foreclose the possibility of being defeated in the future. This is all we can expect of democracy.

Professor Adam Przeworski will deliver the latest in the Department of Political Economy's Distinguished Lecture series.

The lecture will take place in the Bush House Auditorium (-1.01) and will be followed by a reception. All welcome.

SPEAKER

Adam Przeworski is the Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus of Politics

at New York University. Previously he taught at the University of Chicago and

held visiting appointments in India, Chile, China, France, Germany, Spain, and

Switzerland. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

British Academy, and the National Academy of Science, he is the recipient of

the 1985 Socialist Review Book Award, the 1998 Gregory M. Luebbert Article

Award, the 2001 Woodrow Wilson Prize, the 2010 Lawrence Longley Article

Award, the 2018 Sakip Sabanci International Award, and the 2018 Juan Linz

Prize. In 2010, he received the Johan Skytte Prize. He recently published Why

Bother with Elections? (Polity Press 2018) and Crises of Democracy (Cam-

bridge University Press 2019).