Voter Suppression Goes Global, with Elizabeth Iams Wellman
This is a conversation about the politics of voting from abroad: in particular, about how governments manipulate emigrants’ access to the ballot in order to protect their own hold on power. For the m...
4 Apr 20211h 9min
Surviving the Syrian Civil War, with Justin Schon
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we talk about how civilians seek to survive civil war. Our guest is Dr. Justin Schon, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Virginia’s Democratic Statecraft ...
15 Mar 202155min
Redistribution as Fairness, with Charlotte Cavaillé
We are talking today about the politics of redistribution in an age of rising inequality. Our guest is Dr. Charlotte Cavaillé, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s ...
22 Feb 20211h 21min
Strategic Indifference as Refugee Policy in the Global South, with Kelsey Norman
In this episode, we ask: when a state doesn’t enforce the rules, is it because they don’t have the capacity to do so, or because they’ve chosen not to? Put differently, when is indifference a delibera...
8 Feb 202155min
The Gravitational Pull of Europe's Far Right, with Tarik Abou-Chadi
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tarik Abou-Chadi, an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Zürich, about how far-right parties have reshaped politics in advanced democracies....
18 Jan 20211h 11min
How Strong Legislatures Emerge, with Ken Opalo
In this episode, we talk about how strong legislatures emerge. When we think about what makes a political system a democracy, we usually think of one key ingredient as being an elected legislature tha...
4 Jan 202157min
Public Education as an Autocratic Project, with Agustina Paglayan
In this conversation, we talk with Dr. Agustina Paglayan, an assistant professor of political science at UC San Diego, about her project “The Dark Side of Education,” an examination of the spread of m...
14 Des 20201h 3min
Middle-Class Guardians of Autocracy, with Bryn Rosenfeld
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Bryn Rosenfeld, an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, about her new book, The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand f...
23 Nov 202051min
