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Does mandatory civic education increase voter turnout?
Two of our Penn State colleagues join us this week to discuss their recent findings on the connection between state-mandated civics tests and voter turnout. Jilli Jung, a doctoral student in education policy and Maithreyi Gopalan, assistant
A deep look at political loss
Democracy is sometimes described as "a system where political parties lose elections." That's true but doesn't capture the deeper feelings of grief and grievance associated with political loss. We dive into those emotions this week with Jul
When populism and democracy collide
Cas Mudde, one of the world's leading experts in the study of populism and far-right politics, joins us this week to discuss the tensions between populism and democracy, and why populism has increased around world in recent years. Mudde is
Understanding union voters
In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members—mostly men—and their families and neighbo
A conflict at the heart of our political disagreements
Why do we disagree about the causes of and solutions to social inequality? What explains our different viewpoints on Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, income inequality, and immigration? Penn State professors John Iceland and Eric Silver join us
What can we learn from early democracies?
This week, we're handing the microphone to Penn State student Joey Picarillo for an interview about the rise and fall of early democracies and what lessons we can learn from them today. Joey is a studying political science at Penn State Wor
Building better bureaucracy
Before we get to the show notes, we invite you to take our listener survey (https://www.democracyworkspodcast.com/survey/) for a chance to win a Democracy Works coffee mug! COVID-19 brought the problems with government technology into sharp
Tim Miller on why Republicans stuck with Trump
Before we get to the show notes, we invite you to take our listener survey (https://www.democracyworkspodcast.com/survey/) for a chance to win a Democracy Works coffee mug! Chris Beem talks with former Republican political operative Tim Mil
"Democracy '24" on the debate stage
Before we get to the show notes, we invite you to take our listener survey (https://www.democracyworkspodcast.com/survey/) for a chance to win a Democracy Works coffee mug! We're back from summer break and diving into the 2024 election seas
When the People Decide: Libraries as civic spaces
We're excited to present an episode from our sister podcast,When the People Decide (http://thepeopledecide.show), about how libraries can be sites of civic engagement and building a new social fabric in America's cities and towns. Librarian
A deep dive on parties and political reform
Americans want electoral reforms so that they can have more choice in elections. Recent surveys show that 20 to 50 percent of Americans are open to a new electoral system, while demand for a third party has crept upward since Gallup began a
Democracy Paradox: The democratic crisis you haven't heard about
This week, we bring you an interview from the Democracy Paradox podcast about the political crisis in Peru and how it fits into the bigger picture of democratic erosion around the world. Democracy Paradox host Justin Kempf thinks Peru is an
Village SquareCast: Can curiosity save us?
This episode from the Village SquareCast is a conversation between Manu Meel, executive director of Bridge USA and Mónica Guzmán, a senior fellow for public practice at Braver Angels and author of I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have
Democracy-ish: Can America's democracy be saved?
Political Historian, author and editor Eli Merritt joins #democracyish to provide some historical grounding for the place we find ourselves in America's story. America is at a tipping point, the question is what direction does it fall?!? Da
Democracy needs serious people
Before we take a break for the summer, we wanted to talk about some of the events that have been on our minds lately, and some of what we'll be watching over the summer. Chris Beem and Candis Watts Smith talk about what's happening in North
Gen Z's fight for democracy
We've talked about generational politics on the show before with episodes on Millennials (https://democracyworks.simplecast.com/episodes/alter) and Baby Boomers (https://democracyworks.simplecast.com/episodes/munger). This week, we turn our
Think Inclusive: Facing the Anti-CRT Movement
This week, we bring you an episode from Think Inclusive (https://www.thinkinclusive.us/podcast), a podcast that builds bridges between families, educators, and disability rights advocates to create a shared understanding of inclusive educat
Is America in a third reconstruction?
Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the 21st Century, (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peniel-e-joseph/the-third-reconstruction/9781541600744/?lens=basic-books) joins us th
Between democracy and autocracy
Between democracy and autocracy is an anocracy, defined by political scientists as a country that has elements of both forms of government — usually one that's on the way up to becoming a full democracy or on the way down to full autocracy.
Living in a fragmented democracy
At the end of March, millions of Americans lost access to Medicaid as pandemic-era expansions to the program were rolled back. At the same time, North Carolina's legislature voted to expand Medicaid, marking a demonstration of bipartisan ag
Feet in 2 Worlds: Immigrants in a Divided Country
This week, we bring you an episode from Feet in 2 Worlds (https://fi2w.org/) and its series Immigrants in a Divided Country, which explores the current political landscape from the perspective of immigrants. In this personal audio essay, wr
Harnessing the power of juries
Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life, especially in high profile cases like the trial of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd's murder in 2021. This week, we explore juries as a democrat
Civic learning amid the culture wars
More than ever, civic learning is needed to ensure each and every person across this country has the necessary tools to engage as members of our self-governing society. However, schools are also a growing part of the culture wars. According
Finding the "we" in civic engagement
People who want to improve the world often encounter problems of collective action (how to get many individuals to act in concert), of discourse (how to talk and think productively about contentious matters), and of exclusion. To get things
Why politics makes us depressed — and what we can do about it
Many of us can conjure moments when politics made us feel sad. But how often do those feelings translate into more serious forms of depression or other mental health issues? And if politics does make us depressed, what do we do about it? Ch
What will it take to make democracy more representative?
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent? Some experts suggest that women lack sufficient ambition to run for office relative to men, while others say that districts with majority
Separating news from noise
How much news is too much? Or not enough? News Over Noise, the new podcast from Penn State's News Literacy Initiative explores that question and offers guidance on how to consume news that enhances your participation in our democracy withou
What we learned from our guests in 2022
We've had some incredible guests on the show in 2022. For our final episode of the year, we're taking a look back at what we've learned from them. Michael Berkman, Chris Beem, Candis Watts Smith, and Jenna Spinelle revisit our episodes with
Where do the parties go from here?
A few days after the midterms, a Substack post (https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/an-electoral-reprieve)from Dave Karpf caught our eye. In it, he takes up the question of how the Republican and Democratic parties should move forward after th
The real free speech problem on campus
Across op-ed pages and Substack newsletters, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal orthodoxy and forcibly silence anyone who dares to disagree. These commentators lament the d
