Democracy Paradox
By Justin Kempf
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Subscribers: 267
Reviews: 7
Episodes: 211
Jim McAdams
Dec 10, 2021
This is a terrific podcast. There are some people I know (including a few colleagues); even more people whom I would like to know; some books I've read, many more that I need to read. Democracy rules!
Regular Listener
Dec 6, 2021
I look forward to listening to this podcast when it's released each Tuesday. The host Justin always knows how to ask critical questions and brings on thoughtful guests with niche focuses related to democracy in their academic/policy work.
Nick
Dec 6, 2021
I love this podcast!
Rachel
Dec 6, 2021
Thoughtful analysis and commentary about democratic issues. A lot of political commentary today is hyperpartisan and tends to repeat the same talking points, so it is nice to hear more nuanced discussion on this topic.
Avid Listener
Dec 6, 2021
Been listening to the show for a while. Definitely my favorite podcast on democracy. With no political science background, I have a better understanding of American democracy because of Democracy Paradox's global conversations.
Description
Is it possible for a democracy to govern undemocratically? Can the people elect an undemocratic leader? Is it possible for democracy to bring about authoritarianism? And if so, what does this say about democracy? My name is Justin Kempf. Every week I talk to the brightest minds on subjects like international relations, political theory, and history to explore democracy from every conceivable angle. Topics like civil resistance, authoritarian successor parties, and the autocratic middle class challenge our ideas about democracy. Join me as we unravel new topics every week.
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The Last Episode. Elizabeth Saunders on How Democracies Wage War and Make Peace
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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When Democracy Breaks: Final Thoughts with Archon Fung, David Moss and Arne Westad
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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When Democracy Breaks: Scott Mainwaring on Argentina
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May 28, 2024 |
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When Democracy Breaks: 1930s Japan with Louise Young
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May 21, 2024 |
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When Democracy Breaks: Ancient Athens with Josiah Ober and Federica Carugati
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May 14, 2024 |
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Alexander Keyssar on Why We Still Have the Electoral College
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May 07, 2024 |
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Robert Kagan on the Threat of Antiliberalism
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Rep Mikie Sherrill on Whether the Bipartisan Consensus on Foreign Policy Will Hold and on Threats to American Democracy
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Saskia Brechenmacher on Promoting Gender Equality Through Democracy Assistance Aid
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Democracy in a Postmodern Era with Bruce Ackerman
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Adam Casey on How Military Aid Can Stabilize and Destabilize Foreign Autocrats
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Disinformation is a Threat to Democracy Says Barbara McQuade
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Grading Biden's Foreign Policy with Alexander Ward
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Peter Pomerantsev on Winning an Information War
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Is Democracy Still in Decline? Yana Gorokhovskaia on the Freedom in the World Report
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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When We Misread Dictators... Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the American Invasion of Iraq
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Why is the Immigration System Broken? Jonathan Blitzer on How American Foreign Policy in Central America Created a Crisis
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Surveillance State in China Began With Mao Says Minxin Pei
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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After a Coup, Can the Constitutional Order Be Repaired? Adem Abebe on Rebuilding Constitutions in West Africa
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Can Poland Repair its Constitutional Democracy? Tomás Daly Believes it Can
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Simon Shuster on Zelensky in War and Peace
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Marcela Rios Tobar on the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Kurt Weyland on the Resilience of Democracy
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Is Islamism Democratic? Sebnem Gumuscu on Islamist Parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China? Bethany Allen Believes We Can
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in Early Representative Governments
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Is McKinsey and Company a Threat to Democracy? Michael Forsythe Shares His Reporting
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Dan Slater on Thailand's Revolutionary Election
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Isabel Kershner on Israel and its Divisions
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Cole Bunzel on Wahhābism
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May 30, 2023 |
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Daron Acemoglu on Technology and the Struggle for Shared Prosperity
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May 23, 2023 |
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Serhii Plokhy on the Russo-Ukrainian War
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May 16, 2023 |
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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
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May 09, 2023 |
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Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy
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May 02, 2023 |
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Jamie Susskind Explains How to Use Republican Ideals to Govern Technology
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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James Goldgeier on NATO, its Enlargement, and its Future
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Josh Chin on China's Surveillance State
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Staffan Lindberg with a Report on Democracy in the World
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Srdja Popovic on Dilemma Actions
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Wendy Hunter on Lula, Bolsonaro, January 8th and Democracy in Brazil
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Anna Grzymala-Busse on the Sacred Foundations of Modern Politics
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism's Discontents
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Michael Walzer on Liberal as an Adjective
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Robert Kagan Looks to American History to Explain Foreign Policy Today
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Olivier Zunz on Alexis de Tocqueville
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Lynette Ong Describes How China Outsources Repression
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Olga Onuch and Henry Hale Describe the Zelensky Effect
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Economy in a Wide Ranging Conversation About China
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Richard Wike Asked Citizens in 19 Countries Whether Social Media is Good for Democracy
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Naunihal Singh on the Myth of the Coup Contagion
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Mohammed Ali Kadivar on Paths to Durable Democracy and Thoughts on the Protests in Iran
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Michael Ignatieff Warns Against the Politics of Enemies
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Emilee Booth Chapman Has Ideas About Voting with Profound Implications
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Jason Brownlee Believes We Underestimate Democratic Resilience
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Allie Funk of Freedom House Assesses Global Internet Freedom
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Jeremi Suri on America's Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Frank Dikötter on the History of China After Mao
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Larry Diamond on Supporting Democracy in the World and at Home
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Lynn Vavreck on the 2020 Election and the Challenge to American Democracy
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sarah Cook on China's Expanding Global Media Influence
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Constitution Makers on Constitution Making: Hassen Ebrahim on South Africa's Constitution
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Simon Usherwood on Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and the Nested Games of British Politics
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way on the Durable Authoritarianism of Revolutionary Regimes
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Laura Gamboa on Opposition Strategies to Resist Democratic Erosion
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and its Democratic Decline
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Jessica Pisano on How Zelenskyy Changed Ukraine
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Neil DeVotta on the Protests in Sri Lanka
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Aynne Kokas on the Intersection Between Surveillance Capitalism and Chinese Sharp Power (or How Much Does the CCP Already Know About You?)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Scott Mainwaring on Argentina and a Final Reflection on Democracy in Hard Places
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Rachel Beatty Riedl on Benin. Democracy in Hard Places.
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Evan Lieberman on South Africa. Democracy in Hard Places
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Dan Slater on Indonesia. Democracy in Hard Places
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May 31, 2022 |
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Kathryn Stoner on How Putin's War has Ruined Russia
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May 24, 2022 |
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Scott Radnitz on Why Conspiracy Theories Thrive in Both Democracies and Autocracies
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May 17, 2022 |
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Dan Banik is In Pursuit of Development
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May 13, 2022 |
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Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression
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May 10, 2022 |
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Thomas Piketty on Equality
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May 03, 2022 |
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Marta Dyczok and Andriy Kulykov on the Media, Information Warriors, and the Future of Ukraine
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Yascha Mounk on the Great Experiment of Diverse Democracies
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Mark Beissinger on Contemporary Urban Civic Revolutions
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Craig Whitlock on the Lessons Learned in Afghanistan
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Miles Rapoport on How We Can Achieve Universal Voting
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Between Russia and China: Anja Mihr on Central Asia
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane on the Decline of Indian Democracy
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Lisa Disch on Representation, Constituencies, and Political Leadership
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch on Migration's Potential to Topple Dictatorships
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Angus Deaton on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Zeynep Pamuk on the Role of Science and Expertise in a Democracy
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalist Leaders
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Joshua Yaffa on Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Zoltan Barany on the Ineffectiveness of the Gulf Militaries
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Amory Gethin on Political Cleavages, Inequality, and Party Systems in 50 Democracies
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Daniel Brinks on the Politics of Institutional Weakness
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Susan Rose-Ackerman on the Role of the Executive in Four Different Democracies
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Tom Ginsburg Shares his Thoughts on Democracy and International Law
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Robert Meister Believes Justice is an Option
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Martin Conway Believes "Democracy Owes its Durability Not to its Principles but to its Flexibility." Democracy in Western Europe from 1945 to 1968
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley on the Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Rana Siu Inboden on China and the International Human Rights Regime
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Timothy Frye Says Putin is a Weak Strongman
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Kathryn Stoner on Russia's Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Charles Kupchan on America's Tradition of Isolationism
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Roger Lee Huang on Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Tatmadaw
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Mallory SoRelle on the Politics of Consumer Credit
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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David Stasavage on Early Democracy and its Decline
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jan-Werner Müller on Democracy Rules
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Dorothy Sue Cobble on the Full Rights Feminists
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Freedom House: Sarah Repucci Assesses Freedom in the World
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Michael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to Democratization
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Daniel Carpenter Revisits the Petition in 19th Century America
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Sebastian Strangio Explains the Relationship Between China and Southeast Asia
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Can America Preserve Democracy without Retreating from it? Robert C. Lieberman on the Four Threats
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May 25, 2021 |
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Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
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May 18, 2021 |
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James Loxton Explains Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies
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May 11, 2021 |
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Derek W. Black Says Public Education Represents the Idea of America... Not its Reality
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May 04, 2021 |
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Sheryl WuDunn Paints a Picture of Poverty in America and Offers Hope for Solutions
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Mike Hoffman on How Religious Identities Influence Support for or Opposition to Democracy
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Shari Davis Elevates Participatory Budgeting
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Chris Bickerton Defines Technopopulism
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Ross Benes on Nebraska and Rural Conservatism
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Chad Alan Goldberg on the Wisconsin Idea and the Role of the Public University in a Democracy
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Nugent on Polarization, Democratization and the Arab Spring
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Ryan Salzman is an Evangelist for Placemaking
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Kajri Jain Believes Democracy Unfolds through the Aesthetic
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Nic Cheeseman and Gabrielle Lynch on the Moral Economy of Elections in Africa
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Thomas Carothers and Andrew O'Donohue are Worried About Severe Polarization
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Can Democracy Survive the Internet? Nate Persily and Josh Tucker on Social Media and Democracy
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Bryn Rosenfeld on Middle Class Support for Dictators in Autocratic Regimes
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Zizi Papacharissi Dreams of What Comes After Democracy
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Winston Mano on Social Media and Politics in Africa... And what America can Learn from Africa about Democracy
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Michael Hughes on the History of Democracy in Germany
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Lee Drutman Makes the Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Hélène Landemore on Democracy without Elections
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Glenn Tiffert on the Manipulation of Academia by Foreign Governments
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan and John Boswell on Mending Democracy
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Mareike Ohlberg on the Global Influence of the Chinese Communist Party
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Xiaoyu Pu on China's Global Identities
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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G. John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Brazil
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe on the Presidency
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Barbara Freese on Corporate Denial
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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John Matsusaka on National Referendums
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Donald F. Kettl on Federalism
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Recap of Resistance, Revolution, Democracy
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Jonathan Pinckney on Civil Resistance Transitions
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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George Lawson on Revolution
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Erica Chenoweth on Civil Resistance
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Resistance, Revolution, Democracy
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Jill Long Thompson on Character in a Democracy
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Juliet B. Schor on the Sharing Economy
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Agnes Cornell and Svend-Erik Skaaning on the Interwar Period
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch on Citizen Initiative Review
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Yael Tamir on Nationalism
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Joshua J. Dyck and Edward L. Lascher, Jr. on Initiative Referendums
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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William S. Smith on Irving Babbitt
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Takis Pappas on Populism and Liberal Democracy
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon on the End of American Hegemony
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Luis Cabrera on International Human Rights
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Marlene Mauk on Citizen Support for Democracies... and Autocracies
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Monologue on Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Jun 21, 2020 |