Democracy in Crisis: Conversations with New Haven Scholars
This series of presentations and civic discussions invites a broad public of New Haven neighbors together to reflect upon the state of American democracy today—widening inequality, polarization, eroding norms, divisive media, and failing institutions in addition to centuries-long traditions of resilience, dissent, and idealism in the face of injustice and imperfection. What are the lessons of the past? And what solutions might the insights of different fields suggest? Light refreshments will be served.
January 29, 2019: “The Presidency and the News Media: New Challenges to Institutions and Legitimacy,”
Jennifer Hopper, Southern Connecticut State University, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Hopper is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), where she specializes in the American presidency, mass media, and political communication. She teaches courses on U.S. government, the presidency, Congress, and the news media, as well as courses focused on the broader political environment and studying political parties, interest groups, social movements, and public policy.