Trial and Terror, with Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh

Scope Conditions Podcast by Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou

Nov 28, 202276:17Government & Organizations

Today on Scope Conditions: why the judge’s gavel is sometimes mightier than the sword. Political trials – or show trials – are a well-known mode of repression in authoritarian settings. We often think of a show trial as...

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