New Books in Political Science

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Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2025 – 01:13:10
What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
May 14, 2025 – 37:21
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 57:52
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
May 12, 2025 – 01:00:09
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
May 12, 2025 – 46:31
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
May 11, 2025 – 58:34
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
May 10, 2025 – 01:16:41
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
May 9, 2025 – 01:11:04
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024)
May 8, 2025 – 52:44
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 7, 2025 – 48:51
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 6, 2025 – 39:25
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5, 2025 – 59:15
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
May 4, 2025 – 51:15
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
May 3, 2025 – 59:43
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
May 2, 2025 – 44:27
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
May 1, 2025 – 49:08
Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 34:26
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
Apr 30, 2025 – 55:33
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Apr 29, 2025 – 32:50
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Apr 27, 2025 – 01:11:14
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 26, 2025 – 01:20:48
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025 – 50:06
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:22:50
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
Apr 23, 2025 – 48:00
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 22, 2025 – 56:59
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
Apr 21, 2025 – 42:41
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 20, 2025 – 48:06
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025 – 46:29
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Apr 18, 2025 – 33:12
Is Democracy and Peace Possible in Myanmar? A Conversation with Claire Smith
Apr 17, 2025 – 41:11
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:06:42
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Apr 15, 2025 – 51:48
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Apr 14, 2025 – 56:21
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 13, 2025 – 01:11:24
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
Apr 12, 2025 – 01:05:20
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 11, 2025 – 38:43
Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:41:07
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 9, 2025 – 01:04:06
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 8, 2025 – 44:47
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:02:52
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 6, 2025 – 24:38
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
Apr 5, 2025 – 39:28
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine
Apr 4, 2025 – 36:27
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
Apr 3, 2025 – 45:37
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
Apr 2, 2025 – 47:40
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:02:10
Postscript: History, Narratives, and Political Power--An Emergency Oral History Project
Mar 31, 2025 – 46:07
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025 – 01:01:11
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025 – 40:47