Scope Conditions Podcast
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Scope Conditions Podcast
A podcast showcasing cutting-edge research in comparative politics.
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35 EpisodenRules of Law, with Egor Lazarev
Political analysts are thinking a lot these days about the rule of law: where it comes from, what sustains it, how it can break down. Those are hard e...
Violence as Campaign Strategy, with Niloufer Siddiqui
When we think of weak democracies around the world, we often think of their inability to maintain a monopoly on violence because of challenges outside...
How Criminal Governance Undermines Elections, with Jessie Trudeau
In democracies all around the world, criminal organizations are involved in electoral politics. Notable examples include the Sicilian mafia and Pablo...
What College Dorms can teach us about Culture, with Joan Ricart-Huguet
Today on Scope Conditions: college dorms shed light on where group culture comes from and how it molds us.
At Harry Potter’s alma mater, each ne...
Statecraft as Stagecraft, with Iza (Yue) Ding
Most governments around the world – whether democracies or autocracies – face at least some pressure to respond to citizen concerns on some social pro...
How the UN Keeps Peace Among Neighbors, with William G. Nomikos
Today on Scope Conditions, what’s the secret to successful peacekeeping?
We often think of civil conflict as being driven by organized, armed gr...
Race-Based Coalitions in Three Chinatowns, with Jae Yeon Kim
Today on Scope Conditions: when is racial status a unifying force in politics?
Shared experiences of prejudice and discrimination can sometimes...
Can We Immunize Against Misinformation? with Sumitra Badrinathan
Today on Scope Conditions, can we teach voters how to tell truth from lies?
Around the world, governments and political parties wield mis...
Trial and Terror, with Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh
Today on Scope Conditions: why the judge’s gavel is sometimes mightier than the sword.
Political trials – or show trials – are a well-kno...
Overcoming the Hijab Penalty, with Donghyun Danny Choi
Today on Scope Conditions: what drives discrimination against immigrants – and what can be done about it?
When social scientists have sou...
“Defunding the Police” as Transitional Justice, with Genevieve Bates
A little over two years ago, mass protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, focused public attention on...
Partisan Polarization in Israel, with Chagai Weiss
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about rising partisan animosity and what can be done about it.
When we think about partis...
Online Dissent, Offline Repression, with Alexandra Siegel
Can autocrats fight online dissent with offline repression?
In the world’s most authoritarian regimes, on-the-ground forms of protest or express...
Europe's Hidden Legal Architects, with Tommaso Pavone
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re talking about the origins of supranational power.
The European Union has no army. It levies no taxes. Covering...
Diagnosing Democracy's Representation Gap, with Sergio Montero
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we ask: what happens when your favorite candidate isn’t even running?
We often think about the quality of d...
How Palestine Polarized, with Dana El Kurd
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re speaking with Dr. Dana El Kurd, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Richmond, about her...
Randomizing Together (Part 2), with Tara Slough and Graeme Blair
Today’s episode is Part 2 of our conversation about metaketas with Dr. Tara Slough, an Assistant Professor of Politics at NYU, who co-led with Daniel...
Randomizing Together (Part 1), with Tara Slough and Graeme Blair
The last two decades have seen an explosion of field experimentation in political science and economics. Field experiments are often seen as the gold...
Why Empires Declared a War on Drugs, with Diana Kim
Today on Scope Conditions: how the paper-pushers of Empires reshaped colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Our guest is Dr. Diana Kim, an Assistant Pr...
Can Boosting State Capacity Curb Social Disorder? with Anna Wilke
Today we are talking about the problem of maintaining social order. In particular, what happens when citizens see the police as ineffective and, in tu...
The Autocrat's Gambit, with Anne Meng
By their very nature, autocracies are political systems in which power is highly concentrated; dictators can do pretty much as they please. So dictato...
Manipulating Personnel for Power, with Mai Hassan
Our guest today is Dr. Mai Hassan, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Mai is the author of a recent book, Regi...
Voter Suppression Goes Global, with Elizabeth Iams Wellman
This is a conversation about the politics of voting from abroad: in particular, about how governments manipulate emigrants’ access to the ballot in or...
Surviving the Syrian Civil War, with Justin Schon
In this episode of Scope Conditions, we talk about how civilians seek to survive civil war. Our guest is Dr. Justin Schon, a postdoctoral scholar at t...
Redistribution as Fairness, with Charlotte Cavaillé
We are talking today about the politics of redistribution in an age of rising inequality.
Our guest is Dr. Charlotte Cavaillé, an Assista...
Strategic Indifference as Refugee Policy in the Global South, with Kelsey Norman
In this episode, we ask: when a state doesn’t enforce the rules, is it because they don’t have the capacity to do so, or because they’ve chosen not t...
The Gravitational Pull of Europe's Far Right, with Tarik Abou-Chadi
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tarik Abou-Chadi, an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Zürich, about how far-right parti...
How Strong Legislatures Emerge, with Ken Opalo
In this episode, we talk about how strong legislatures emerge. When we think about what makes a political system a democracy, we usually think of one...
Public Education as an Autocratic Project, with Agustina Paglayan
In this conversation, we talk with Dr. Agustina Paglayan, an assistant professor of political science at UC San Diego, about her project “The Dark Sid...
Middle-Class Guardians of Autocracy, with Bryn Rosenfeld
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Bryn Rosenfeld, an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, about her new book, The Autocratic Middl...
The Economics of Playing the “Identity Card,” with Nikhar Gaikwad
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nikhar Gaikwad, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, about his book project on what...
The Upside of Nationalism, with Aram Hur
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Aram Hur, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, about her book project Narrativ...
Forging Democracy out of the Trauma of Repression, with Elizabeth Nugent
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Elizabeth Nugent, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about her new book, After Repressi...
The Promise and Limits of Intergroup Contact, with Salma Mousa
In this episode, we talk about improving relations between social groups. For decades, social scientists and policymakers have been examining whether...
Introducing Scope Conditions
Introducing Scope Conditions, a podcast about cutting-edge research in comparative politics.