LSA
senior
Kia
Schwert
was captivated by the research
opportunities
at
the
University
when she attended the Michigan
Community
College
Summer
Research Fellowship as a fellow in
2017, inspiring her to transfer to the
University to study sociology and
women’s studies. She got involved as a
research assistant in Profs. Elizabeth
Armstrong and Sandra Levitsky’s
Title IX lab in the Sociology
Department,
which
involved
LSA freshman Lucas Cole is
more invested in school than
the average freshman — not just
when it comes to his classes in
the University of Michigan’s
Residential College, but all of Ann
Arbor’s public schools. Shortly
after graduating from Skyline
High School last spring, Cole
launched a campaign for the Ann
Arbor School Board of Trustees.
He said his experience as a
former student informed his
perspective as a candidate.
“I think that if you talk to
students in the district, from
what I’ve experienced, students
really know that they don’t have a
voice, that people don’t really care
what they think and they’re upset
by it,” Cole said.
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Bernie Sanders rallies for Whitmer
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Michigan Gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer, Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, and Whitmer running mate Garlin Gilchrist speak at a rally for Gretchen Whitmer in Rackham
Auditorium Friday evening.
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With less than three weeks until midterm elections, over 1,000 students attend rally for Democrats
With less than three weeks until
midterm elections, Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Gretchen
Whitmer is teaming up with
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to
garner support.
University
of
Michigan’s
chapter of College Democrats
hosted a rally Friday evening in
support of Whitmer in Rackham
Auditorium. Over 1,100 students,
faculty members and Michigan
residents
filled
the
main
auditorium and an overflow room
on the fourth floor.
In addition to Sanders and
Whitmer, the event featured U.S.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, U.S. Sen.
Gary Peters and Garlin Gilchrist,
Whitmer’s
running
mate
for
lieutenant governor, and various
candidates for state and local
office.
Public Policy senior Kellie
Lounds, chair for the College
Democrats, spoke on Whitmer’s
strengths in regard to mobilizing
young people, noting the impact
an endorsement from Sanders has
made on her platform.
“College students here love her
because they know she’s going to
fight for them, but there are also
more moderate people that love
her because they know she’s going
to lead a strong government that’s
transparent, effective and useful,”
Lounds said.
In light of historically low
turnout rates among University
students
in
recent
elections,
Lounds said building momentum
is more important now. According
to the Ford School of Public Policy,
about 14 percent of University
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be
conducting
interviews
with
the incumbent and challenging
candidates
for
University
of
Michigan Board of Regents prior to
the November midterm election. Our
first interview is with Democratic
challenger
candidate
Jordan
Acker. Acker is a University alum
and worked for the Barack Obama
administration
in
Washington,
D.C. He currently works at a law
firm with his father and resides in
Oakland County with his wife and
two daughters.
The Michigan Daily: What made
you decide to run for regent this year?
Jordan Acker: There’s two real
days in my life that made me want
to do this. The first one was where
I graduated from undergrad … My
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The University of Michigan
Weiser Center for Emerging
Democracies
hosted
Anna
Grzymala-Busse,
a
political
science professor at Stanford
University,
Friday
afternoon
for a lecture about the modern
challenges to democracy. More
than 50 students and faculty
attended
the
event,
titled
“Populism and the Erosion of
Democracy,” and were able to
engage in an active discussion
concerning the implications of a
recent surge in populist support.
Busse,
who
is
currently
researching
the
surge
in
support for populism in former
Communist countries, aimed to
define the populist ideology and
explain why it is on the rise in
Eastern Europe. She also detailed
how populism has contributed to
the deterioration of democratic
institutions worldwide.
“All
populist
parties
and
movements basically make two
claims,” she said. “The first claim
is that the elites are a corrupt and
self-serving cartel. So business
elites, political elites, whether
politicians or businessmen or
journalists, they’re all in it for
themselves.”
According
to
Busse,
this
political stance has resulted in
increasing distrust of liberal
democratic institutions and a
push to minimize their power.
“The first target are the
courts,” Busse stated. “What
they do, basically, is to politicize
the courts and reduce judicial
autonomy, as that could be
a major constraint on these
parties.”
Busse
also
cited
recent
populist policies of court packing,
judicial age limits, changes to
legal framework and, in some
cases,
large-scale
revisions
of national constitutions. In
Hungary, she stated, one party
member was put in charge of all
national judicial appointments,
all but eliminating the presence
of checks on party power.
In her explanation of this
threat
to
democracy,
Busse
mainly cited the examples from
Poland and Hungary, nations
where the populist PiS and Fidesz
parties gained supermajorities in
their national congresses, giving
them
unchecked
legislative
power.
“In both of these cases,
they are going to be governing
unconstrained by any coalition
partner, or frankly any forms of
checks and balances,” she said.
As Busse’s research proved,
recent surges in populist support
have been largely linked to
economic downturn and the
failure of mainstream parties to
respond appropriately to public
concerns.
“These mainstream parties
have
increasingly
failed
to
absorb and to respond to popular
fears,” Busse explained. “Fears
about
the
economy,
about
immigration, about what’s going
on in the world and how rapidly
it’s changing. Instead, what
they followed was basically a
mainstream policy consensus.”
LSA sophomore Yuting Chen
is studying political science and
expressed curiosity at the end
of the lecture with the points
brought up both by Busse and
members of the audience.
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Standford Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse speaks about populism and the erosion of democracy at the Weiser
Center for Emerging Democracies Friday.
Stanford political scientist discusses
the rise of populism in Eastern Europe
Anna Grzymala-Busse explained why such countries have faced democratic erosion
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