Diagnosing Democracy's Representation Gap, with Sergio Montero
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we ask: what happens when your favorite candidate isn’t even running? We often think about the quality of democratic representation in terms of the outcomes that c...
21 Mars 20221h 5min
How Palestine Polarized, with Dana El Kurd
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re speaking with Dr. Dana El Kurd, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Richmond, about her recent book, Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies o...
5 Feb 20221h 14min
Randomizing Together (Part 2), with Tara Slough and Graeme Blair
Today’s episode is Part 2 of our conversation about metaketas with Dr. Tara Slough, an Assistant Professor of Politics at NYU, who co-led with Daniel Rubenson a metaketa on the governance of natural r...
19 Dec 202150min
Randomizing Together (Part 1), with Tara Slough and Graeme Blair
The last two decades have seen an explosion of field experimentation in political science and economics. Field experiments are often seen as the gold standard for policy evaluation. If you want to kno...
9 Dec 20211h 5min
Why Empires Declared a War on Drugs, with Diana Kim
Today on Scope Conditions: how the paper-pushers of Empires reshaped colonialism in Southeast Asia. Our guest is Dr. Diana Kim, an Assistant Professor at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreig...
11 Nov 20211h 13min
Can Boosting State Capacity Curb Social Disorder? with Anna Wilke
Today we are talking about the problem of maintaining social order. In particular, what happens when citizens see the police as ineffective and, in turn, decide to take the law into their own hands? A...
12 Okt 20211h 19min
The Autocrat's Gambit, with Anne Meng
By their very nature, autocracies are political systems in which power is highly concentrated; dictators can do pretty much as they please. So dictatorships might seem an unusual place to go looking f...
29 Maj 20211h 14min
Manipulating Personnel for Power, with Mai Hassan
Our guest today is Dr. Mai Hassan, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Mai is the author of a recent book, Regime Threats and State Solutions, about how leaders ...
3 Maj 20211h 13min
