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The Bombs America Left Behind, with Erin Lin
Today on Scope Conditions: when the bombs don’t go off, the war isn't over. We tend to think of peace as beginning when the bombs stop falling. But as our guest today shows us, this is only half the story. Over the course of the Vietnam War
When Unequal Places Invest, with Alice Xu
Today on the podcast, why are more unequal neighborhoods sometimes better at promoting the collective good? A world of high inequality is, in many ways, a world in which the fortunes of the rich are detached from the welfare of the poor. It
Rules 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 enough questions in themselves. And, yet — they simplify away an important complexity. They
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 the state – like militias, rebel groups, criminal gangs, and other external, violent orga
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 Escobar's drug cartel in Colombia. We sometimes think of these criminal groups as having p
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 new student is assigned to a House that aligns with their true character. The mystical Sorting Hat
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 problems. But the issues that capture public attention — the ones on which states have incent
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 groups – like rebel militias and state armies. But as our guest today reminds us, a leading cause
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 help create shared political identities within and across racial minority groups and strong ince
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 misinformation as a powerful political weapon – a weapon that is massively amplified by social media. A la
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-known mode of repression in authoritarian settings. We often think of a show trial as a sham version of th
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 sought to explain anti-immigrant bias, they’ve tended to focus on one of two possible causes: the perceive
“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 the dramatically higher rates at which the police use force against Black and Latinx peop
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 partisan polarization, we’re often thinking about the United States – and about how the policy attitudes or ideologi
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 expressions of dissent are quickly quashed. So the online world – especially social media – has emerged
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 a population of 450 million, its administrative bureaucracy is on par with that of a moderate-si
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 democratic representation in terms of the outcomes that citizens get. For instance, we compare th
How Palestine Polarized, with Dana El Kurd
Today on Scope Conditions, we’re speaking with Dr. Dana El Kurd (https://danaelkurd.weebly.com), an assistant professor of political science at the University of Richmond, about her recent book,Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authori
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 (http://taraslough.com/), an Assistant Professor of Politics at NYU, who co-led with Daniel Rubenson (https://www.rubenson.org/) a metaketa on the governance
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 standard for policy evaluation. If you want to know if an intervention will work, run a ra
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 Professor at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Hans Kohn member (2021-
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 turn, decide to take the law into their own hands? And once mob justice becomes commonplace
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 dictatorships might seem an unusual place to go looking for institutions: the rules and structure
Manipulating Personnel for Power, with Mai Hassan
Our guest today is Dr. Mai Hassan (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/maihassan/), an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Mai is the author of a recent book,Regime Threats and State Solutions (https://www.cambri
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 order to protect their own hold on power. For the most part, elections are events that happe
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 (http://justinschon.com/), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Virginia’s Democratic Statecraft Lab. In his ne
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 (https://charlottecavaille.wordpress.com/), an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’
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 to? Put differently, when is indifference a deliberate policy strategy? We talk with Dr. Kel
The Gravitational Pull of Europe's Far Right, with Tarik Abou-Chadi
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tarik Abou-Chadi (https://www.tarikabouchadi.net/), an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Zürich, about how far-right parties have reshaped politics in advanced democracies. Consi
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 key ingredient as being an elected legislature that can constrain the executive: an electe
