Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid C. Young et al., "Policy Matters: Perspectives, Procedures, and Processes" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
Episode 23
Never have policy initiatives been so important than in today’s society. Neoliberal manifestations, climate change, civil rights movements, and gover…
2 years, 2 months ago
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Episode 179
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of ge…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White
Episode 96
"An air of finality pervades today’s world." That is the opening sentence of Jonathan White’s book In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea (P…
2 years, 2 months ago
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 59
Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority po…
2 years, 2 months ago
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)
Episode 209
In Among the Braves Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battles for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (Hachette, 2023) Shibani Mahtani and Ti…
2 years, 2 months ago
Petra Alderman, "Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 139
What does nation-branding mean to you? For many listeners, the term probably conjures up ideas of catchy slogans and international tourism or trade p…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Conflict in Sudan
Episode 178
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 333
For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying inf…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 81
What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to …
2 years, 2 months ago
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 247
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant w…
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