Shari Davis Elevates Participatory Budgeting
Participatory budgeting is actually about connecting folks with the skills and resources to navigate and shape government. And so, for me, that is the most optimistic and the most important outcome of...
13 Apr 202152min
Chris Bickerton Defines Technopopulism
That tension between the politics of the whole and the politics of the part, that tension between the politics of generality and the politics of particularity, is really at the heart of party democrac...
6 Apr 202143min
Ross Benes on Nebraska and Rural Conservatism
The legislature is one of several examples of our history of being independent which is why I think it was such an important story to tell of Nebraska becoming like baptized into Republican orthodoxy....
30 Mar 202145min
Chad Alan Goldberg on the Wisconsin Idea and the Role of the Public University in a Democracy
They had an obligation to take the knowledge that they were developing, to take their expertise and put it in the service of the community as a whole and the service of its elected leaders. Chad Alan ...
23 Mar 202153min
Elizabeth Nugent on Polarization, Democratization and the Arab Spring
The focus on the individual people involved in this moment and their preexisting relationships for me is a new way of thinking about democratic transitions. Because I think we see how much these perso...
16 Mar 202151min
Ryan Salzman is an Evangelist for Placemaking
Like so many things we're coming to grips with now in the 21st century, we're realizing that the 20th century was the anomaly. We feel like what was happening in the first 20 years of the 21st century...
9 Mar 202151min
Kajri Jain Believes Democracy Unfolds through the Aesthetic
"We don’t pay enough attention to the sensory aspects of what it means to be equal. That’s what it fundamentally is. That’s the presupposition of democracy. Not the goal. The presupposition is that we...
2 Mar 202157min
Nic Cheeseman and Gabrielle Lynch on the Moral Economy of Elections in Africa
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. It’s common for Westerners to lecture Africans about democracy. Most Africans will admit their different political systems have many proble...
23 Feb 202145min
