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Living, Loving, Leading: Do We Need a “Big Picture”?

Psychologists, philosophers, politicians and pundits frequently tout the importance of seeing the “big picture.” Put another way, the argument goes, in order to progress, we need the “big picture.” But what if “big pictures” are neither helpful nor possible?

This problem raises some thorny political and philosophical questions. Is this a moment when global accountings are possible? Or desirable? How do we deal with the anxiety that is created by the lack of a “big picture”? What could we see—and possibly create—without the “big picture” approach.

Jacqueline Salit is a political innovator and advocate for America’s most non-compliant voters—independents—now 43% of the electorate. The President of Independent Voting, she has built the largest network of activist independents in the country and is a sought after coalition partner in the pursuit of political and cultural reform. The author of Independents Rising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), in 2017 Salit teamed up with ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy and the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy to examine the independent voter in Gamechangers?: Independent Voters May Rewrite the Political Playbook.











When: Fri., Dec. 7, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square S.
212-998-6040
Price: Fee: $35; Low Income $25 - At the door: $40; Low Income $30 Videoconference: $20 (for those out of NYC only)
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Psychologists, philosophers, politicians and pundits frequently tout the importance of seeing the “big picture.” Put another way, the argument goes, in order to progress, we need the “big picture.” But what if “big pictures” are neither helpful nor possible?

This problem raises some thorny political and philosophical questions. Is this a moment when global accountings are possible? Or desirable? How do we deal with the anxiety that is created by the lack of a “big picture”? What could we see—and possibly create—without the “big picture” approach.

Jacqueline Salit is a political innovator and advocate for America’s most non-compliant voters—independents—now 43% of the electorate. The President of Independent Voting, she has built the largest network of activist independents in the country and is a sought after coalition partner in the pursuit of political and cultural reform. The author of Independents Rising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), in 2017 Salit teamed up with ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy and the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy to examine the independent voter in Gamechangers?: Independent Voters May Rewrite the Political Playbook.

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