A workshop organized by Professor Kay Schlozman, Ash Institute Visiting Fellow and J. Joseph Moakley Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College.
Political arrangements can have consequences for equal citizenship in various ways. For example, by controlling who is considered a citizen or which citizens have the right to participate fully in governing; by facilitating or inhibiting the conversion of market resources into political
influence; by creating circumstances in which some votes count more than others; by affecting the likelihood that citizens will be able to elect candidates of their choice; and by fostering the representation of particular interests.
This workshop focused on the political institutions, procedural rules, and representative arrangements that have implications for democratic equality among citizens. The approach will be explicitly comparative, placing American practices in the context of political arrangements in other democracies -- both long-established ones and, where appropriate, emerging ones.