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How Fragile is American Democracy? With Archon Fung
Transition Lab
English - July 09, 2024 13:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBPolitics News Government political appointees transfer of power chief of staff confirmation process transition lab david marchick transition team presidential transtion obama presidential election Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: America’s at a crossroads. Where do we go from here? With Judy Woodruff
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, you can almost feel the tension rising in the air. Today on Transition Lab, we talk with Harvard professor Archon Fung about why political discourse today feels so rough, why our democratic institutions feel so fragile and what we might do about it.
Archon Fung is the director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the current Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He’s been at Harvard since 1999 and has authored five books, edited four collections and written dozens of articles for a wide variety of journals and publications.
A complete transcript of the episode can be found here.