Host Department:
Political Science
Date: 02/06/2012
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Haven Hall (Eldersveld Room #5670)
Description:
On Monday, February 6, from 6 to 8pm in the Eldersveld Room in the Department of Political Science (Haven Hall 5th Floor), the Undergraduate Political Science Association will host: "A Debate on the Emergency Financial Manager Law: Democracy, Expertise, and the Public Good in Financially Troubled Cities".
We often hear in public discourse that government ought to be run more like a business, with streamlined decision-making by expert managers being preferred over the more cumbersome ways of making decisions that are associated with democratic institutions. The EMF Law can be viewed as cutting to the heart of this tension between expertise and democracy.
To debate this question, we have invited:
Representative Jeff Irwin
Representative Mark Oiumet
Howard Ryan, Director of Legislative Affairs, MI Department of Treasury
Conan Smith, Washtenaw County Commissioner
Dayne Walling, Mayor of Flint
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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