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Back to SearchRonald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 343
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amou…
1 year, 10 months ago
All About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy
Episode 15
Election campaigns are becoming ever more expensive, with many parties and candidates spending large sums of money on advertising, campaign materials…
1 year, 10 months ago
South Africa Goes to the Polls
Episode 192
On May 29, South Africans voted in the seventh election since the end of political apartheid in the early 1990s. This is the first election in which …
1 year, 10 months ago
Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 718
Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Nisrin Elamin on the Conflict in Sudan
Episode 191
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belo…
1 year, 10 months ago
Democratic Crisis in Senegal
Episode 190
Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed the country’s presidential elections originally scheduled for February 25. It's part of a series of con…
1 year, 10 months ago
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 719
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is the concluding text in political theorist Eileen…
1 year, 10 months ago
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 102
A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024), C…
1 year, 10 months ago
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 33
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Marc C. Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Episode 259
The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it's easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbu…
1 year, 10 months ago