Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIhnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Episode 41
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and s…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
What Democracy Does… and Does Not Do
Episode 745
This week on Democratic Dialogues, host Rachel Beatty Riedl welcomes Maya Tudor, Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Episode 744
At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922–1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to …
1 year ago
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 787
Political Scientists Jack Greenberg (Yale University) and John Dearborn (Vanderbilt University) have a new book that focuses on the idea of president…
1 year ago
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 742
Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the e…
1 year ago
Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 190
A series of market-related crises over the past two decades – financial, environmental, health, education, poverty – reinvigorated the debate about m…
1 year ago
Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 741
Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with liberal norms and procedures? The so-c…
1 year ago
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 403
Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the…
1 year ago
Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 738
What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world? In The Politics of World Heritage (Oxford …
1 year ago
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
Episode 737
A podcast from Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy Center on Global Democracy
About the Podcast
Each week, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Rie…
1 year ago