The Bombs America Left Behind, with Erin Lin
Today on Scope Conditions: when the bombs don’t go off, the war isn't over. We tend to think of peace as beginning when the bombs stop falli...
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Listen to Scope Conditions Podcast, a Government & Organizations podcast by Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou. Stream 37 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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When Unequal Places Invest, with Alice Xu
Today on the podcast, why are more unequal neighborhoods sometimes better at promoting the collective good? A world of high inequality is, i...
Rules of Law, with Egor Lazarev
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...
Violence as Campaign Strategy, with Niloufer Siddiqui
When we think of weak democracies around the world, we often think of their inability to maintain a monopoly on violence because of challeng...
How Criminal Governance Undermines Elections, with Jessie Trudeau
In democracies all around the world, criminal organizations are involved in electoral politics. Notable examples include the Sicilian mafia...
What College Dorms can teach us about Culture, with Joan Ricart-Huguet
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...
Statecraft as Stagecraft, with Iza (Yue) Ding
Most governments around the world – whether democracies or autocracies – face at least some pressure to respond to citizen concerns on some...
How the UN Keeps Peace Among Neighbors, with William G. Nomikos
Today on Scope Conditions, what’s the secret to successful peacekeeping? We often think of civil conflict as being driven by organized, arme...
Race-Based Coalitions in Three Chinatowns, with Jae Yeon Kim
Today on Scope Conditions: when is racial status a unifying force in politics? Shared experiences of prejudice and discrimination can someti...
Can We Immunize Against Misinformation? with Sumitra Badrinathan
Today on Scope Conditions, can we teach voters how to tell truth from lies? Around the world, governments and political parties wield misinf...
Trial and Terror, with Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh
Today on Scope Conditions: why the judge’s gavel is sometimes mightier than the sword. Political trials – or show trials – are a well-known...
Overcoming the Hijab Penalty, with Donghyun Danny Choi
Today on Scope Conditions: what drives discrimination against immigrants – and what can be done about it? When social scientists have sought...
“Defunding the Police” as Transitional Justice, with Genevieve Bates
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...
Partisan Polarization in Israel, with Chagai Weiss
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about rising partisan animosity and what can be done about it. When we think about partisan polariz...
Online Dissent, Offline Repression, with Alexandra Siegel
Can autocrats fight online dissent with offline repression? In the world’s most authoritarian regimes, on-the-ground forms of protest or exp...
Europe's Hidden Legal Architects, with Tommaso Pavone
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about the origins of supranational power. The European Union has no army. It levies no taxes. Cover...
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...
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,...
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 w...
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...