Episode 1: The world’s biggest democracy goes to the polls

The world’s biggest democracy is currently in the middle of an election that will take six weeks to play out and involve over a billion people. Ben Ansell takes a closer look at the state of democracy in India, to try to understand what’s happening elsewhere.

Guests:
Dr Pavi Suryanarayan, Assistant professor at the LSE
Daniel Ziblatt, author of How Democracies Die
Mitali Mukherjee, Director of the Reuters institute’s Journalism programme

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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil
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