Broadcast date: 7/21/16
We are enduring one of the most polarizing elections in recent memory. The nominees for the major political parties are entering the election with historically low popularity, and minor party candidates are gaining support in polls. Is this the end of the American party system as we know it? How are these nationwide patterns impacting political competition and representation on the Central Coast?
Join host Kris Kington Barker as she speaks with political scientists Alex Keena, a Visiting Lecturer in American Politics at the University of Richmond in Virginia and Michael Latner, Director of the Cal Poly Master’s in Public Policy Program, two of the four co-authors of the new book Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty, to discuss electoral competition and its consequences. They will explore the evolution of our political parties, and how political institutions shape representation and sovereignty in this turbulent era.
Central Coast Voices is sponsored by ACTION for Healthy Communities in collaboration with KCBX and made possible through underwriting by Joan Gellert-Sargen.
