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The 2024 US Republican Primaries in Historical Perspective
February 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
| Location: | A602 Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
Many journalists, academics, and pundits have been calling the 2024 primaries a part of a historic rupture in US politics. But these elections reflect both historic continuities and longterm changes that have been shaping American politics and policymaking for more than a century. As such, these state-level, political contests offer an important window into US democratic processes, the perceived power of the president, and the potential for reinvigorated, engaged electorate.
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is the 2023-2024 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Public Affairs in North America at Carleton University. She is a professor of history focusing on the 20th and 21st century US. Her research on politics, public policy, capitalism, and labor has appeared in op-eds, academic articles, and scholarly books, including Sunbelt Capitalism (2013) and Indentured Students (2021). She is currently finishing a monograph on the public/private character of American higher education, tentatively titled, The Business of Education as well as an edited collection on work, capitalism, and democracy in the 20th-Century US.