Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
The way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are. Steph...
7 Dec 202144min
Joshua Yaffa on Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
‘What would you prefer? Would you prefer that this boy, Vasya, die because he couldn't get dialysis? Would you prefer that this girl, Katya, die from her shrapnel wounds that she suffered during the w...
30 Nov 202148min
Zoltan Barany on the Ineffectiveness of the Gulf Militaries
The last time, and luckily this hasn't really happened since 1990, there was minimal resistance from the Kuwaiti and the Saudi forces. So, this obviously is 30 years ago, but there is little reason to...
23 Nov 202151min
Amory Gethin on Political Cleavages, Inequality, and Party Systems in 50 Democracies
Indeed, the moderation of left-wing party’s economic policy proposals in the eighties and in the nineties and the decision to promote an unregulated capitalism with no kind of proper compensation and ...
16 Nov 202152min
Daniel Brinks on the Politics of Institutional Weakness
We don't think about institutions until they fail and we think of institutions as being really strong when maybe they've never been challenged. They've never really tried to do anything. Daniel Brinks...
9 Nov 202152min
Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements
What we are doing in this volume is blurring the boundaries between this older conception of top-down mobilized movements and this newer conception of bottom-up organic, spontaneous civil society prop...
2 Nov 202150min
Susan Rose-Ackerman on the Role of the Executive in Four Different Democracies
Many of these things that you and I are talking about are simply initiatives put forward by the chief executive or maybe by a cabinet minister. Something they want to do and rather than something that...
26 Okt 202143min
Tom Ginsburg Shares his Thoughts on Democracy and International Law
At the end of the day, I am optimistic despite all the evidence. First of all, I think there are a lot of resources that democracies can use. A lot of areas of law, where as long as we recognize what ...
19 Okt 202151min
