Democracy Paradox
221 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Is it possible for a democracy to govern undemocratically? Can the people elect an undemocratic leader? Is it possible for democracy to bring about authoritarianism? And if so, what does this say about democracy? My name is Justin Kempf. Every week I talk to the brightest minds on subjects like international relations, political theory, and history to explore democracy from every conceivable angle. Topics like civil resistance, authoritarian successor parties, and the autocratic middle class challenge our ideas about democracy. Join me as we unravel new topics every week.
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Kathryn Stoner on How Putin's War has Ruined Russia
May 24, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBBoeing is pulling out, DuPont, Erickson, Analog Devices, Bombardier. Eventually all of these things are going to cause supply and production chain issues and unemployment in Russia. So, Mr. Putin doesn't have an infinite amount of time before havoc is wrought. Kathryn Stoner Support Democracy Paradox on Patreon for bonus episodes and exclusive updates and information. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director at the Center on De...
Scott Radnitz on Why Conspiracy Theories Thrive in Both Democracies and Autocracies
May 17, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThere's something natural and organic about perceiving that the people in power are out to advance their own interests. It's in part because it’s often true. Governments actually do keep secrets from the public. Politicians engage in scandals. There often is corruption at high levels. So, we don't want citizens in a democracy to be too trusting of their politicians. It's healthy to be skeptical of the state and its real abuses and tendencies towards secrecy. The danger is when this distrust ...
Dan Banik is In Pursuit of Development
May 13, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBThis bonus episode is part of a series of interviews available for monthly supporters of Democracy Paradox at Patreon. Other interviews feature guests like Julia Azari, Mila Atmos, and Bob Shrum. But more importantly you'll help the podcast cover important expenses and continue to grow. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter by clicking on the link here. If you want to help the podcast in other ways, please email the host, Justin Kempf, at [email protected]. Dan Banik is a...
Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression
May 10, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBSo, if your aim is to get inside someone's device without their permission and gather up information, you could do that using a very sophisticated commercial spyware technology like Pegasus. The latest iteration of it employs zero click technology meaning that it can target and insert itself on any device without the owner of that device even knowing or being tricked into clicking on a link. That's very powerful, because there is no defense against it. Ronald Deibert A full transcript is a...
Thomas Piketty on Equality
May 03, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBPure economic factors or technological factors or the level of economic development or level of technological development cannot explain the diversity of levels of inequality and structure of inequality that we observe throughout history. Thomas Piketty A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Thomas Piketty is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics and Codirector of the World Inequality Lab. He is also th...
Marta Dyczok and Andriy Kulykov on the Media, Information Warriors, and the Future of Ukraine
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBI heard a verified story of a person who made his way with his family from an occupied town listening to our broadcast, because we were telling them where it was dangerous for them to go and where it was more or less safe to go. So, radio actually saves lives. I probably cannot save lives otherwise. But I can with the help of radio. Andriy Kulykov Recorded on April 19th, 2022. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Marta Dyczok is an Associate Professor at the Depart...
Yascha Mounk on the Great Experiment of Diverse Democracies
April 19, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBSo, there's actually something about the basic mechanism of democracy that does make it harder to sustain diversity. In other ways, the principles of liberal democracy are the right solution. And so, obviously my vision for the future is that of a diverse democracy. But we shouldn't be at ease about the ways in which democracy can sometimes inflame ethnic and religious tensions as well. Yascha Mounk A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Yascha Mounk is a Professor of...
Mark Beissinger on Contemporary Urban Civic Revolutions
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBI think the revolutionary process has become somewhat less consequential in some ways. The ability to bring about substantive change in the wake of revolution has deteriorated for one thing. We've gained certain things as well. I mean, revolutions are no longer as violent as they once were. They're more frequent than they once were, almost more normal in terms of being part of the political landscape in a way that they were not in the past. Mark Beissinger A full transcript is available at...
Craig Whitlock on the Lessons Learned in Afghanistan
April 05, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBIt's still shocking to me to read a lot of these documents and interviews in, The Afghanistan Papers, things that most people would think are obvious. What's the plan to end the war? What benchmarks do we have to achieve so that we know we can leave? You know, none of those things were thought out or articulated. Craig Whitlock A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post and the author of The Afghanistan Pa...
Miles Rapoport on How We Can Achieve Universal Voting
March 29, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBI have worked on voting issues for 35 years, for same-day registration and for opening up the process to younger people and preregistration, and, you know, nevertheless 35 years later we're still at 60 and 65%. 2020 was the highest turnout election ever and it was at 66%. So, I started to think what is it that could really, really move the needle and change the game. Miles Rapoport A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of 100% Democracy: The Case for ...
Between Russia and China: Anja Mihr on Central Asia
March 22, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBRussia... will lose ground here in the region over the next decade and China will fill it, because the Europeans are not doing it. The United States is not doing it. Iran is not doing it and Turkey cannot do it either. Anja Mihr A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region here. Anja Mihr is an associate professor of Political Science at the ...
Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power
March 15, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBBut what we have now is something that has not been sufficiently discussed, sufficiently understood, which is a criminalized state of which Russia is an example, in the Balkans we have some examples, in Latin America Venezuela stands out as an example. And that is essentially that the state becomes an organized criminal organization. An organization that essentially uses the structure, strategies, tactics, modalities of organized crime. Moisés Naím A full transcript is available at www.dem...
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance
March 08, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBIt wasn't because Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood darn well what they were supposed to have. But they never even got the minimum of what they were promised in the constitution. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan here. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili are associate profes...
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World
March 01, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBYou can't protect basic human rights if you don't have democracy. If you're going to protect basic human rights, you need to have things like credible institutions that hold abusers to account. You need to have opportunities for the least advantaged in a society. The people whose rights are most at risk to be able to choose their leaders and choose leaders who will represent them and serve their interests. You need leaders that serve for the common good, not for their own personal gain. Sar...
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities
February 22, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBIf you're actually a real person and you're living your life and you're going into stores and you're riding on a bus or your kids are going to school, what matters is that you be treated with respect. That you have a dignity. And that, I think, at every point that matters most to us is what the book has wound up being about. It’s an essay on respect as a condition of a liberal democracy. Paul Sniderman A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Stru...
Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane on the Decline of Indian Democracy
February 15, 2022 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBYou treat votes as equal. My vote is equal to your vote. But the state treats our bodies as unequal. That logically makes no sense and it is farcical to call it a democracy in the first place. Forget what implications this will have for democracy in the long-term, but to be called a democracy and to have your bodies treated differently is a farce in itself. Debasish Roy Chowdhury A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of To Kill a Democracy: India's Pa...
Lisa Disch on Representation, Constituencies, and Political Leadership
February 08, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBThe tension in what we want from democratic representation is that we want control over our representatives and we want creativity from them. If we control them, they are delegates. They're not representatives. They do what we want. They act in our place instead of us. They act as we would in our place. If they give us creativity, they will bring things out of us and do things for us that we may not have imagined. Lisa Disch A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a s...
Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
February 01, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBFor many Americans, for the first many generations really up through the mid 20th century, the constitutional order seemed to rest on and depend on an economic order in which people had enough economic clout to be independent citizens and voters. Not serfs dependent on some kind of master. Joseph Fishkin A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy here. Josep...
Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
January 25, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBWe have core ideas that form a part of our worldview, but those core ideas are not fixed in the way in which we talk about rationality and interest in that they can evolve. And we have to, when we think about human behavior, political behavior, we have to give serious attention to those ideas and go beyond just fixed material interests. Bilal Baloch A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India here. B...
Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
January 18, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIf I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it's like actually true. Sara Wallace Goodman A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat here. Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University ...
Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch on Migration's Potential to Topple Dictatorships
January 11, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis is money that flows between individuals and families and largely circumvents governments and that's a hugely important point, because the real take home of the book is that when these financial flows are controlled by citizens, it tips the balance of power in favor of citizens. When the international financial flow goes to governments, it tips the balance of power in terms of governments. Joseph Wright A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Mig...
Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
January 04, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBSo, the question is how do you respond to that? If you are the party that sees itself as being on the side of democracy and on the side of maintaining democratic norms and procedures and maintaining this kind of democratic accountability, how do you respond? Do you respond in kind? Do you respond with hardball tactics of your own? Robert Lieberman A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Po...
Angus Deaton on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
December 28, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBIt's this sort of persistent loss of wages, which causes things like loss of marriage, people not living with their kids anymore, disintegration of communities with all of the things in those communities whether it's churches or union halls or society, just friendship that used to be there. And those are the things that cause people to lose meaning or, if you like, lose hope in their lives. Angus Deaton A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Deaths ...
Zeynep Pamuk on the Role of Science and Expertise in a Democracy
December 21, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBScience is never offering the whole truth. It may be offering us something accurate. Scientific findings may be reliable for now, but they are always incomplete. Zeynep Pamuk A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society here. Zeynep Pamuk is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego and the author of the book Politics and Expertise: How to Use...
Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalist Leaders
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBCharismatic leaders who are intent on governing solely using their charismatic authority and subverting other things to their personal power are inherently bad for democracy and inherently illiberal. They're anti-pluralist. They don't want to share their power with others even within their own movement or their own party. They don't tolerate dissent. Caitlin Andrews-Lee A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic ...
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
December 07, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBThe way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are. Stephan Haggard A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World here. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman are the authors of the new book, Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World. Stephan is...
Joshua Yaffa on Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
November 30, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB‘What would you prefer? Would you prefer that this boy, Vasya, die because he couldn't get dialysis? Would you prefer that this girl, Katya, die from her shrapnel wounds that she suffered during the war that was obviously not her fault? Right? Like would it be better if I held my nose and refuse to engage in these compromises so these kids died? Would you be sort of happier, so you could write about how awful the bloody Putin regime is?’ Joshua Yaffa explaining the perspective of Russian hu...
Zoltan Barany on the Ineffectiveness of the Gulf Militaries
November 23, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBThe last time, and luckily this hasn't really happened since 1990, there was minimal resistance from the Kuwaiti and the Saudi forces. So, this obviously is 30 years ago, but there is little reason to believe that in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars that is spent on armaments, this state of affairs has changed. Let me just put it this way. Nobody in Tehran is losing any sleep over the prowess of any of the Gulf militaries. Zoltan Barany A full transcript is available at www.dem...
Amory Gethin on Political Cleavages, Inequality, and Party Systems in 50 Democracies
November 16, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBIndeed, the moderation of left-wing party’s economic policy proposals in the eighties and in the nineties and the decision to promote an unregulated capitalism with no kind of proper compensation and no tax harmonization leading to greater offshore wealth and rising inequality. All these decisions have played a role in leading the working class to take distance from these parties and, at the same time, enabling these new issues to take a growing importance. Amory Gethin A full transcript i...
Daniel Brinks on the Politics of Institutional Weakness
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBWe don't think about institutions until they fail and we think of institutions as being really strong when maybe they've never been challenged. They've never really tried to do anything. Daniel Brinks A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America here. Daniel Brinks joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America. He is the coeditor along with Steven ...
Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBWhat we are doing in this volume is blurring the boundaries between this older conception of top-down mobilized movements and this newer conception of bottom-up organic, spontaneous civil society propelled movements and discovering that there's an awful lot in the middle there. Elizabeth Perry A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements here. Elizabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert join the podcast to discuss...
Susan Rose-Ackerman on the Role of the Executive in Four Different Democracies
October 26, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBMany of these things that you and I are talking about are simply initiatives put forward by the chief executive or maybe by a cabinet minister. Something they want to do and rather than something that they're required to do. And it seems to me that that's a rather fragile base on which to build a more effective participatory process, which doesn't give up on the role of technocracy and expertise. Susan Rose-Ackerman A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short revi...
Tom Ginsburg Shares his Thoughts on Democracy and International Law
October 19, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBAt the end of the day, I am optimistic despite all the evidence. First of all, I think there are a lot of resources that democracies can use. A lot of areas of law, where as long as we recognize what it is we're fighting for, democracy is worth fighting for and have a common view as to what that means that we can advance it in many places, not just here but abroad. And this might sound a little hokey, but there really is a genuine human demand for freedom and that's not going away. Tom Gins...
Robert Meister Believes Justice is an Option
October 12, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBSo, now I've developed a way of talking about revolution as an option that can't be exercised, but that still has present value and I've set up a mechanism for saying what that present value is. Namely the value of the liquidity premium that a democracy that consents to maintaining accumulated wealth can extract for guaranteeing that the wealth continues to accumulate. Robert Meister A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Justice is an Option: A Dem...
Martin Conway Believes "Democracy Owes its Durability Not to its Principles but to its Flexibility." Democracy in Western Europe from 1945 to 1968
October 05, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBWhere you and I and, I think, many others start from an assumption that somehow there is a thing called democracy and we sort of know what it is. But the diversity within democracy is far larger than that. You know, there's clear big institutional temperamental differences between visions of representatives ruling, people ruling, and so on. All these sorts of things are different models of democracy and therefore the word democracy in some respects becomes rather meaningless. Martin Conway ...
Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
September 28, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThe most beautiful thing that happened in Indonesia, by the way, which was a polarized society along religious lines more than anything else, was that by the end of the proceedings, everybody knew what everybody else's problems were, what everyone else's constituencies wanted. They knew if X noticed that Y was making a demand, before long X figured out what was behind the demand and why Y had to make it and whether it was a real demand or whether it was made just for the sake of being on rec...
Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley on the Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
September 21, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBUp to today, since the Mexican government deployed the military in 2006 up to the present, Mexico has experienced close to 200,000 battle deaths. That's roughly the number of battle deaths that took place in the civil war in Guatemala. So, the 36 year old civil war in Guatemala that produced approximately 200,000 battle deaths. That's where Mexico is right now. Guillermo Trejo A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Mexican politics here. Guillermo ...
Rana Siu Inboden on China and the International Human Rights Regime
September 14, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBChinese participation in the human rights regime probably was never really intended to alter human rights so much in China that it would jeopardize the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power. I think China, even if it may have been open to some areas of human rights, I think that we have to keep in mind that the full implementation of human rights including all of the elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would mean that political competition is allowed. And that's just not ...
Timothy Frye Says Putin is a Weak Strongman
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBPutin in the past could claim to have won at least an honest plurality, if not an honest majority of votes given his approval. However, in the upcoming election this fall, in September, it looks like the Kremlin has so restricted political competition that it's going to be a difficult sell to the Russian public to show that these elections are even as legitimate as the elections held in 2016 or in 2011. Timothy Frye A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief prim...
Kathryn Stoner on Russia's Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
August 31, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBBiden's current policy is, you know, we want Putin to calm down, be stable for awhile and turn our focus to restraining China. I don't think that's going to happen. That's not in his interest to do that. So, I think taking our eye off Russia, underestimating it, is the biggest concern for the U.S. currently. Kathryn Stoner A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Russia here. Kathryn Stoner is a professor of political science at Stanford University. ...
Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy
August 24, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIt was an era in which lawmakers and office holders learned that imprecision could actually work to their benefit to allow them to do what they wanted to because there was unclear codification in the law. And so yes, everybody talks about, we have to revise this law or get rid of this law or replace this law. But I want to say, it's not about that. It's about what constitutes a legitimately written, voted upon law. And I think that's something we still haven't countered since 9/11. Karen Gr...
Charles Kupchan on America's Tradition of Isolationism
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBBeginning in the 1990s, and then really picking up after 9/11, the United States overreached ideologically by thinking it could turn Iraq and Afghanistan into Ohio. It overreached economically by throwing open the nation's doors and saying the more trade, the better. And suddenly, I think, Americans said to themselves and to their leaders, ‘Wait a minute. Too much world, not enough America.' Charles Kupchan A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a brief primer on Iso...
Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
August 10, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIt's not just inequality of wealth. It is not just inequality of income, which is big. It's also inequality in terms of the geographical clustering of different strata of the population, of different people. It's inequality in life experiences. It's inequality in treatment. People felt mistreated by those in the upper echelons of society. So, it's not just money. It's also access to public goods, to certain spaces in the city, to education, unemployment benefits, and all sorts of things. But...
Roger Lee Huang on Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Tatmadaw
August 03, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBI think this actually reflects why we've seen a coup now. Clearly, the coup has really brought serious economic devastation for the entire country and the military itself will also not benefit from this. And that to me is the key, because they're not primarily motivated just by economic incentives and spoils. As a systematic military institution, it is driven by their own identity. Their own perception of what the Myanmar modern nation state should look like. Roger Lee Huang A full transcr...
Mallory SoRelle on the Politics of Consumer Credit
July 27, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBAmericans are expected to take on debt, because that's how we're expected to finance everything from basic needs to a college education. And that's a function of economic policy making. That doesn't happen by accident. Mallory SoRelle A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Mallory SoRelle is an assistant professor of public policy at Duke University and the author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection. Key Highlights Include How...
David Stasavage on Early Democracy and its Decline
July 20, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis was not a phenomenon to one specific region. This was nothing that got invented in one place and at one time. It seems to have emerged independently in a wide, wide variety of human societies at different points in time. And to me, that sounds like something that occurs naturally. David Stasavage A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. David Stasavage is the Dean of Social Sciences and a Professor of Politics at New York University. His latest book is called The D...
Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
July 13, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBThe police is even acting directly against the minorities and the Delhi riots of 2020 showed that the police could be on their side in the street in their rioting activities. This is exactly the same in other BGP ruled states like Uttar Pradesh. Now you have indeed a kind of new shift, if you want. It's not only with the blessing of the state. It’s also with the active participation of the state. Christophe Jaffrelot A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Christophe J...
Jan-Werner Müller on Democracy Rules
July 06, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBIt really matters how you set up conflict and how you talk about the issue and above all how you talk about your adversary. That's where I see the decisive difference between those who tend to invoke the people, the common good and et cetera, in a way that is compatible with democracy and then those who talk in a way that, ultimately, is bound to be dangerous for democracy. Jan-Werner Müller A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Jan is a professor of Social Sciences ...
Dorothy Sue Cobble on the Full Rights Feminists
June 29, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBThey wanted the full array of rights. Political rights, yes, they were active in the suffrage movement, but they also wanted economic rights and social rights. They wanted to lessen inequalities. They also wanted the rights of mothers and of children advanced. Dorothy Sue Cobble A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Dorothy Sue Cobble is the Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies Emerita at Rutgers University and the author of For the Many: American Fem...
Freedom House: Sarah Repucci Assesses Freedom in the World
June 22, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBDemocracy is about more than elections. Election day is very important, but what is happening in the country every other day is an integral part to what a democracy is and if you think about the fundamental freedoms that we think of in our own democracy: free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association and assembly, also things like the independence of the judiciary, these are all things that are on the civil liberties side. Sarah Repucci A full transcript is available at www.democ...