Alliances with Prof Paul Poast | S01E14 | Political Reality
1. 📄 Downs et al. (2009), “Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?”https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/is-the-good-news-about-complia...
8 Apr 54min
PREVIEW: What does it take to change a mind | Political Reality | S01E13
1. 🚪 Broockman and Kalla, “Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing” (the excellent paper that’s a great model for field experiments on this topic)https://www.scien...
2 Apr 10min
The SAVE act, Voter ID laws, and turnout in America | Political Reality | S01E12
https://politicalrealitypodcast.com Show Notes for Voter ID Ep. 📄 Riker and Ordeshook, “A Theory of the Calculus of Voting” (paper where the key equation came from):https://www.jstor.org/stable/195...
25 Mar 36min
PREVIEW: Gerrymandering: Mutually Artificial Democracy | Political Reality | S01E11
Show Notes Coming Soon
18 Mar 10min
Cutting through the fog of war in Iran | Political Reality | S01E10
📰 Reporting on extent to which 2025 US strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglxwp5x03o ⚛️ Details about Iran’s uranium enriched to 60%: https://www....
12 Mar 52min
PREVIEW: Which came first? The Media or The Message | Media Divides | S01E09
Full info on https://www.patreon.com/posts/152180612
4 Mar 9min
How Parties Learn... if at all with Prof. Seth Masket | Political Reality | S01E08
More about Seth & his work: https://www.sethmasket.com Seth’s book Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020 Preview of Seth’s new book (coming summer 2026): The Elephants in the Room: H...
26 Feb 41min
PREVIEW: Can we vote our way out of this? | Voting Systems | S01E07 | Political Reality
Full Episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-we-vote-our-151099132 https://patreon.com/politicalreality Further Reading & Resources on Voting Theory 📘 1. Kenneth Arrow's amazing 1951 book, So...
18 Feb 9min
