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The Democracy Paradox explores the diverse range of perspectives and insights about democracy through an interview format. Every week new scholars are invited to share their breakthrough res...
If democracy wants to regain the upper hand, it has to not only do a better job than the other guys, but in fact, a good job. Sheri Berman T...
Sharp power seeks to exploit the openness of free societies because their institutions are open. Christopher Walker Christopher Walker, a le...
I don't think populism is necessarily a challenge to democracy. I think it's part and parcel of it. Hugo Drochon Hugo Drochon join...
We are badly mismeasuring whether and how much people care about democracy. Milan Svolik In this episode of the Democracy Paradox , host Jus...
The paradox of dictatorship is that dictatorships do well when they do not have a genuine dictator. Minxin Pei In this episode of Democracy...
Traditional programmatic parties serve as a critical guardrail for democracy. Erica Frantz In this episode, Justin Kempf speaks with Erica F...
By dismantling certain capacities today, you're making the democratic choices of tomorrow harder. Javier Pérez Sandoval In this episode...
The group of people who have an interest in defending liberal democracy might be broader than many academics, and maybe even liberals, would...
You can take a cognitive bias so far down the road that you can live in an objectively very clear dictatorship and sit there and say, '...
The heart of ungoverning is going after expertise - eradicating expertise - and replacing it with the power of the great ruler. Russ Muirhea...
Decreasing incumbent capacity and affective polarization are making incumbency salient, but also more of a curse than a blessing. Luis Schiu...
The biggest disappointment is that democracies do not reduce social and economic inequality. Adam Przeworski In this episode, host Justin Ke...
For democratic revolutions to survive counterrevolution, they have to make certain choices that can undermine the quality of their democracy...
The regime question at its core is about how we should govern ourselves... This is an enduring question that is essential to democratic poli...
After an introductory conversation with Kellogg Faculty Fellow Marc Jacob , Democracy Paradox host Justin Kempf explores the dynamics of glo...
Javier Corrales , professor of political science at Amherst College, discusses his recent research on democratic backsliding and intentional...
In this episode, Justin interviews Susan Stokes, the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the...
We've often compared democratic national security and autocratic security making in terms of autocratic elites and democratic voters. M...
I think we've seen democracies can be unstable. Autocracies are even more unstable. David Moss Made in partnership with the Ash Center...
March 24th, 1976 is the coup and it unleashes wild celebrations in establishment Argentina and almost no opposition.... Of course, this unle...
There's a fog of democratic breakdown where really you cannot see the actual impact of your choices or your actions until after the fac...
What strikes me about that period is that democracy was not inevitable. Federica Carugati Made in partnership with the Ash Center for Democr...
I think that if you got rid of the Electoral College, in the short run, there would be losers. But it hasn't always been the same group...
You actually have to fight in every generation, if you want to preserve liberalism. It's not just going to preserve itself. It's n...
People in Congress are leaders in their communities and people in some parts of this country are, in my opinion, being led astray. Rep. Miki...
What does it mean to empower women politically in a context in which the dominant party is engaged in democratic backsliding or other forms...
We have to reconstruct the foundations of our democracy, building on the past, not repudiating everything we're building on it. Bruce A...
We thought we were strengthening the militaries in the Cold War. In fact, the political effects of those strengthened militaries ended up le...
We have to care more about truth than tribe. We have to care more about each other than about profit. Barbara McQuade This episode was made...
Whoever you vote for, Biden or Trump at this point, you are voting for a radically different vision of American foreign policy. Alexander Wa...
All this stuff about half of America just won't listen to this. You're just not trying. You're just not trying. I fear in Ame...
Without an elected government, without a government that truly represents... a lot of things are imperiled - rights, democracy, freedom, cer...
As a writer I had the space to try to humanize him without sanitizing him. That was my mission: to try to see the world from behind his eyes...
Written into the DNA of American immigration policy, which we tend to regard as a kind of domestic policy - and which in many ways it is - h...
I think a powerful surveillance apparatus will continue to be a major obstacle to the development of democratic forces, but it will not be t...
As democracy promoters, we also need to pay a lot of attention to the material needs of people... When these material needs are not satisfie...
Poland will be showing us the endless ingenuity of constitutional thinkers who are genuinely committed to democracy in its many forms. Tomás...
I think his heart is in the right place. I've talked to him about these things. He's very sensitive to the judgment of history. He...
When politics has to solve the problems that it has caused, how can politics do that? Marcela Rios Tobar This episode was made in partnershi...
Populist leaders want polarization. They start polarization. They confront. Kurt Weyland Proudly sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for Inte...
That's the point here. It's not there yet. But if electorally the BJP keeps winning, this is a prospect that must be faced. Ashuto...
What we really need to do is recommit to the idea that this is difficult, it is valuable, and in order to keep this valuable, difficult thin...
If these Islamist organizations want to stay in these contexts and keep playing the democratic game, they need to commit to the democratic g...
In the past 26 years, to this day, there has not been one major Hollywood production that has gone against a major Chinese Communist Party r...
If we're thinking about democracy as something broader that is producing equality, justice or these kind of things, often those policie...
I think populism is rather a specific form of discontent. Discontent is the umbrella term. It's this vague sense that the way things ar...
This was an election that was meant to cement authoritarian rule and it became a democratic breakthrough. Rachel Schwartz Access Bonus Episo...
It's impossible not to admire somebody who is willing to stand up for their country, for freedom and democracy, for the idea that Russi...
Leadership is not a formula. It's not something that happens in a vacuum. It's not just something that you can declare about yours...
For people like me or just your ordinary Joes who speak of democracy, I thought it meant freedom. I thought it meant a free press. I thought...