Answering to Us: Why Democracy Demands Accountability

Wednesday, April 29th | 6:00PM

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Join us for a discussion with Minh Ly, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Vermont, about his research and teaching focus on the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship, democratic theory, economic justice, global justice, and civic education. 

Professor Josiah Ober, former chair of political science at Stanford, writes:

"Answering to Us is a wide-ranging and profound exploration of the fundamental value of collective self-government and what it takes to have and keep it.”

Minh Ly is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Answering to Us: Why Democracy Demands Accountability, from Princeton University Press.  Professor Josiah Ober, former chair of political science at Stanford, writes: "Answering to Us is a wide-ranging and profound exploration of the fundamental value of collective self-government and what it takes to have and keep it.  Ly's original argument for democracy as equal accountability draws on an extraordinary mastery of political history, moral philosophy, and empirical social science."  Professor Ly’s research and teaching focus on the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship, democratic theory, economic justice, global justice, and civic education.

Before joining UVM, he was a Lecturer at Stanford in the Center for Ethics in Society and a postdoc at Princeton in the University Center for Human Values and the School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Ly earned his Ph.D. with distinction in political science from Brown and his A.B. from Harvard. He is one of the founding members of the Alliance for Civics in the Academy to promote civic education in universities nationwide.

Wednesday, April 29th | 6:00 PM

Fletcher Free Library 

235 College St., Burlington, VT

Registration required. For more information, please visit: www.fletcherfree.org/CivicReads

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