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Back to SearchClaudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 5
Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extorti…
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James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Episode 114
Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 728
When the draft majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health was leaked, the media, public officials, and scholars focused on the overturning …
1 year, 8 months ago
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 65
It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly th…
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How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?
Episode 11
In this episode, host LSE Southeast Asia Centre Director John Sidel speaks with Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany and a l…
1 year, 8 months ago
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 195
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African count…
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Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
Episode 158
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
Episode 221
After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The…
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Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
Episode 157
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
1 year, 8 months ago
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 727
This year, many countries around the world, including most of the world's most populous democracies, have consequential nation-wide elections. In man…
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