Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 748
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of col…
1 year, 5 months ago
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 747
Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: …
1 year, 5 months ago
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 201
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators …
1 year, 5 months ago
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 5 months ago
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
Episode 37
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of …
1 year, 5 months ago
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?
Episode 24
Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political mi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Episode 31
Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential Elect…
1 year, 5 months ago
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 285
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the str…
1 year, 5 months ago
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 285
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the str…
1 year, 5 months ago
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 746
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and d…
1 year, 5 months ago