Simon Shuster is a staff writer for Time magazine who covers politics in Ukraine and Russia. His new book is called The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky. Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Proudly sponsored by the Kellogg Institute... Continue Reading →
Marcela Rios Tobar is the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at International IDEA. From March 2022 until January 2023 she served as the Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Chile under Gabriel Boric. This episode was made in partnership with the Constitution Building Programme at International IDEA Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon... Continue Reading →
Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts. He has written many books. His most recent is Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism. He has also authored the article "Why Democracy Survives Populism" in the Journal of Democracy. Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Proudly sponsored by... Continue Reading →
Ashutosh Varshney is the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University. He is the author of many books and papers on India and its politics. His most recent article (coauthored with Connor Staggs), published in Journal of Democracy, is "Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow." Access Episodes Ad-Free on... Continue Reading →
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 →
