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| 08 Feb 2022 | Lisa Disch on Representation, Constituencies, and Political Leadership | 00:50:21 | |
The tension in what we want from democratic representation is that we want control over our representatives and we want creativity from them. If we control them, they are delegates. They're not representatives. They do what we want. They act in our place instead of us. They act as we would in our place. If they give us creativity, they will bring things out of us and do things for us that we may not have imagined. Lisa Disch
Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy by Lisa Jane Disch Learn about Lisa Disch at the University of Michigan
Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalistic Leaders More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 15 Feb 2022 | Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane on the Decline of Indian Democracy | 00:54:38 | |
You treat votes as equal. My vote is equal to your vote. But the state treats our bodies as unequal. That logically makes no sense and it is farcical to call it a democracy in the first place. Forget what implications this will have for democracy in the long-term, but to be called a democracy and to have your bodies treated differently is a farce in itself. Debasish Roy Chowdhury
To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane Learn more about Debasish Roy Chowdhury Learn more about John Keane
Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India’s Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 22 Feb 2022 | Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities | 00:46:17 | |
If you're actually a real person and you're living your life and you're going into stores and you're riding on a bus or your kids are going to school, what matters is that you be treated with respect. That you have a dignity. And that, I think, at every point that matters most to us is what the book has wound up being about. It’s an essay on respect as a condition of a liberal democracy. Paul Sniderman
The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman Learn more about the Digital Social Science Core Facility including The Norwegian Citizen Panel Learn more about Paul Sniderman
Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats Mike Hoffman on How Religious Identities Influence Support for or Opposition to Democracy More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 01 Mar 2022 | Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World | 00:41:30 | |
You can't protect basic human rights if you don't have democracy. If you're going to protect basic human rights, you need to have things like credible institutions that hold abusers to account. You need to have opportunities for the least advantaged in a society. The people whose rights are most at risk to be able to choose their leaders and choose leaders who will represent them and serve their interests. You need leaders that serve for the common good, not for their own personal gain. Sarah Repucci
Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule by Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz Learn more about Freedom House Follow Freedom House on Twitter @freedomhouse
Freedom House: Sarah Repucci Assesses Freedom in the World Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 08 Mar 2022 | Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance | 00:48:52 | |
It wasn't because Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood darn well what they were supposed to have. But they never even got the minimum of what they were promised in the constitution. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili Learn more about the Center for Governance and Markets Follow Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Twitter @jmurtazashvili Follow Ilia Murtazashvili on Twitter @IMurtazashvili
David Stasavage on Early Democracy and its Decline More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 15 Mar 2022 | Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power | 00:37:44 | |
But what we have now is something that has not been sufficiently discussed, sufficiently understood, which is a criminalized state of which Russia is an example, in the Balkans we have some examples, in Latin America Venezuela stands out as an example. And that is essentially that the state becomes an organized criminal organization. An organization that essentially uses the structure, strategies, tactics, modalities of organized crime. Moisés Naím
The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century by Moisés Naím Follow Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Twitter @MoisesNaim
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalistic Leaders More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 22 Mar 2022 | Between Russia and China: Anja Mihr on Central Asia | 00:53:12 | |
Russia... will lose ground here in the region over the next decade and China will fill it, because the Europeans are not doing it. The United States is not doing it. Iran is not doing it and Turkey cannot do it either. Anja Mihr
Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West: Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region edited by Anja Mihr Follow Anja Mihr on Twitter @AnjaMihr Democracy Paradox Podcast Timothy Frye Says Putin is a Weak Strongman More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 29 Mar 2022 | Miles Rapoport on How We Can Achieve Universal Voting | 00:46:58 | |
I have worked on voting issues for 35 years, for same-day registration and for opening up the process to younger people and preregistration, and, you know, nevertheless 35 years later we're still at 60 and 65%. 2020 was the highest turnout election ever and it was at 66%. So, I started to think what is it that could really, really move the needle and change the game. Miles Rapoport
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting by Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne Learn about Miles Rapoport at Harvard University Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting Democracy Paradox Podcast Shari Davis Elevates Participatory Budgeting Lee Drutman Makes the Case for Multiparty Democracy in America More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 05 Apr 2022 | Craig Whitlock on the Lessons Learned in Afghanistan | 00:59:24 | |
It's still shocking to me to read a lot of these documents and interviews in, The Afghanistan Papers, things that most people would think are obvious. What's the plan to end the war? What benchmarks do we have to achieve so that we know we can leave? You know, none of those things were thought out or articulated. Craig Whitlock
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock Afghanistan Papers Document Database at The Washington Post "At War With Truth" by Craig Whitlock Democracy Paradox Podcast Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 12 Apr 2022 | Mark Beissinger on Contemporary Urban Civic Revolutions | 00:50:34 | |
I think the revolutionary process has become somewhat less consequential in some ways. The ability to bring about substantive change in the wake of revolution has deteriorated for one thing. We've gained certain things as well. I mean, revolutions are no longer as violent as they once were. They're more frequent than they once were, almost more normal in terms of being part of the political landscape in a way that they were not in the past. Mark Beissinger
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion by Mark Beissinger Learn more about Mark Beissinger at Princeton University Learn more about Mark Beissinger at Wikipedia Democracy Paradox Podcast Erica Chenoweth on Civil Resistance More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 19 Apr 2022 | Yascha Mounk on the Great Experiment of Diverse Democracies | 00:51:18 | |
So, there's actually something about the basic mechanism of democracy that does make it harder to sustain diversity. In other ways, the principles of liberal democracy are the right solution. And so, obviously my vision for the future is that of a diverse democracy. But we shouldn't be at ease about the ways in which democracy can sometimes inflame ethnic and religious tensions as well. Yascha Mounk
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk Read more from Yascha Mounk at Persuassion Follow Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 26 Apr 2022 | Marta Dyczok and Andriy Kulykov on the Media, Information Warriors, and the Future of Ukraine | 00:54:13 | |
I heard a verified story of a person who made his way with his family from an occupied town listening to our broadcast, because we were telling them where it was dangerous for them to go and where it was more or less safe to go. So, radio actually saves lives. I probably cannot save lives otherwise. But I can with the help of radio. Andriy Kulykov
Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016–2019 edited by Marta Dyczok Listen to the Ukraine Calling Podcast Learn more about Hromadske Radio
Between Russia and China: Anja Mihr on Central Asia Joshua Yaffa on Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 03 May 2022 | Thomas Piketty on Equality | 00:31:31 | |
Pure economic factors or technological factors or the level of economic development or level of technological development cannot explain the diversity of levels of inequality and structure of inequality that we observe throughout history. Thomas Piketty
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty Follow Thomas Piketty on Twitter @PikettyLeMonde
Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 10 May 2022 | Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression | 00:51:54 | |
So, if your aim is to get inside someone's device without their permission and gather up information, you could do that using a very sophisticated commercial spyware technology like Pegasus. The latest iteration of it employs zero click technology meaning that it can target and insert itself on any device without the owner of that device even knowing or being tricked into clicking on a link. That's very powerful, because there is no defense against it. Ronald Deibert
Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture "Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy" by Ronald Deibert "Subversion Inc: The Age of Private Espionage" by Ronald Deibert in Journal of Democracy Democracy Paradox Podcast Can Democracy Survive the Internet? Nate Persily and Josh Tucker on Social Media and Democracy More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 13 May 2022 | Dan Banik is In Pursuit of Development | 00:37:06 | |
This bonus episode is part of a series of interviews available for monthly supporters of Democracy Paradox at Patreon. Other interviews feature guests like Julia Azari, Mila Atmos, and Bob Shrum. But more importantly you'll help the podcast cover important expenses and continue to grow. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter by clicking on the link here. Follow on Twitter @GlobalDevPod Follow Dan on Twitter @danbanik Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 17 May 2022 | Scott Radnitz on Why Conspiracy Theories Thrive in Both Democracies and Autocracies | 00:51:30 | |
There's something natural and organic about perceiving that the people in power are out to advance their own interests. It's in part because it’s often true. Governments actually do keep secrets from the public. Politicians engage in scandals. There often is corruption at high levels. So, we don't want citizens in a democracy to be too trusting of their politicians. It's healthy to be skeptical of the state and its real abuses and tendencies towards secrecy. The danger is when this distrust gets redirected, not toward the state, but targets innocent people who are not actually responsible for people's problems. Scott Radnitz
"Why Democracy Fuels Conspiracy Theories" by Scott Radnitz in Journal of Democracy Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region by Scott Radnitz Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns edited by Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz
Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 24 May 2022 | Kathryn Stoner on How Putin's War has Ruined Russia | 00:40:48 | |
Boeing is pulling out, DuPont, Erickson, Analog Devices, Bombardier. Eventually all of these things are going to cause supply and production chain issues and unemployment in Russia. So, Mr. Putin doesn't have an infinite amount of time before havoc is wrought. Kathryn Stoner
"How Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ruined Russia" by Kathryn Stoner in Journal of Democracy Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order by Kathryn Stoner Follow Kathryn Stoner on Twitter @kath_stoner
Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power Kathryn Stoner on Russia’s Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 31 May 2022 | Dan Slater on Indonesia. Democracy in Hard Places | 00:51:11 | |
This might sound like a cliche, but in Indonesia it's really, really true. My hope rests in the Indonesian people and the voters. I mean, the voters, they show up. The voters have been the ones to defend democracy. They've been the ones to reject the most anti-pluralistic candidates, not all Indonesian voters, but a slim majority. They've been managing to do it. Dan Slater
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater and Joseph Wong Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud Follow Dan Slater on Twitter @SlaterPolitics
Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions Sebastian Strangio Explains the Relationship Between China and Southeast Asia More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 07 Jun 2022 | Evan Lieberman on South Africa. Democracy in Hard Places | 00:49:02 | |
When you hear people talk in such disparaging tones, that everything is broken, that nothing is possible, you need to ask yourself, is that right? When you look around, the answer is no. There are these examples where things do go right, where people work together and create a neighborhood or a community for themselves in which they can be prosperous and build better lives. And that's really what the democratic project is all about. Evan Lieberman
Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid by Evan Lieberman "South Africa’s Resilient Democracy" by Evan Lieberman and Rorisang Lekalake in Journal of Democracy Learn more about Evan Lieberman at www.evanlieberman.org Follow Evan Lieberman on Twitter @evlieb Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
Nic Cheeseman and Gabrielle Lynch on the Moral Economy of Elections in Africa More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 14 Jun 2022 | Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places | 00:54:40 | |
Nehru is asked several times in those early years, ‘Aren’t you doing something which has never been done before? You are 17% literate. Half of your country is below the poverty line. Under such conditions no democracy has ever stabilize itself and perhaps has not emerged.’ And his argument repeatedly is that we shouldn't be constrained by the history of the West. Ashutosh Varshney
"Modi Consolidates Power: Electoral Vibrancy, Mounting Liberal Deficits" by Ashutosh Varshney in Journal of Democracy Learn more about Ashutosh Varshney at www.ashutoshvarshney.net Follow Ashutosh Varshney on Twitter @ProfVarshney Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 21 Jun 2022 | Rachel Beatty Riedl on Benin. Democracy in Hard Places. | 00:47:14 | |
So, at some level, a belief in democracy was necessary in Benin as in elsewhere. Support for it - Absolutely. But what's interesting in the Benin case is that you were lacking that level of political elite leadership that were committed democratic ideologues. Rachel Beatty Riedl
Learn more about the Einaudi Center for International Studies Listen to the Ufahamu Podcast Follow Rachel Beatty Riedl on Twitter @BeattyRiedl Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
Evan Lieberman on South Africa Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 28 Jun 2022 | Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) | 00:35:54 | |
Democracy is a complex concept. It has to do with elections. It has to do with legislatures. It has to do with civil society organizations and courts and political styles of politicians. There's a lot packed into the concept and it's multidimensional, because some of these components don't move together. Michael Coppedge Michael Coppedge is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy project, and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is a coeditor (along with Amanda Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Staffan Lindberg) of Why Democracies Develop and Decline.
Learn more about the Varieties of Democracy Project Follow the V-Dem Institute on Twitter @vdeminstitute Why Democracies Develop and Decline edited by Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Staffan I. Lindberg
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 05 Jul 2022 | Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places | 00:41:24 | |
The war is never going to really end. Because even in the most optimistic scenario where Ukraine regains its territory and it goes back to the 1991 borders, Russia is almost certainly going to present a permanent threat to Ukrainian sovereignty. I think objectively it will. But even if objectively it wasn’t, after such an invasion, you can imagine the political environment's going to treat it as one. Lucan Way Lucan Way is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He coauthored (along with Steven Levitsky) Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. He has a new book also coauthored with Steven Levitsky due this fall called Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism. He is the author of the chapter "Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Democratic Moments in the Former Soviet Union" in the book Democracy in Hard Places.
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Follow the Lucan Way on Twitter @LucanWay "The Rebirth of the Liberal World Order?" by Lucan Way in the Journal of Democracy Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 12 Jul 2022 | Scott Mainwaring on Argentina and a Final Reflection on Democracy in Hard Places | 00:44:13 | |
I think they're really important. But I don't think that they are a complete safeguard. Certainly, when you create democracies in hard places, you want to think very carefully about what institutions you want in place and how you strengthen them. But if you get illiberal governing parties in democracies in hard places, they can run over institutions. Scott Mainwaring Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he previously served as director for 13 years and is a current Advisory Board member. He is the coeditor (with Tarek Masoud) of Democracy in Hard Places.
Learn more about Scott Mainwaring "The Fates Of Third-Wave Democracies" by Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizarro in the Journal of Democracy Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places. Rachel Beatty Riedl on Benin. Democracy in Hard Places. More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 19 Jul 2022 | Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine | 00:35:38 | |
There are a lot of people quietly who are deeply frustrated with this war. Every rich person in Russia with one or two exceptions are frustrated with this war. I think many of the so-called liberal technocratic elites in the government are frustrated with this war. Lots of regional leaders are frustrated with this war. It's not just the vocal opposition. I think there's a quiet minority and maybe even majority that is exhausted with what Putin has done. Michael McFaul Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, is professor of political science at Stanford University, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018). Robert Person is associate professor of international relations at the U.S. Military Academy, director of its international affairs curriculum, and faculty affiliate at its Modern War Institute. Their essay "What Putin Fears Most" was published as an online exclusive from the Journal of Democracy in February and was included in the April 2022 issue.
Learn more about Michael McFaul "What Putin Fears Most" by Robert Person and Michael McFaul in the Journal of Democracy From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia by Michael McFaul Democracy Paradox Podcast Kathryn Stoner on How Putin’s War has Ruined Russia Marta Dyczok and Andriy Kulokov on the Media, Information Warriors, and the Future of Ukraine More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 26 Jul 2022 | Aynne Kokas on the Intersection Between Surveillance Capitalism and Chinese Sharp Power (or How Much Does the CCP Already Know About You?) | 00:45:08 | |
The US consumer system is uniquely exploitative. US consumers are exploited by American companies, by French companies, by German companies, by Chinese companies, because there aren't laws protecting consumer data privacy that extend widely across the US consumer ecosystem. The main difference with Chinese companies is that the Chinese government has established an entire framework that pressures Chinese firms to share their data with Chinese government regulators. Aynne Kokas Aynne Kokas is an associate professor of media studies and the C.K. Yen Chair at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Her most recent book is Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty. Her article "How Beijing Runs the Show in Hollywood" was published in this April's issue of Journal of Democracy.
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Mareike Ohlberg on the Global Influence of the Chinese Communist Party More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 02 Aug 2022 | Neil DeVotta on the Protests in Sri Lanka | 00:39:18 | |
As long as people are able to cast their ballot, irrespective of the illiberalism, irrespective of all these other shortcomings, democracy, at least from a voting standpoint, has the capacity to surprise. Neil Devotta Neil DeVotta is professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. His article "Sri Lanka's Agony" was published in this July's issue of Journal of Democracy.
Learn more about Neil DeVotta "Sri Lanka's Agony" by Neil DeVotta in the Journal of Democracy "Sri Lanka: The Return to Ethnocracy" by Neil DeVotta in the Journal of Democracy
Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places Mark Beissinger on Urban Civic Revolutions More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 09 Aug 2022 | Jessica Pisano on How Zelenskyy Changed Ukraine | 00:35:57 | |
There were lots of opportunities for a certain part of Ukrainian society to encounter Zelenskyy and to feel that they knew him. He was not an unknown quantity when he ran for president. So, I think that's important for us to keep in mind. I would say the so-called Western World is still discovering who he is, but his loyalty, his integrity, his ideas or his group's ideas about Ukrainian political nationhood have been in the works for a long time. Jessica Pisano Jessica Pisano is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of "How Zelensky Changed Ukraine" in the Journal of Democracy and Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond.
Learn more about Jessica Pisano "How Zelensky Changed Ukraine" by Jessica Pisano in the Journal of Democracy Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond by Jessica Pisano
Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places. More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 16 Aug 2022 | Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and its Democratic Decline | 00:50:00 | |
So, I came back from that trip and said to one of my good friends back in Budapest, ‘I think I've met the most dangerous person I've ever met personally.’ And she said, ‘Oh Viktor, he's nothing. He's like a kid. He's in his thirties.’ I mean, he was an aspiring politician at this point. His party was at the bottom of the polls. It didn't look like he had any future. And I said, ‘No, this guy has something. It's hard to define what it is, but we're going to be hearing from him.’ Kim Lane Scheppele Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Key Highlights
Key Links Learn more about Kim Lane Scheppele "How Viktor Orbán Wins" by Kim Lane Scheppele in the Journal of Democracy 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World edited by Kim Lane Scheppele and Arianna Vedaschi Democracy Paradox Podcast Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 23 Aug 2022 | Laura Gamboa on Opposition Strategies to Resist Democratic Erosion | 00:41:01 | |
There's always another set of elections. So, let's set up for elections. Let's figure out how to mobilize people. Let's figure out how to engage them and answer the question, ‘Why they elected this person? What did we miss? What do we need to build? Which kind of program.’ I think using the streets is great, but definitely you need training… A lot of training.This is a long-term effort. It's not about calling you on Facebook for a demonstration and that's it. Preorder Laura Gamboa's new book Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy here. Laura Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. She is the author of the forthcoming book Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy. Key Highlights
Learn more about Laura Gamboa "The Peace Process and Colombia’s Elections" by Laura Gambia in the Journal of Democracy Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy by Laura Gamboa
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and its Democratic Decline Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalistic Leaders More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 30 Aug 2022 | Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way on the Durable Authoritarianism of Revolutionary Regimes | 00:42:54 | |
People like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, they basically lashed out at the entire capitalist world and that lashing out created a counterrevolutionary armed struggle, which in turn contributed to their durability. So, it's that reckless behavior in creating enemies that ultimately led to their creating very strong authoritarian institutions. Lucan Way Preorder Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way's new book Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism here. Lucan Way is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and Co-Director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine. Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, professor of government, and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. They are also co-chairs of the editorial board at the Journal of Democracy. They are the authors of the forthcoming book Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism. Key Highlights
Key Links Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way "The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes" by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way in the Journal of Democracy Democracy Paradox Podcast Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places. Mark Beissinger on Urban Civic Revolutions More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 06 Sep 2022 | Simon Usherwood on Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and the Nested Games of British Politics | 00:46:51 | |
Politics requires complex and ongoing engagement by all of us. There are lots of elements that hang together. The Brexit process has really highlighted that whatever we decide to do that has knock-on consequences and those knock-on consequences have knock-on consequences of their own which might come back and affect our original decision. Everything is connected and we are never going to have something that's going to make everybody happy. Simon Usherwood Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Simon Usherwood is a Professor of Politics & International Studies at the Open University, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey's Centre for Britain & Europe and a National Teaching Fellow. Simon coauthored (along with John Pindar) The European Union: A Very Short Introduction. He recently coedited (along with Agnès Alexandre-Collier and Pauline Schnapper) The Nested Games of Brexit.
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| 19 Sep 2022 | Constitution Makers on Constitution Making: Hassen Ebrahim on South Africa's Constitution | 00:51:45 | |
Back then as a child, when it was normal that we couldn't ride on all buses and sit on all park benches and be allowed to go and watch a movie in a cinema together. Today, our children simply don't know that we had those experiences. But in it lies the wonders of the successes of what we have achieved. And if we managed to change that, then I think we have the ability to change from where we are currently into the future. Hassen Ebrahim Preorder the new book Constitution Makers on Constitution Making: New Cases here. Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Hassen Ebrahim was Executive Director of the Constitutional Assembly of South Africa, and is an advisor on constitution building. He participated in the construction of South Africa's constitution. He is the author of the chapter "Decisions, Deadlocks and Deadlines in Making South Africa’s Constitution" in the forthcoming book Constitution Makers on Constitution Making. Key Highlights
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| 20 Sep 2022 | Sarah Cook on China's Expanding Global Media Influence | 00:40:20 | |
In country after country - we've counted over 130 news outlets of 30 countries that were republishing content that was produced by Chinese state media outlets or the Chinese embassy. So, these state media outlets are actually formally under the control of the Communist Party's propaganda department. Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
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| 27 Sep 2022 | Lynn Vavreck on the 2020 Election and the Challenge to American Democracy | 00:36:53 | |
The people who win get to enact policy and they get to change the world we live in. But we're at this moment where the candidates who lose, if they think that they don't have to abide by election outcomes, that's very important and that affects the kind of world we live in. Lynn Vavreck Become a Patron! Order The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy by Chris Tausanovitch, John Sides, and Lynn Vavreck Lynn Vavreck is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA. She’s a contributor for The Upshot at The New York Times. She recently coauthored (with John Sides and Chris Tausanovitch) The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy. Key Highlights
Key Links Follow Lynn Vavreck on Twitter @vavreck Learn more about Lynn Vavreck Democracy Paradox Podcast Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast Democracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog. Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | Larry Diamond on Supporting Democracy in the World and at Home | 00:40:49 | |
The world can't wait for us to counter Russian and Chinese disinformation, support democratic struggles abroad, help to stabilize and improve democratic institutions, forge partnerships between our democratic organizations and actors and parties and theirs, and otherwise promote democracy around the world. The world can't wait for us to do that. Larry Diamond Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Larry Diamond is widely considered the leading scholar of democracy. He is a professor at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a co-founder of the Journal of Democracy with Marc Plattner in 1990. His influence on the thought and practice of democracy is incalculable. His recent article in Foreign Affairs is titled "All Democracy is Global." Key Highlights
Key Links Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Larry Diamond Follow Larry Diamond on Twitter @LarryDiamond Check out Larry Diamond's Greatest Hits at the Journal of Democracy "All Democracy is Global" by Larry Diamond Democracy Paradox Podcast Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast Democracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog. Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 11 Oct 2022 | Frank Dikötter on the History of China After Mao | 00:42:30 | |
This is a party absolutely determined to maintain a monopoly of power and absolutely determined to crush any attempt by any group to suggest that there ought to be anything like separation of powers. No labor unions. No civil society. No freedom of press. No judicial independence. The mere suggestion of it seems to be so offensive that people end up in jail and that’s a constant theme that runs throughout this entire period. Frank Dikötter Frank Dikötter is the author of three books about China under Mao called the People’s Trilogy. He is currently the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His latest book is China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower.
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| 18 Oct 2022 | Jeremi Suri on America's Unfinished Fight for Democracy | 00:42:22 | |
Our democracy is an evolving machine. The machine was built by a small group of people who were all men and looked the same. Over time the strength of American society is that it has grown and become more diverse and become very different. Our democracy has in an inefficient, episodic way been able to adjust and been able to at least account for some of that. But it hasn't done that in about a generation, and it's long time we do that. Jeremi Suri Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He cohosts the podcast This is Democracy with his son Zachary. His latest book is Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy.
This is Democracy a podcast from Jeremi and Zachary Suri Follow Jeremi Suri on Twitter @JeremiSuri
Lynn Vavreck on the 2020 Election and the Challenge to American Democracy Can America Preserve Democracy without Retreating from it? Robert C. Lieberman on the Four Threats More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 25 Oct 2022 | Allie Funk of Freedom House Assesses Global Internet Freedom | 00:40:43 | |
The Internet's a battle space. I think this year unfortunately we've seen that more than ever with Russia's brazen invasion of Ukraine about how the internet and digital platforms are used to pursue authoritarian ends or to promote democracy and freedom and help people stay safe during armed conflict. Allie Funk Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet by Adrian Shahbaz, Allie Funk, and Kian Vesteinsson Follow Allie Funk on Twitter @alfunk
Sarah Cook on China’s Expanding Global Media Influence Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 01 Nov 2022 | Jason Brownlee Believes We Underestimate Democratic Resilience | 00:41:23 | |
71% of Americans are concerned about democracy. And apparently that number, roughly 71%, holds for both parties. So, if listeners are concerned about democracy, they can expect that there's someone from the other party who's also concerned about democracy from a different perspective. Jason Brownlee Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Jason Brownlee is a professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Along with Kenny Miao, he is the author of "Why Democracies Survive" and "A Quiet Consensus" in the Journal of Democracy.
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| 08 Nov 2022 | Emilee Booth Chapman Has Ideas About Voting with Profound Implications | 00:46:43 | |
There is this idea on the one hand of this mass collective participation, but on the other hand that there's a lot of attention being given to the sort of dignity of each individual contribution. So, I think the experience of voting that is most valuable is when you have these two experiences juxtapose with each other Emilee Booth Chapman Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Emilee Booth Chapman Learn more about Emilee Booth Chapman
Jason Brownlee Believes We Underestimate Democratic Resilience Miles Rapoport on How We Can Achieve Universal Voting More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 15 Nov 2022 | Michael Ignatieff Warns Against the Politics of Enemies | 00:39:15 | |
Democracy is the stage in which we mount the battle for power and we fight out our competing visions of what would be good for a society. But at the same time, the most dangerous of all things we try to do in a democracy is argue about what is democratic and what is undemocratic. Michael Ignatieff Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
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| 22 Nov 2022 | Mohammed Ali Kadivar on Paths to Durable Democracy and Thoughts on the Protests in Iran | 01:00:12 | |
It's been exciting and it's been overwhelming. It's exciting to see people are rising, to see the amount of bravery on the streets, how these young women and men will stand up against the armored police with bare hands. It's been inspiring. Mohammad Ali Kadivar
Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy by Mohammed Ali Kadivar
Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
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| 29 Nov 2022 | Naunihal Singh on the Myth of the Coup Contagion | 00:41:33 | |
Sometimes I found people who I was talking to and their coup happened after an elected leader became less democratic. They could very convincingly tell me that their coup was in response to those actions. Then I'd find out that they started plotting the coup years in advance or entertaining it when the situation was very different. Naunihal Singh
"The Myth of the Coup Contagion" by Naunihal Singh in the Journal of Democracy Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups by Naunihal Singh Learn more about Naunihal Singh Democracy Paradox Podcast Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way on the Durable Authoritarianism of Revolutionary Regimes Michael Miller on the Unexpected Paths to Democratization More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast Democracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog. Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 06 Dec 2022 | Richard Wike Asked Citizens in 19 Countries Whether Social Media is Good for Democracy | 00:40:21 | |
When people think about social media, they think about the upsides of it. It speaks to what they want in democracy that they're not getting. They feel disconnected, voiceless, and not empowered. So, if there's ways that social media can play a role in empowering people and giving them a voice and holding accountable leaders that they don't think listen to them, those are upsides and that's some of the reasons why you get more positive evaluations of social media than we might think. Richard Wike
"Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier" by Richard Wike, Laura Silver, Janell Fetterolf, Christine Huang, Sarah Austin, Laura Clancy and Sneha Gubbala "Liberal Democracy’s Crisis of Confidence" by Richard Wike and Janell Fetterolf in the Journal of Democracy Learn more about Richard Wike at the Pew Research Center Democracy Paradox Podcast Allie Funk of Freedom House Assesses Global Internet Freedom More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast Democracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog. Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 13 Dec 2022 | Elizabeth Economy in a Wide Ranging Conversation About China | 00:42:25 | |
But if you think that China can change and that Xi Jinping is not inevitable and Xi Jinping two and three and four and five are not inevitable, then I think that leads you to a slightly different set of policy recommendations. A set that's probably more open to discussion to ensuring that we continue to quote ‘Engage with China.’ Elizabeth C. Economy
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| 20 Dec 2022 | Olga Onuch and Henry Hale Describe the Zelensky Effect | 00:43:43 | |
I just want to say that I don't think Zelensky has changed Ukraine. He amplified it. He mirrored what was already there in his time as an actor and comedian. He tried to show the realities and positions of ordinary Ukrainians as they saw them themselves and he then amplifies that and emphasizes that as a Ukrainian. Olga Onuch
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| 27 Dec 2022 | Lynette Ong Describes How China Outsources Repression | 00:36:28 | |
The state is able to take advantage of the social capital by deploying social actors and in exercising social capital, through the process of persuasion. They'll be putting on pressure on these families, but the pressures being put on them are social pressures. People would often cave into this social pressure. So, there is compliance, but it doesn't feel like state repression. Lynette Ong
Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China by Lynette Ong "China’s Massive Protests Are the End of a Once-Trusted Governance Model" by Lynette Ong in the Foreign Policy
Jessica Pisano on How Zelenskyy Changed Ukraine Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places. More Episodes from the Podcast
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| 03 Jan 2023 | Olivier Zunz on Alexis de Tocqueville | 00:33:25 | |
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is only partly a book on America. It's also a book of comparative thinking and it's a book of theoretical invention. So, Democracy in America is a theory of democracy. Part of it is about America and part of it is Tocqueville’s theoretical genius pushing through. Olivier Zunz
The Man who Knew Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
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| 10 Jan 2023 | Robert Kagan Looks to American History to Explain Foreign Policy Today | 00:48:42 | |
We think that because we’re children of the Enlightenment, the way the world is moving is gradually toward liberalism. I think the natural course of the world is away from liberalism and it has only been American power that has sustained this aberration in world history. Robert Kagan
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| 17 Jan 2023 | Michael Walzer on Liberal as an Adjective | 00:26:50 | |
It doesn't have a fixed character. It's a mindset that has to do with a respect for human rights and civil liberties, toleration of different religions, and an ability to live with ambiguity. So, I like the idea of liberal as a qualifier on other and more specific and coherent commitments. Michael Walzer
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| 24 Jan 2023 | Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism | 00:44:50 | |
By my reading of political philosophy every regime in a sense ultimately comes to an end because its contradictions ultimately undermine whatever virtues it might have had. I don't have a crystal ball, but I think it's a very real possibility that we're in a hinge of history where the next thing is in the offing and my hope is that that next thing is going to be a better and more humane way of organizing our society because the prospects of a worse and less humane way is also ever real and ever worrying. Patrick Deneen
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
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| 31 Jan 2023 | Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism's Discontents | 00:42:48 | |
I think that there is a core set of shared values that liberals have to embrace. You know, if they don't believe in a rule of law, they don't believe in the fundamental legitimacy of their constitutional order, that's a big problem. But as I said, probably the strongest argument in favor of liberalism is this pragmatic one. That this is something that allows pluralistic diverse societies to live in peace with one another. Francis Fukuyama
Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama Learn more about the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at https://kellogg.nd.edu/ | |||
| 07 Feb 2023 | Anna Grzymala-Busse on the Sacred Foundations of Modern Politics | 00:48:10 | |
While war creates the need for a state, it obliterates the capacity to deliver one. We're seeing that in Ukraine right now. That if you want to develop a state, you need peace, not war. War may create the need for a state, but peace is what allows you to build one. I think that that might be a lesson worth emphasizing, especially these days. Anna Grzymala-Busse
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| 14 Feb 2023 | Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism | 00:50:14 | |
I think democracy and capitalism are individually in crisis in that they're not working very well and that the combination of the two in one political and economic system, which we have come to think of as the Western Way, is in crisis not only because the two component parts are in crisis, but because they're in crisis interactively. Martin Wolf
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| 21 Feb 2023 | Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile | 00:55:00 | |
I think voters right now, remember the circus of the convention over the substance of what it did. I think there is a bit of an amnesia over the mandate for change that existed in 2019 and 2020 that the Constitution delivered on, that voters had moved away from that mandate to change by the time the Constitution went for approval. Jennifer Piscopo
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| 28 Feb 2023 | Wendy Hunter on Lula, Bolsonaro, January 8th and Democracy in Brazil | 00:46:46 | |
I do want to underscore this should not be read as a victory of the left. It's a victory of Lula and a narrow victory. And it's Lula the person. It's not so much Lula from the PT as the party that won. Wendy Hunter
"Lula's Second Act" in the Journal of Democracy by Wendy Hunter and Timothy J. Power "Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Illiberal Backlash" in the Journal of Democracy by Wendy Hunter and Timothy J. Power "The Normalization of an Anomaly: The Workers' Party in Brazil" in World Politics by Wendy Hunter
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| 07 Mar 2023 | Srdja Popovic on Dilemma Actions | 00:52:13 | |
It is one Putin when you see him on a calendar. It's yet another Putin when he needs to arrest a snowman. Srdja Popovic
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| 14 Mar 2023 | Staffan Lindberg with a Report on Democracy in the World | 00:43:49 | |
Democracy dies with the lies. Even that simplest form of democracy, which is that we vote on a politician or we don't and we vote on another politician depends on the truth. Because if you can lie about what you did in office or lie about what you didn't do, that sort of vertical accountability breaks down. It becomes meaningless. Staffan Lindberg
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| 21 Mar 2023 | Josh Chin on China's Surveillance State | 00:41:52 | |
It's hard to believe what was happening in Xinjiang and most Chinese people didn't believe, but now they do. A lot of them do.
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| 28 Mar 2023 | Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda | 00:43:21 | |
One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda.
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| 04 Apr 2023 | Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top | 00:53:58 | |
Democracy is a much more complicated thing than we often give it credit for and certainly speaking dichotomously about democracy being in crisis or not is an oversimplification. Larry Bartels
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Larry Bartels
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| 11 Apr 2023 | Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq | 00:44:44 | |
The Iraqis suffered so heavily and not just because of the 2003 war. The first war in 1991 inflicted terrible damage on Iraq and then the next 10 years of sanctions immiserated the populace and inflicted an especially punishing blow on Iraqi women and children. Steven Simon
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| 18 Apr 2023 | James Goldgeier on NATO, its Enlargement, and its Future | 00:49:56 | |
Who would be a better ally than Ukrainians? These are people who are fighting so bravely and have shown so much resilience. That's what we should want in an ally. James Goldgeier
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| 25 Apr 2023 | Jamie Susskind Explains How to Use Republican Ideals to Govern Technology | 00:49:26 | |
The problem in both cases is not Zuckerberg or Musk, but the idea of a Zuckerberg or Musk. The idea that, simply by virtue of owning and controlling a particular technology, someone wields arbitrary or unaccountable power which can touch every aspect of our liberty and our democracy. Jamie Susskind
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| 02 May 2023 | Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy | 00:51:41 | |
The thing that really astonishes me is that there's never any agency given to Iraqis, both during the war and the occupation, but also 20 years later. It always goes back to what the Americans did. There's a defeatism about Iraq's ability to do anything on its own and I think that's at the heart of why people can't see anything democratic in the country.
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| 09 May 2023 | Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc | 00:40:14 | |
We are at a moment of very, very high risk and I'm not sure that people really know that or understand it, or if they do, if they care. Anne Applebaum
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| 16 May 2023 | Serhii Plokhy on the Russo-Ukrainian War | 00:44:35 | |
The fact that Ukraine can be a democracy.... presents a threat to the authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk of the sort that NATO would never actually present. Serhii Plokhy
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| 23 May 2023 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology and the Struggle for Shared Prosperity | 00:50:00 | |
If you have this model of AI, which is geniuses design machines and those machines or algorithms are going to scoop up all the data and they're going to make better decisions for you. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Daron Acemoglu
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| 30 May 2023 | Cole Bunzel on Wahhābism | 00:47:41 | |
The Jihadis today root themselves theologically and ideologically in a particular movement that is exclusivist, that is militant, that is activist, and that is the movement known as Wahhābism. Cole Bunzel
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| 06 Jun 2023 | Isabel Kershner on Israel and its Divisions | 00:52:06 | |
It's very hard to understand what's happening today without looking at the roots of all these divisions and at the interests of the different communities and their long-held resentments against the establishment of the country. Isabel Kershner
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| 13 Jun 2023 | Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration | 00:49:00 | |
If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied with the system that we have now. Peter Turchin
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| 20 Jun 2023 | Dan Slater on Thailand's Revolutionary Election | 00:51:42 | |
Democracy is Eastern as well as Western. Dan Slater
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| 27 Jun 2023 | Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile | 00:49:24 | |
I think that the most important reform is openness. Once the country is open, really open to the rest of the world, the rest follows. Sebastian Edwards
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| 04 Jul 2023 | Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty | 00:51:57 | |
My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sovereignty that we might otherwise presume to be long gone remnants of a more superstitious or religious age. Natasha Wheatley
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| 11 Jul 2023 | Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem | 00:54:54 | |
The most dangerous states in the international system aren't necessarily revisionist powers that think that their trajectory points continually upward. It's those countries that have been growing, rising for a long time, and then fear that they are peaking and are about to decline. Those are the countries that are inclined to take the biggest risks to try to improve their position in the the here and now before things get worse for them in the future. Hal Brands
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| 18 Jul 2023 | Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really? | 00:58:17 | |
Elections are not free or fair, but they matter greatly because this is how Erdoğan comes to power and stays in power and in this case he was almost about to lose that power. Sebnem Gumuscu
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| 25 Jul 2023 | Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators | 00:52:21 | |
Spin dictators have fewer political prisoners, fewer political killings. This is good. This is really good. On the other hand, we want to tell everybody that they are still dictators. Sergei Guriev
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| 01 Aug 2023 | Is McKinsey and Company a Threat to Democracy? Michael Forsythe Shares His Reporting | 00:54:05 | |
It's too simplistic to call it an evil company. There are certainly a lot of very good people that work there. It's just the system itself and the corporation itself and the system that it's embedded in is what causes the problems. Michael Forsythe
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| 08 Aug 2023 | Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy | 00:43:19 | |
I think we have a more complex notion of what democracy is.
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| 15 Aug 2023 | Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution | 00:50:11 | |
It would be a miracle if the original understanding of the Constitution just landed time and time again with the views in 2023 of the right-wing of the Republican Party. That would be too amazing a coincidence. That's more than troublesome. Cass Sunstein
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| 22 Aug 2023 | Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes | 00:40:28 | |
India should be understood as a test case of democracy outside the Western world. Rahul Verma
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| 29 Aug 2023 | Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East | 00:52:26 | |
Great developments by nature are not linear. Things just don't always continue as they have been. That's why this idea that the Arab Spring came, it went, it happened, it didn't work, therefore the Middle East will always remain an autocracy - that's linear thinking. Great events are great precisely because they're not linear. Robert Kaplan
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| 05 Sep 2023 | Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio | 00:47:38 | |
People still think of Chinese history as this two-line struggle because that's the story the Chinese tell. But everything from Mao Zedong's relationship to Liu Shaoqi to anything that happened during the 1980s, it was not a problem of competing policy platforms. It was a problem of getting the politics of your relationship with the top leader right when it was hard to guess what they were thinking and they were changing their mind and they were suspicious of you. Joseph Torigian
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| 12 Sep 2023 | Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea | 00:55:45 | |
North Korea is stable up until the day it's not... The day that it collapses, there'll be a lot of people out there who will say this was inevitable. Victor Cha
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| 19 Sep 2023 | Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority | 00:47:58 | |
I think one of the greatest barriers to reform is thinking that reform is impossible. Daniel Ziblatt
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| 26 Sep 2023 | Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy | 01:02:35 | |
It would be a lovely thing if before I die, I get to see a younger generation reclaim democracy and rebuild it in a new, more expansive way. Heather Cox Richardson
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| 03 Oct 2023 | Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology | 00:50:50 | |
I really do think that what we've witnessed over the last decades is the emergence of a new ideology that is meaningfully distinct... I think it really is meaningfully distinct from other forms of what is meant to be left wing in the past from other ideological traditions. Yascha Mounk Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
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| 10 Oct 2023 | Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality | 00:47:12 | |
Writing a book like that makes you really think brutally about the past. It makes you really think about the current time and also how the future would look at you. Branko Milanovic Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.
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| 17 Oct 2023 | Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East | 00:51:05 | |
Autocracy as we understand it today is a modern creation. I think there we see very few successful examples of modern autocracies that are able to sustain themselves. Shadi Hamid
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| 24 Oct 2023 | Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President | 00:57:34 | |
You could take that populism and turn it negative, which often happens... But populism could also be a wonderful thing where you're actually appealing to what the voters want instead of what the powerful want. Cenk Uygur
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| 31 Oct 2023 | Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them | 00:48:55 | |
For people like me or just your ordinary Joes who speak of democracy, I thought it meant freedom. I thought it meant a free press. I thought it meant that people would not die on the streets. Patricia Evangelista
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| 07 Nov 2023 | Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin | 00:52:13 | |
Leadership is not a formula. It's not something that happens in a vacuum. It's not just something that you can declare about yourself. Moshik Temkin
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| 14 Nov 2023 | Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture | 01:00:11 | |
It's impossible not to admire somebody who is willing to stand up for their country, for freedom and democracy, for the idea that Russians should be able to chart their own future and have a say in what their government looks like. David Herszenhorn
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| 21 Nov 2023 | Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding | 00:45:55 | |
This was an election that was meant to cement authoritarian rule and it became a democratic breakthrough. Rachel Schwartz
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| 28 Nov 2023 | How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism | 00:47:28 | |
I think populism is rather a specific form of discontent. Discontent is the umbrella term. It's this vague sense that the way things are being done is not working. That democracy is not effective. That it's not serving my interests. Matthew Rhodes-Purdy
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| 05 Dec 2023 | Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in Early Representative Governments | 00:47:44 | |
If we're thinking about democracy as something broader that is producing equality, justice or these kind of things, often those policies that we might describe as democratic policies can emerge from processes that are undemocratic. I think that's uncomfortable for us to think about. Katlyn Carter
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| 12 Dec 2023 | Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China? Bethany Allen Believes We Can | 00:53:24 | |
In the past 26 years, to this day, there has not been one major Hollywood production that has gone against a major Chinese Communist Party red line. Not one. Twenty-six years of silence. Bethany Allen
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| 19 Dec 2023 | Is Islamism Democratic? Sebnem Gumuscu on Islamist Parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey | 00:44:24 | |
If these Islamist organizations want to stay in these contexts and keep playing the democratic game, they need to commit to the democratic game in the longer run. Sebnem Gumuscu
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| 26 Dec 2023 | Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case | 00:52:24 | |
What we really need to do is recommit to the idea that this is difficult, it is valuable, and in order to keep this valuable, difficult thing going, we need to basically pay the cost of educating ourselves, educating the next generation, the background knowledge and skills that citizens need if they are to continue to govern themselves... Josiah Ober
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