Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 14
Why do supposedly accountability-enhancing electoral reforms often fail in young democracies? How can legislators serve their constituents when parti…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 165
In his new book, The Political Economy of Security (Princeton University Press, 2026), Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretical…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 V-Dem Report
Episode 851
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Kenneth Roberts and Paul Friesen, democracy experts at Cornell University, to …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 849
Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Episode 848
Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 847
The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.
Peasant farming was once an inte…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Episode 846
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, has been writing about war for decades, including in his book Bombing to Win: Air Po…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)
Episode 845
Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives a …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)
Episode 844
In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroe…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 842
Giant companies, launch rockets into space, control satellite communication and develop era-defining AI technologies. But they are also seen as promo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago