Staff reports
Samuel Bagg, an assistant professor of Political Science at McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina will be the guest speaker when Indivisible Beaufort hosts its next meeting at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 11 at the St. Helena Branch Library at 6355 Jonathon Francis Sr. Road. The event is free and open to the public.
The discussion topic will be Rescuing Democracy From Oligarchic Capture.
Bagg teaches political theory at South Carolina. Before coming to USC, he taught at the University of Oxford, McGill University, and Duke University, where he received his PhD in 2017.
His research, which has appeared in many academic journals, aims to ground democratic theorizing in a realistic picture of the dynamics of social inequality and political power. His first book, “The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy,” published in 2024 by the Oxford University Press, offers a distinctive and comprehensive account of why democracy matters and how to make it better.