Politics and Polls: Blue state federalism
Democracy Works summer break 2019 continues with an episode from Politics and Polls, a podcast produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. The show’s hosts ...
15 Jul 201937min
The Pledge: Are you scared of the cafeteria lady?
Our summer break continues this week with an episode of The Pledge, a podcast about people who are taking an active role in improving democracy in the U.S. The show’s first season features a group of ...
15 Jul 201917min
How Democracies Die author Daniel Ziblatt on the “grinding work” of democracy [rebroadcast]
Our summer break continues this week with a rebroadcast of one of our very first episodes, a conversation with How Democracies Die author Daniel Ziblatt. He spoke at Penn State in March 2018. Both the...
8 Jul 201932min
A democracy summer reading list [rebroadcast]
Democracy Works is taking a few weeks off for the summer. While we do, we are going to share some older episodes you might have missed, along with a few from other podcasts we think you’ll enjoy. Firs...
1 Jul 201954min
Answering your questions about democracy
Is the United States really a democracy? What will the EU look like in 50 years? What should 2020 candidates be doing to demonstrate civility? Those are just a few of the questions we received from De...
24 Jun 201946min
Congressional oversight and making America pragmatic again
We tend to think about congressional oversight in very academic terms — checks and balances, the Framers, etc. But what does it actually look like on the ground in Congress? To find out, we’re talking...
17 Jun 201946min
Will AI destroy democracy?
Jay Yonamine Some political scientists and democracy scholars think that it might. The thinking goes something like this: inequality will rise as jobs continue to be automated, which will cause distru...
10 Jun 201939min
The 2019 version of Democracy in America
Lindsay Lloyd. Photo by Grant Miller If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, what would he have to say about the condition of our democracy? We hear a lot in the news and on Twitter about how ...
3 Jun 201935min
