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A podcast showcasing cutting-edge research in comparative politics.
Today on the podcast, why are more unequal neighborhoods sometimes better at promoting the collective good? A world of high inequality is, i...
Political analysts are thinking a lot these days about the rule of law: where it comes from, what sustains it, how it can break down. Those...
When we think of weak democracies around the world, we often think of their inability to maintain a monopoly on violence because of challeng...
In democracies all around the world, criminal organizations are involved in electoral politics. Notable examples include the Sicilian mafia...
Today on Scope Conditions: college dorms shed light on where group culture comes from and how it molds us. At Harry Potter’s alma mater , ea...
Most governments around the world – whether democracies or autocracies – face at least some pressure to respond to citizen concerns on some...
Today on Scope Conditions, what’s the secret to successful peacekeeping? We often think of civil conflict as being driven by organized, arme...
Today on Scope Conditions: when is racial status a unifying force in politics? Shared experiences of prejudice and discrimination can someti...
Today on Scope Conditions, can we teach voters how to tell truth from lies? Around the world, governments and political parties wield misinf...
Today on Scope Conditions: why the judge’s gavel is sometimes mightier than the sword. Political trials – or show trials – are a well-known...
Today on Scope Conditions: what drives discrimination against immigrants – and what can be done about it? When social scientists have sought...
A little over two years ago, mass protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, focused public at...
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about rising partisan animosity and what can be done about it. When we think about partisan polariz...
Can autocrats fight online dissent with offline repression? In the world’s most authoritarian regimes, on-the-ground forms of protest or exp...
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about the origins of supranational power. The European Union has no army. It levies no taxes. Cover...
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we ask: what happens when your favorite candidate isn’t even running? We often think about the quality...
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re speaking with Dr. Dana El Kurd , an assistant professor of political science at the University of Richmond,...
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 w...
The last two decades have seen an explosion of field experimentation in political science and economics. Field experiments are often seen as...
Today on Scope Conditions: how the paper-pushers of Empires reshaped colonialism in Southeast Asia. Our guest is Dr. Diana Kim, an Assistant...
Today we are talking about the problem of maintaining social order. In particular, what happens when citizens see the police as ineffective...
By their very nature, autocracies are political systems in which power is highly concentrated; dictators can do pretty much as they please....
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...
This is a conversation about the politics of voting from abroad: in particular, about how governments manipulate emigrants’ access to the ba...
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we talk about how civilians seek to survive civil war. Our guest is Dr. Justin Schon , a postdoctoral s...
We are talking today about the politics of redistribution in an age of rising inequality. Our guest is Dr. Charlotte Cavaillé , an Assistant...
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 cho...
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tarik Abou-Chadi , an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Zürich, about how far-...
In this episode, we talk about how strong legislatures emerge. When we think about what makes a political system a democracy, we usually thi...
In this conversation, we talk with Dr. Agustina Paglayan , an assistant professor of political science at UC San Diego, about her project “T...
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Bryn Rosenfeld , an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, about her new book, The Autoc...
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nikhar Gaikwad, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, about his book project...
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Aram Hur , an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, about her book proje...
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Elizabeth Nugent , an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about her new book, Aft...
In this episode, we talk about improving relations between social groups. For decades, social scientists and policymakers have been examinin...
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