The Department of Political Science will present a panel discussion, "Tocqueville in China: What are the Chances?" on Wednesday, March 3 at 3:30 p.m. in John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill.

Panel participants and topics include:

Junfeng Ren, "Peasant Localism and the Reach of the Chinese Party-State" Professor at Fudan University in China and Fulbright scholar at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School for Government, Harvard University.

Robert T. Gannett, Jr., "Democracy in China: Village by Village" Independent scholar, community organizer (Chicago), and director of the Institute for Community Empowerment. Leading Tocqueville scholar: Tocqueville Unveiled (University of Chicago Press) and "Bowling Ninepins in Tocqueville's Township" American Political Science Review.

Bob Pepperman Taylor, "The Problem of Civic Education: Horace Mann's Lesson from America" Professor at UVM and widely published author including (in the distinguished series on American political theory from the University Press of Kansas): Citizenship and Democratic Doubt and Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (in press).