Dr. Michael Neblo heads to Philadelphia as Co-Chair for the 120^th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition alongside Dr. Danielle Allen of Harvard University. The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries. The theme for this year’s conference is “Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination”. Dr. Neblo will lead a roundtable discussion focused on responses to retrenchment with a special emphasis on the recent proliferation of democratic innovations worldwide. He will also present his work “Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation” during a panel.  

Dr. Neblo is joined by IDEA’s Research and Assistant Research Director, Dr. William Minozzi and Dr. Laura Moses, as well as IDEA Fellows Bear Brown, Euchan Jang, and Jungbae An of the Ohio State University and Marco Castradori of Princeton University. They will highlight their work on the following topics: 

IDEA’s work with the Connecting Classrooms to Congress initiative will also be featured in a panel Addressing Democratic Backsliding through Innovative Youth Engagement. 

Dr. Neblo and our team are thrilled to share some of the exciting work coming out of IDEA with a diverse community of scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners.