By Justin Kempf This list is different than most. What sets it apart is not simply that it focuses on books about democracy, but that it looks for ones that will challenge our assumptions and expectations. For those of us who have read extensively about democracy for years, this becomes very difficult. But quite a... Continue Reading →
Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. What we really need to do is... Continue Reading →
Considerations and Reconsiderations on Constitution Making, Part 1 By Sumit Bisarya On December 17, Chileans – for the second time in two years - voted to reject a draft constitution bringing to an end the long constitution making process which emerged from the social uprisings of November 2019. On the same day, Chad held a... Continue Reading →
Sebnem Gumuscu is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College and the author of Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. If these Islamist organizations want to stay in these contexts and keep playing the democratic game, they... Continue Reading →
Bethany Allen is the China reporter at Axios and the author of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. In the past 26 years, to this day, there has not been one major Hollywood production that has gone against... Continue Reading →
Two Unexpectedly Different Political Paths By Alexandros Ntaflos A few days ago, Greece was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Polytechnic uprising. According to many historians, the radical nature of this uprising played an important role in the subsequent major social change brought about by the Metapolitefsi, gradually consolidating the political hegemony of the... Continue Reading →
Katlyn Carter is an assistant professor of history at Notre Dame University. She is the author of Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. If we're thinking about democracy as something broader that is producing equality, justice or these... Continue Reading →
