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Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World
1 maart 2022 · 40 min
You can't protect basic human rights if you don't have democracy. If you're going to protect basic human rights, you need to have things like credible institutions that hold abusers to account. You need to have opportunities for the least advantaged in a society. The people whose rights are most at risk to be able to choose their leaders and choose leaders who will represent them and serve their interests. You need leaders that serve for the common good, not for their own personal gain. Lees meer
Sarah Repucci
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule here.
Sarah Repucci is the Vice President of Research and Analysis at Freedom House. She coauthored (along with Amy Slipowitz) Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule.
Key Highlights
Global freedom has declined for 16 consecutive years
How Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of a broader expansion of authoritarianism
Myanmar and other countries with major declines in freedom
Bright spots like Ecuador and Peru
How we can support democracy in the world
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Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities
22 februari 2022 · 45 min
If you're actually a real person and you're living your life and you're going into stores and you're riding on a bus or your kids are going to school, what matters is that you be treated with respect. That you have a dignity. And that, I think, at every point that matters most to us is what the book has wound up being about. It’s an essay on respect as a condition of a liberal democracy. Lees meer
Paul Sniderman
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos here.
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten is a professor of political science and scientific director of the Digital Social Science Core Facility at the University of Bergen, Norway. Paul Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. They are the authors of The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos.
Key Highlights
Western societies show greater openness towards Muslim immigrants than previously recognized
Where are there opportunities for real inclusion for Muslim immigrants
How innovative research designs led to unexpected results
The difference between recognition respect and appraisal respect
The limits to inclusion for liberal societies that remain today
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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
Mike Hoffman on How Religious Identities Influence Support for or Opposition to Democracy
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane on the Decline of Indian Democracy
15 februari 2022 · 53 min
You treat votes as equal. My vote is equal to your vote. But the state treats our bodies as unequal. That logically makes no sense and it is farcical to call it a democracy in the first place. Forget what implications this will have for democracy in the long-term, but to be called a democracy and to have your bodies treated differently is a farce in itself. Lees meer
Debasish Roy Chowdhury
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism here.
Deb Chowdhry is a journalist who has published in Time, South China Morning Post, and Washington Times. John Keane is a Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney. They are the authors of the recent book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism.
Key Highlights
Who is Mamata Banerjee?
How does political violence undermine democracy?
How does the failure to tackle social problems affect democracy?
Why is Indian democracy in decline?
What does India's experience teach other democracies?
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To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane
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Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India’s Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
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Lisa Disch on Representation, Constituencies, and Political Leadership
8 februari 2022 · 49 min
The tension in what we want from democratic representation is that we want control over our representatives and we want creativity from them. If we control them, they are delegates. They're not representatives. They do what we want. They act in our place instead of us. They act as we would in our place. If they give us creativity, they will bring things out of us and do things for us that we may not have imagined. Lees meer
Lisa Disch
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy here.
Lisa Disch is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan and an elected member of the Ann Arbor City Council. She is the author of the book Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy.
Key Highlights
Should elected officials serve as delegates or opinion shapers?
What is the line between leadership and manipulation?
What is the constituency paradox?
Does representation facilitate citizen mobilization?
Can realists be idealists?
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Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy by Lisa Jane Disch
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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalistic Leaders
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Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
1 februari 2022 · 48 min
For many Americans, for the first many generations really up through the mid 20th century, the constitutional order seemed to rest on and depend on an economic order in which people had enough economic clout to be independent citizens and voters. Not serfs dependent on some kind of master. Lees meer
Joseph Fishkin
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy here.
Joseph Fishkin is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He is the coauthor (along with William E. Forbath) of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy.
Key Highlights
How did Montana reform its laws to limit the influence of Amalgamated Copper?
When do questions of inequality become constitutional questions?
How did the courts undermine labor laws in the early 20th century?
What are the affirmative obligations and duties in the constitution?
What is the proper role of the courts in American politics?
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath
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Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
25 januari 2022 · 45 min
We have core ideas that form a part of our worldview, but those core ideas are not fixed in the way in which we talk about rationality and interest in that they can evolve. And we have to, when we think about human behavior, political behavior, we have to give serious attention to those ideas and go beyond just fixed material interests. Lees meer
Bilal Baloch
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India here.
Bilal Baloch is the Co-Founder and COO of Enquire, formerly GlobalWonks. He is also a non-resident visiting scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India.
Key Highlights
What was the Jayaprakash Narayanan Movement?
Why did the State of Emergency happen in India?
How do ideas influence governance?
The differences between technocratic and political leadership
Is it more important to foster a diversity of ideas or support the best ideas?
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When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India by Bilal Baloch
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Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
Kajri Jain Believes Democracy Unfolds through the Aesthetic
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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
18 januari 2022 · 42 min
If I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it's like actually true. Lees meer
Sara Wallace Goodman
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat here.
Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat.
Key Highlights
How much agency do citizens have in democracy?
The important differences between citizenship and partisanship and their implications
The role of both rights and duties for citizenship
Differences between citizenship in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
What can citizens do to protect democracy?
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Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat by Sara Wallace Goodman
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Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
Jan-Werner Müller on Democracy Rules
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Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch on Migration's Potential to Topple Dictatorships
11 januari 2022 · 46 min
This is money that flows between individuals and families and largely circumvents governments and that's a hugely important point, because the real take home of the book is that when these financial flows are controlled by citizens, it tips the balance of power in favor of citizens. When the international financial flow goes to governments, it tips the balance of power in terms of governments. Lees meer
Joseph Wright
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships here.
Joe Wright is a professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University. Abel Escribà-Folch is an associate professor of political science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. They cowrote the book Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships along with Covadonga Meseguer.
Key Highlights
How Remittances Break Clientelistic Relationships
The Size and Importance of Remittances in Developing Economies
Why Financial Remittances Facilitate Protest Movements
Can Remittances Really Contribute to Democratization
Implications for Immigration Policies
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Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships by Abel Escribà-Folch, Joseph Wright, and Covadonga Meseguer
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Michael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to Democratization
Bryn Rosenfeld on Middle Class Support for Dictators in Autocratic Regimes
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Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
4 januari 2022 · 57 min
So, the question is how do you respond to that? If you are the party that sees itself as being on the side of democracy and on the side of maintaining democratic norms and procedures and maintaining this kind of democratic accountability, how do you respond? Do you respond in kind? Do you respond with hardball tactics of your own? Lees meer
Robert Lieberman
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization? here.
Robert C. Lieberman is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Kenneth M. Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government and Binenkorb Director of Latin American Studies at Cornell University. David A. Bateman is an associate professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. Robert and Kenneth (along with Suzanne Mettler) coedited the book Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization? David is a contributor to the volume. His chapter is "Elections, Polarization, and Democratic Resilience."
Key Highlights
Why did polarization become so severe in the United States?
When did pernicious polarization start in America?
Is polarization the fault of just one party or both?
Discussion on possible judicial reforms as a solution
Can America overcome this episode of severe polarization?
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Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization? by Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman, and Kenneth M. Roberts
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Can America Preserve Democracy without Retreating from it? Robert C. Lieberman on the Four Threats
Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue are Worried About Severe Polarization
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Angus Deaton on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
28 december 2021 · 46 min
It's this sort of persistent loss of wages, which causes things like loss of marriage, people not living with their kids anymore, disintegration of communities with all of the things in those communities whether it's churches or union halls or society, just friendship that used to be there. And those are the things that cause people to lose meaning or, if you like, lose hope in their lives. Lees meer
Angus Deaton
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism here.
Angus Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics, and the coauthor (with Anne Case) of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.
Key Hightlights
What are deaths of despair and what causes them
How did the Pandemic and the Great Recession affect deaths of despair
Why does a four year college degree affect life expectancy in the United States
How has health care policy in the United States contributed to deaths of despair
Are deaths of despair an inevitable consequence of capitalism
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Angus Deaton and Anne Case
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Sheryl WuDunn Paints a Picture of Poverty in America and Offers Hope for Solutions
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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Zeynep Pamuk on the Role of Science and Expertise in a Democracy
21 december 2021 · 53 min
Science is never offering the whole truth. It may be offering us something accurate. Scientific findings may be reliable for now, but they are always incomplete. Lees meer
Zeynep Pamuk
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society here.
Zeynep Pamuk is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego and the author of the book Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society.
Key Highlights
Why is there a tension between science and democracy
The limits of science for public policy
The Proposal for a Science Court
Ways to provide greater democratic involvement in scientific funding
How have experts performed in the pandemic
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Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society by Zeynep Pamuk
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Susan Rose-Ackerman on the Role of the Executive in Four Different Democracies
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Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalist Leaders
14 december 2021 · 50 min
Charismatic leaders who are intent on governing solely using their charismatic authority and subverting other things to their personal power are inherently bad for democracy and inherently illiberal. They're anti-pluralist. They don't want to share their power with others even within their own movement or their own party. They don't tolerate dissent. Lees meer
Caitlin Andrews-Lee
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo here.
Caitlin Andrews-Lee is an Assistant Professor in Ryerson University’s Department of Politics and Public Administration. She is the author of the book, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo.
Key Highlights
A profile on Juan Perón, the prototypical charismatic leader
Why has Peronism survived its founder?
Why do the anointed successors of charismatic leaders fail?
How do new personalist leaders arise out of charismatic movements?
Is Donald Trump a harbinger of future charismatic leaders or was he an historical aberration?
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The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo by Caitlin Andrews-Lee
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Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
James Loxton Explains Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies
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Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
7 december 2021 · 44 min
The way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are. Lees meer
Stephan Haggard
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World here.
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman are the authors of the new book, Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World. Stephan is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Robert Kaufman is a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University.
Key Highlights
Describes democratic backsliding
How polarization contributes to backsliding
The role of legislatures in backsliding episodes
What it means when authoritarians "reform" judiciaries
How can citizens reverse democratic backsliding?
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Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World by Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman
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Learn more about Robert Kaufman at https://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/kaufman/
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Freedom House: Sarah Repucci Assesses Freedom in the World
Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue are Worried About Severe Polarization
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Joshua Yaffa on Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
30 november 2021 · 49 min
‘What would you prefer? Would you prefer that this boy, Vasya, die because he couldn't get dialysis? Would you prefer that this girl, Katya, die from her shrapnel wounds that she suffered during the war that was obviously not her fault? Right? Like would it be better if I held my nose and refuse to engage in these compromises so these kids died? Would you be sort of happier, so you could write about how awful the bloody Putin regime is?’ Lees meer
Joshua Yaffa explaining the perspective of Russian humanitarian Elizaveta Glinka
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia here.
Joshua Yaffa joins the podcast to discuss his new book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia. He is a correspondent for The New Yorker based primarily in Moscow, Russia.
Key Highlights
Who was Dr. Liza?
The types of compromises must Russians make with the state to pursue their dreams
The role of the Russian state in the arts through the story of theater director Kirill Serebrennikov
Legal challenges for business owners in Russia through the experience of zookeeper Oleg Zubkov
The limited space for human rights activism in Chechnya through the experience of Heda Saratova
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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
Learn more about Joshua Yaffa at www.joshuayaffa.com.
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Bryn Rosenfeld on Middle Class Support for Dictators in Autocratic Regimes
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Zoltan Barany on the Ineffectiveness of the Gulf Militaries
23 november 2021 · 52 min
The last time, and luckily this hasn't really happened since 1990, there was minimal resistance from the Kuwaiti and the Saudi forces. So, this obviously is 30 years ago, but there is little reason to believe that in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars that is spent on armaments, this state of affairs has changed. Let me just put it this way. Nobody in Tehran is losing any sleep over the prowess of any of the Gulf militaries. Lees meer
Zoltan Barany
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf here.
Zoltan Barany is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf.
Key Highlights
What should be expected of the militaries of the Gulf countries?
Would the Gulf countries be threatened without the American security guarantee?
What types of military investments do the Gulf countries make?
What has the Yemeni War taught us about armies of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries?
How does the leadership of MBS differ from MBZ?
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Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf by Zoltan Barany
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Daniel Brinks on the Politics of Institutional Weakness
Elizabeth Nugent on Polarization, Democratization and the Arab Spring
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Amory Gethin on Political Cleavages, Inequality, and Party Systems in 50 Democracies
16 november 2021 · 52 min
Indeed, the moderation of left-wing party’s economic policy proposals in the eighties and in the nineties and the decision to promote an unregulated capitalism with no kind of proper compensation and no tax harmonization leading to greater offshore wealth and rising inequality. All these decisions have played a role in leading the working class to take distance from these parties and, at the same time, enabling these new issues to take a growing importance. Lees meer
Amory Gethin
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of 50 Democracies, 1948-2020 here.
Amory Gethin is a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics and a research fellow at the world Inequality Lab. He is a coeditor (along with Clara Martinez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty) of Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of 50 Democracies, 1948-2020.
Key Highlights Include
Why have multi-elite party systems emerged in Western democracies?
Describes the divide between the "Brahmin Left" and "Merchant Right"
How do party systems differ between Western and Non-Western democracies?
Descriptions of party systems in India, Eastern Europe, and Brazil
Why have party systems changed?
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Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities. A Study of 50 Democracies, 1948-2020 edited by Amory Gethin, Clara Martinez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty
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James Loxton Explains Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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Daniel Brinks on the Politics of Institutional Weakness
9 november 2021 · 53 min
We don't think about institutions until they fail and we think of institutions as being really strong when maybe they've never been challenged. They've never really tried to do anything. Lees meer
Daniel Brinks
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America here.
Daniel Brinks joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America. He is the coeditor along with Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo. Dan is a professor of Government and of Law at the University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Researcher & Global Scholar of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation.
Key Highlights
What is institutional weakness?
How does it differ from state capacity?
How does civil society affect political institutions?
What is the role of constitutions?
How do Presidential systems affect other political institutions?
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The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America edited by Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, and María Victoria Murillo
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Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements
2 november 2021 · 50 min
What we are doing in this volume is blurring the boundaries between this older conception of top-down mobilized movements and this newer conception of bottom-up organic, spontaneous civil society propelled movements and discovering that there's an awful lot in the middle there. Lees meer
Elizabeth Perry
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements here.
Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert join the podcast to discuss their new book Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements (coedited with Xiaojun Yan). Elizabeth is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Grzegorz is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Key Highlights
What are state-mobilized movements?
Why do authoritarian regimes mobilize supporters?
The role of violence in state-mobilized movements
Why do people mobilize to support dictators?
What does it teach us about civil society?
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Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements edited by Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Yan Xiaojun
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Susan Rose-Ackerman on the Role of the Executive in Four Different Democracies
26 oktober 2021 · 44 min
Many of these things that you and I are talking about are simply initiatives put forward by the chief executive or maybe by a cabinet minister. Something they want to do and rather than something that they're required to do. And it seems to me that that's a rather fragile base on which to build a more effective participatory process, which doesn't give up on the role of technocracy and expertise. Lees meer
Susan Rose-Ackerman
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France here.
Susan Rose-Ackerman joins the podcast to discuss her new book Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France. Susan is the Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science at Yale University.
Key Highlights Include
How have executives handled the pandemic
Differences between the executives of Germany, France, UK and US
How different executives make rules to implement public statutes
Description of deliberative democracy used in France to create environmental policies
Is the administrative state democratic
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Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France by Susan Rose-Ackerman
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Tom Ginsburg Shares his Thoughts on Democracy and International Law
19 oktober 2021 · 51 min
At the end of the day, I am optimistic despite all the evidence. First of all, I think there are a lot of resources that democracies can use. A lot of areas of law, where as long as we recognize what it is we're fighting for, democracy is worth fighting for and have a common view as to what that means that we can advance it in many places, not just here but abroad. And this might sound a little hokey, but there really is a genuine human demand for freedom and that's not going away. Lees meer
Tom Ginsburg
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Democracies and International Law here.
Tom Ginsburg is a professor of international law and political science at the University of Chicago. He is the coauthor of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy with Aziz Huq and the author of Democracies and International Law.
Key Highlights Include
How is international law made and enforced?
How do democracies approach international law differently than authoritarian regimes?
Is there a right to democracy?
Differences and similarities between the approach of China and the United States towards international law.
How do regional organizations support democratic norms?
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Democracies and International Law by Tom Ginsburg
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John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism
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Robert Meister Believes Justice is an Option
12 oktober 2021 · 50 min
So, now I've developed a way of talking about revolution as an option that can't be exercised, but that still has present value and I've set up a mechanism for saying what that present value is. Namely the value of the liquidity premium that a democracy that consents to maintaining accumulated wealth can extract for guaranteeing that the wealth continues to accumulate. Lees meer
Robert Meister
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Justice is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century here.
Robert Meister is the author of the new book Justice is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century and a Professor of Social and Political Thought in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Key Highlights Include
What is historical justice?
An overview of financial terms
How is justice an option?
Is capitalism compatible with justice?
Will historical justice happen or is it just an option?
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Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century by Robert Meister
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Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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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
5 oktober 2021 · 53 min
Where you and I and, I think, many others start from an assumption that somehow there is a thing called democracy and we sort of know what it is. But the diversity within democracy is far larger than that. You know, there's clear big institutional temperamental differences between visions of representatives ruling, people ruling, and so on. All these sorts of things are different models of democracy and therefore the word democracy in some respects becomes rather meaningless. Lees meer
Martin Conway
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 here.
Martin Conway is the author of the new book Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 and a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford.
Key Highlights Include
Why Democracy Became Part of Western Europe's Identity
How Democracy was a Process of Continual Negotiation
The Distinct Characteristics of Democracy in Western Europe
An Account of the Transition from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic in France
Lessons for Democracy Today from Western Europe's Past
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Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Martin Conway
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman
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Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
Michael Hughes on the History of Democracy in Germany
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Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
28 september 2021 · 49 min
The most beautiful thing that happened in Indonesia, by the way, which was a polarized society along religious lines more than anything else, was that by the end of the proceedings, everybody knew what everybody else's problems were, what everyone else's constituencies wanted. They knew if X noticed that Y was making a demand, before long X figured out what was behind the demand and why Y had to make it and whether it was a real demand or whether it was made just for the sake of being on record. Lees meer
Donald Horowitz
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment here.
Donald Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University.
Key Highlights Include
Accounts of constitutional formation in Tunisia, Indonesia, and Malaysia
The role of consensus
The challenges of negotiated constitutions
The need for an inclusive process
Why citizen participation is not always beneficial
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Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment by Donald Horowitz
"Ethnic Power Sharing: Three Big Problems" by Donald Horowitz in the Journal of Democracy
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Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
Hélène Landemore on Democracy without Elections
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Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley on the Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
21 september 2021 · 53 min
Up to today, since the Mexican government deployed the military in 2006 up to the present, Mexico has experienced close to 200,000 battle deaths. That's roughly the number of battle deaths that took place in the civil war in Guatemala. So, the 36 year old civil war in Guatemala that produced approximately 200,000 battle deaths. That's where Mexico is right now. Lees meer
Guillermo Trejo
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Mexican politics here.
Guillermo Trejo is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Sandra Ley is an Assistant Professor at CIDE’s Political Studies Division in Mexico City. They are the authors of Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico.
Key Highlights Include
A vivid description of the effects of the criminal wars in Mexico
How autocracy allows for the proliferation of organized crime
Why Mexico remains an 'illiberal democracy'
How polarization exacerbated criminal violence in Mexico
The importance of deeper degrees of democratization
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Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico by Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley
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Michael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to Democratization
James Loxton Explains Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies
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Rana Siu Inboden on China and the International Human Rights Regime
14 september 2021 · 50 min
Chinese participation in the human rights regime probably was never really intended to alter human rights so much in China that it would jeopardize the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power. I think China, even if it may have been open to some areas of human rights, I think that we have to keep in mind that the full implementation of human rights including all of the elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would mean that political competition is allowed. And that's just not something I see the current Chinese regime allowing. Lees meer
Rana Siu Inboden
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on the human rights regime here.
Rana Siu Inboden is a senior fellow with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas–Austin. Her new book is China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982-2017.
Key Highlights Include
What is the Human Rights Regime
China's Participation in the Human Rights Regime
How Tiananmen Changed China's View on Human Rights
What is the Like Minded Group
How China Views Human Rights
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China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982-2017 by Rana Siu Inboden
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Timothy Frye Says Putin is a Weak Strongman
7 september 2021 · 48 min
Putin in the past could claim to have won at least an honest plurality, if not an honest majority of votes given his approval. However, in the upcoming election this fall, in September, it looks like the Kremlin has so restricted political competition that it's going to be a difficult sell to the Russian public to show that these elections are even as legitimate as the elections held in 2016 or in 2011. Lees meer
Timothy Frye
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on personalism here.
Timothy Frye is a Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University and a research director at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Key Highlights Include
Is Putin's popularity real?
Why Russia holds elections at all
Description of Russia as a personalist autocracy
How autocracy shapes Russia's foreign policy
What are the prospects for democratization in Russia
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Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
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Kathryn Stoner on Russia's Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
31 augustus 2021 · 38 min
Biden's current policy is, you know, we want Putin to calm down, be stable for awhile and turn our focus to restraining China. I don't think that's going to happen. That's not in his interest to do that. So, I think taking our eye off Russia, underestimating it, is the biggest concern for the U.S. currently. Lees meer
Kathryn Stoner
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Russia here.
Kathryn Stoner is a professor of political science at Stanford University. Her new book is Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order.
Key Highlights Include
A description of Russia's economy
An account of Russia's military reforms
Why Russia is in the Middle East
Explanation of Russia's foreign policy
Is a resurrected Russia a danger to the West?
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Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order by Kathryn Stoner
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Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy
24 augustus 2021 · 45 min
It was an era in which lawmakers and office holders learned that imprecision could actually work to their benefit to allow them to do what they wanted to because there was unclear codification in the law. And so yes, everybody talks about, we have to revise this law or get rid of this law or replace this law. But I want to say, it's not about that. It's about what constitutes a legitimately written, voted upon law. And I think that's something we still haven't countered since 9/11. Lees meer
Karen Greenberg
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on the War on Terror here.
Karen Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, a fellow at New America, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her new book is Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump.
Key Highlights Include
The origin of the AUMF and the Department of Homeland Security
Karen Greenberg describes the subtle tools
The link between the War on Terror and President Trump
How will history view the 2020 election
Is the United States an illiberal democracy?
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Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump by Karen Greenberg
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Charles Kupchan on America's Tradition of Isolationism
17 augustus 2021 · 51 min
Beginning in the 1990s, and then really picking up after 9/11, the United States overreached ideologically by thinking it could turn Iraq and Afghanistan into Ohio. It overreached economically by throwing open the nation's doors and saying the more trade, the better. And suddenly, I think, Americans said to themselves and to their leaders, ‘Wait a minute. Too much world, not enough America.' Lees meer
Charles Kupchan
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Isolationism here.
Charles Kupchan is a professor of international relations at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.
Key Highlights Include
Isolationism's Place in America's National Identity
The Relationship Between Isolationism and American Exceptionalism
A Brief History of Isolationism in the United States
Similarities Between the Rise of China and the Early United States
Donald Trump and the Reemergence of Isolationism
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Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World by Charles Kupchan
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Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon on the End of American Hegemony
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Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
10 augustus 2021 · 45 min
It's not just inequality of wealth. It is not just inequality of income, which is big. It's also inequality in terms of the geographical clustering of different strata of the population, of different people. It's inequality in life experiences. It's inequality in treatment. People felt mistreated by those in the upper echelons of society. So, it's not just money. It's also access to public goods, to certain spaces in the city, to education, unemployment benefits, and all sorts of things. But also, treatment. Lees meer
Aldo Madariaga
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Neoliberalism here.
Aldo Madariaga is a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales, and Associate Researcher at Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). He is also the author of Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Key Highlights Include
An Account of the Chilean Protests in 2019
Description of Neoliberalism as a Political Project
The Role of the State in Neoliberalism
How does Neoliberalism Shield its Policies from Democracy
Are Neoliberal Policies Fundamentally Undemocratic?
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Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe by Aldo Madariaga
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Roger Lee Huang on Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Tatmadaw
3 augustus 2021 · 47 min
I think this actually reflects why we've seen a coup now. Clearly, the coup has really brought serious economic devastation for the entire country and the military itself will also not benefit from this. And that to me is the key, because they're not primarily motivated just by economic incentives and spoils. As a systematic military institution, it is driven by their own identity. Their own perception of what the Myanmar modern nation state should look like. Lees meer
Roger Lee Huang
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Myanmar here.
Roger Lee Huang is a lecturer in terrorism studies and political violence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the author of The Paradox of Myanmar’s Regime Change.
Key Highlights Include
A brief history of modern Myanmar (Burma)
Description of the Tatmadaw
A portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi
Why is the National League for Democracy (NLD) so popular
What are the prospects for democracy in Myanmar
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The Paradox of Myanmar's Regime Change by Roger Lee Huang
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Mallory SoRelle on the Politics of Consumer Credit
27 juli 2021 · 50 min
Americans are expected to take on debt, because that's how we're expected to finance everything from basic needs to a college education. And that's a function of economic policy making. That doesn't happen by accident. Lees meer
Mallory SoRelle
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Mallory SoRelle is an assistant professor of public policy at Duke University and the author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection.
Key Highlights Include
How the American economy depends on credit
A brief history of consumer credit in America
Details why consumer debt is a systemic problem
Why financial consumers do not politically mobilize
Explains how public policy shapes political behavior
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Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection by Mallory SoRelle
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David Stasavage on Early Democracy and its Decline
20 juli 2021 · 46 min
This was not a phenomenon to one specific region. This was nothing that got invented in one place and at one time. It seems to have emerged independently in a wide, wide variety of human societies at different points in time. And to me, that sounds like something that occurs naturally. Lees meer
David Stasavage
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
David Stasavage is the Dean of Social Sciences and a Professor of Politics at New York University. His latest book is called The Decline and Rise of Democracy.
Key Highlights Include
A description of early democracy with an example of the Huron people
Why autocracy arose through the example of Ancient China
How bureaucracy and the state changed governance
How English history shaped modern democracy
What modern democracy can learn from early forms of democracy
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The Decline and Rise of Democracy by David Stasavage
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Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
13 juli 2021 · 50 min
The police is even acting directly against the minorities and the Delhi riots of 2020 showed that the police could be on their side in the street in their rioting activities. This is exactly the same in other BGP ruled states like Uttar Pradesh. Now you have indeed a kind of new shift, if you want. It's not only with the blessing of the state. It’s also with the active participation of the state. Lees meer
Christophe Jaffrelot
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Christophe Jaffrelot is a director of research at Sciences Po and a professor of Indian politics and sociology at King’s College. His latest book is Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy.
Key Highlights Include
Description of Hindutva or Hindu Nationalism
A brief account of the RSS
An account of the Ayodhya Temple Controversy
Explains how Narendra Modi came to power
Prospects for the future of Indian democracy
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Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
"Toward a Hindu State" by Christophe Jaffrelot in the Journal of Democracy
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Jan-Werner Müller on Democracy Rules
6 juli 2021 · 48 min
It really matters how you set up conflict and how you talk about the issue and above all how you talk about your adversary. That's where I see the decisive difference between those who tend to invoke the people, the common good and et cetera, in a way that is compatible with democracy and then those who talk in a way that, ultimately, is bound to be dangerous for democracy. Lees meer
Jan-Werner Müller
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Jan is a professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. He is the author of the books What is Populism? and Democracy Rules.
Key Highlights Include
What does it mean to be undemocratic in a democracy
Why populism threatens democracy
Role of conflict in democracy
What is militant democracy and is it democratic
Role of the majority and opposition in democracy
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Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
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Dorothy Sue Cobble on the Full Rights Feminists
29 juni 2021 · 51 min
They wanted the full array of rights. Political rights, yes, they were active in the suffrage movement, but they also wanted economic rights and social rights. They wanted to lessen inequalities. They also wanted the rights of mothers and of children advanced. Lees meer
Dorothy Sue Cobble
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Dorothy Sue Cobble is the Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies Emerita at Rutgers University and the author of For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality.
Key Highlights Include
Dorothy explains who the full rights feminists were and what they advocated for
Profiles of full rights feminists like Frances Perkins
How full rights feminism influenced the New Deal
A brief history of the conflicts between full rights feminists and equal rights feminists over the Equal Rights Amendment
A profile of early Japanese feminist Tanaka Taka
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For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality by Dorothy Sue Cobble
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Freedom House: Sarah Repucci Assesses Freedom in the World
22 juni 2021 · 43 min
Democracy is about more than elections. Election day is very important, but what is happening in the country every other day is an integral part to what a democracy is and if you think about the fundamental freedoms that we think of in our own democracy: free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association and assembly, also things like the independence of the judiciary, these are all things that are on the civil liberties side. Lees meer
Sarah Repucci
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Sarah Repucci is the Vice President of Research and Analysis at Freedom House and coauthor (alongside Amy Slipowitz) of the executive summary of the report Freedom in the World 2021: Democracy Under Siege.
* Note * Sarah's mic died early in the interview. The audio quality is not bad, but will sound different. Hopefully it does not take away from the quality of the interview.
Key Highlights Include
Why democracy continues its steady decline
The influence of China and the U.S. on global democracy
The role of civil liberties in democracy
Impact of the pandemic on democracy
Discussion of democracy in India, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, and the United States
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Read the landmark report from Freedom House Freedom in the World 2021: Democracy Under Siege
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Michael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to Democratization
15 juni 2021 · 46 min
So many cases of democratization start with these episodes and this period of elite political violence where the initial stages of it have nothing to do with democratization. People are not aiming for that. People are barely even thinking about it. It's all about this elite political struggle and out of that chaos a bit later you get democracy. Lees meer
Michael Miller
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Michael Miller is a professor of political science and international relations at George Washington University and the author of the forthcoming book Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization.
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How violent shocks like coups and civil wars create openings for democratization
Why autocratic ruling parties continue to win elections in democracies
The role for democratic activists in the democratization process
Discussions on possibilities for democracy in China, Belarus, and Myanmar.
Mike offers a blueprint for an unconventional approach for democracy promotion
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Daniel Carpenter Revisits the Petition in 19th Century America
8 juni 2021 · 47 min
The idea of a political system is not simply to be efficient. It's to have justice. It's to have the idea that anybody can come to the seat of power and say, 'Here are my grievances,' and that doesn't mean that by making that claim, they will get exactly what they want. But it does mean that they will get a hearing and in that notion, I think, lies again, a certain part of democracy that is not reduceable just to elections. Lees meer
Daniel Carpenter
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Dan Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870.
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A history of petitions in the 19th century including an account of the gag rule.
The role of petitions in the mobilization of women, Native Americans, the Whig Party, and the antislavery movement
How did petitions contribute to democratization of America in the 19th century
What would Congress look like if we still had 'petition days'
What can we learn from the era of petition politics
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Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870 by Daniel Carpenter
"The Menthol Cigarette Ban Shows There Is No Democracy Without Petitions," by Daniel Carpenter, Boston Review
"Robust Claims of Vast Lawlessness" from Lapham's Quarterly by Daniel Carpenter
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Sebastian Strangio Explains the Relationship Between China and Southeast Asia
1 juni 2021 · 45 min
The experience of Western colonization has imprinted all of these nations in profound ways and it's tended to inculcate a sort of skepticism about Western invocations of democracy and the rule of law. China, of course, shares a similar skepticism. China was also not formerly colonized, or not fully colonized by Western powers, but it experienced what the Chinese communist party likes to term a century of humiliation. And so, both regions share an abiding ambivalence about the current international order. Lees meer
Sebastian Strangio
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Sebastian Strangio is the Southeast Asia Editor at The Diplomat and the author of In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century.
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Sebastian explains the economic, political, and cultural ties between China and Southeast Asia
An overview of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
An explanation of the South China Sea dispute
Distinguishes between maritime and mainland nations in Southeast Asia
China's approach to Southeast Asia under Xi Jinping
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Can America Preserve Democracy without Retreating from it? Robert C. Lieberman on the Four Threats
25 mei 2021 · 49 min
Racism and racial conflict are always there, always a powerful and important part of American politics. But when they combine with polarization, with this kind of partisan antagonism, and when that becomes the dividing line between the parties, that's really dangerous. That's what happened in the 1850s. It led to civil war. That's what happened in the 1890s. It led to violent conflict and mass disenfranchisement. And it's happening again today. Lees meer
Robert C. Lieberman
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
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An account of the 1898 insurrection in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Is polarization the fault of both sides or is one party responsible?
How the election of 1896 affected American democracy.
How polarization, conflicts over who belongs, rising economic inequality, and executive aggrandizement interact to threaten democracy in the United States.
Does the preservation of democracy really require democratic backsliding?
Robert Lieberman is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and coauthored Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy with Suzanne Mettler.
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy by Robert C. Lieberman and Suzanne Mettler
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Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
18 mei 2021 · 54 min
In the 19th century Europe had thought that they had moved towards liberalism, enlightenment, rationality, progress, that stuff like mass warfare was over and it wouldn't come back. And then you have four years of senseless, mass slaughter, they just totally destroyed or challenged those ideas of humankind getting better off, progress of humankind getting more civilized. In retrospect, it's hard to imagine the coincidence of deep challenges and crises that wrecked the interwar years. Lees meer
Kurt Weyland
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Kurt clarifies the concept of totalitarian fascism from conservative authoritarianism
A description of the political environment of the interwar period
Why did authoritarians disliked communism and fascism?
Why did fascism emerge during this period?
Is there a parallel between the interwar period to today?
Kurt Weyland is a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the new book Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years.
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Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years by Kurt Weyland
"The Real Lessons of the Interwar Years" by Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning in Journal of Democracy, July 2017
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James Loxton Explains Why Authoritarian Successor Parties Succeed in Democracies
11 mei 2021 · 55 min
They really view their history as one of victimization, one of struggle and even martyrdom. ARENA had multiple leaders assassinated. Again, that version of history that I just told you, that's not necessarily my view. But I do actually believe that that is their sincere belief and it makes for a really compelling founding myth if you will. And I think that founding myth has helped to hold both parties together right up until the present day. Lees meer
James Loxton
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Why do voters elect leaders with ties to former dictators?
Description of authoritarian successor parties
Challenges for conservative party formation
A brief history of the UDI in Chile and ARENA in El Salvador
The role of counterrevolutionary struggle
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Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle by James Loxton
"Authoritarian Successor Parties" by James Loxton in Journal of Democracy, July 2015
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Derek W. Black Says Public Education Represents the Idea of America... Not its Reality
4 mei 2021 · 52 min
I find it hard to believe, without a lot more justification than they're offering that somehow that there's this new secret sauce to opportunity and equality and democracy that does not involve public education as the fundamental pillar. So you have people arguing that it's not. They're not saying we want to destroy democracy, but I'm saying, you as reader, you as listeners, need to think about the long-term consequences of shrinking the public education footprint and moving back into a siloed or a fiefdom or a private system that resembles our darkest days. Lees meer
Derek W. Black
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Derek explains the case for a right to education.
A brief history of public education in the United States
How the NAACP used the language of democracy in their litigation for school desegregation
Why vouchers and charter schools threaten public education
Finally, the intersection of public education and democracy runs throughout the conversation
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Sheryl WuDunn Paints a Picture of Poverty in America and Offers Hope for Solutions
27 april 2021 · 47 min
That's why all Americans should care. Because the cost of poverty is not just the cost to that person who is in poverty. It's a cost to all of society. We're all paying for people being jailed. We're all paying for extra costs in the legal system, in the police force, in the healthcare system. Lees meer
Sheryl WuDunn
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Stories of Poverty and Inequality in America
Challenges in America in Education, Health, and Well-Being
Impact of Poverty on Children with an Explanation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Collective Responsibility to Solve Social Problems
Rethinking of Social Programs as Investments Rather than Outlays
Sheryl WuDunn is a pulitzer prize winning reporter, business executive, and the author of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (along with her husband Nicholas Kristof).
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Mike Hoffman on How Religious Identities Influence Support for or Opposition to Democracy
20 april 2021 · 54 min
Doctrine is actually often a lot looser and more subject to interpretation than we tend to assume and the way that the doctrine gets interpreted is often partially a function of group interests themselves. If you have a religious group in a given country that believes it would benefit from democracy, it's pretty likely that that group will find a way to interpret and frame its doctrine in a way that supports democracy. Lees meer
- Mike Hoffman
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Role of Religion in Identity Formation
How Communal Prayer Shapes Religious Identity
Ways Group Interests Shape Perspectives on Democracy
Description of Lebanon's Political System
Why Some Groups Oppose Democracy
Mike Hoffman is a professor of political science at Notre Dame and the author of Faith in Numbers: Religion, Sectarianism, and Democracy.
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Shari Davis Elevates Participatory Budgeting
13 april 2021 · 53 min
Participatory budgeting is actually about connecting folks with the skills and resources to navigate and shape government. And so, for me, that is the most optimistic and the most important outcome of any participatory budgeting process. Lees meer
Shari Davis
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A walk through the process of participatory budgeting with an example
The history of participatory budgeting around the world
An example of participatory budgeting in China
The Role of Art in Democracy
Next steps for Participatory Budgeting
Shari Davis leads the Participatory Budget Project as its Executive Director. They have over 15 years working in local government beginning in high school. And not long ago they were honored as an Obama Fellow.
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Chris Bickerton Defines Technopopulism
6 april 2021 · 43 min
That tension between the politics of the whole and the politics of the part, that tension between the politics of generality and the politics of particularity, is really at the heart of party democracy. What we are sort of trying to capture, I suppose, with technopopulism is to think of a form of politics where that tension has simply gone. Lees meer
Chris Bickerton
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- Chris describes Technopopulism through an explanation of the Five Star Movement in Italy
- We discuss how populists and technologists consider expertise
- How technopopulism is different from classic interest-based politics
- We discuss ANO and the Pirate Party in the Czech Republic
- Barak Obama is analyzed in the lens of technopopulism
- Chris explains how he thinks we can move beyond technopopulism
Chris Bickerton is a reader of of Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge. Alongside Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, he is the coauthor of Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics. He is also a frequent panelist on Talking Politics.
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Ross Benes on Nebraska and Rural Conservatism
30 maart 2021 · 46 min
The legislature is one of several examples of our history of being independent which is why I think it was such an important story to tell of Nebraska becoming like baptized into Republican orthodoxy. Because seeing that shift. That it wasn't always that way. We founded Arbor day in this state, we settle a lot of refugees per capita, we increased minimum wage, and Medicaid through ballot measures recently. We do stuff like that.
- Ross Benes Lees meerA full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.
Red states and blue states. Republicans and Democrats. Rural and urban. Polarization. It is a term often heard about American politics. Most states find their politics lean heavily toward one party or the other. And Nebraska is no different. It is a very conservative state so it makes sense for it to elect Republicans.
But not too long ago Democrats competed for state offices. In fact, Nebraska had at least one Democratic Senator from 1977 until 2012. It’s really only been the last ten years where Democrats could not compete in the state.
Of course, the Democrats it elected were about as conservative as many Republicans. But Nebraska also has a history of progressive reforms. In fact, it was often rural America who championed many of the progressive ideas in the early twentieth century.
This realization has caused me to go through a variety of different counterfactuals. Like why are rural Americans conservative and urban Americans liberal? Is there a scenario where this is reversed? I’m not looking to rewrite history. I just want to understand how politics change over time. And maybe where it is going next. Because history shows some of the things we take for granted have not always been that way.
My guest Ross Benes grew up in Nebraska before moving to New York City. He has the kind of expat perspective that has given so many writers both clarity and insight. His recent book is Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold.
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Chad Alan Goldberg on the Wisconsin Idea and the Role of the Public University in a Democracy
23 maart 2021 · 53 min
They had an obligation to take the knowledge that they were developing, to take their expertise and put it in the service of the community as a whole and the service of its elected leaders. Lees meer
Chad Alan Goldberg
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Wisconsin was at the forefront of the Progressive Movement. Wisconsin adopted the first modern state income tax. It initiated the first workers’ compensation plan. It enacted the first unemployment insurance program. Wisconsin even spearheaded important constitutional reforms like the direct election of Senators. UW Madison Professor Patrick Brenzel explains, “To say that Wisconsin was known nationally for transparent and egalitarian government is an understatement.”
These reforms were the product of a relationship between the public university, legislators, and other stakeholders. It is known as the Wisconsin Idea. The Wisconsin Idea is a belief the public university has a role to contribute its research to the service of the state. A common motto is “The boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state.”
The Wisconsin Idea remains central to the mission of the University of Wisconsin system to this day, but has become the subject of attacks from conservatives in recent years. Among the many efforts by Scott Walker to dismantle the administrative state included an attempt to remove the Wisconsin Idea from the university charter. It failed, but it highlights how there is a genuine debate about the role of public universities.
Chad Alan Goldberg has been at the forefront of the effort to defend the Wisconsin Idea in recent years. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the editor of the volume Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea. This book features chapters from many leading scholars in a variety of disciplines including Kathy Cramer.
Our conversation discusses some of the history behind the Wis…