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Democracy Works

Democracy Works

254 Episodes • By Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy • www.democracyworkspodcast.com/...
The Democracy Works podcast seeks to answer that question by examining a different aspect of democratic life each week — from voting to criminal justice to the free press and everything in between. We interview experts who study democracy, as well as people who are out there doing the hard work of d ...more
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Harnessing the power of juries
Juries have been at the center of some of the most e... more
Mar 20 2023 46m
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Civic learning amid the culture wars
More than ever, civic learning is needed to ensure e... more
Mar 6 2023 45m
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Finding the "we" in civic engagement
People who want to improve the world often encounter... more
Feb 27 2023 38m
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Why politics makes us depressed — and what we can do about it
Many of us can conjure moments when politics made us... more
Feb 20 2023 43m
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What will it take to make democracy more representative?
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial ... more
Feb 6 2023 46m
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Separating news from noise
How much news is too much? Or not enough? News Over ... more
Jan 23 2023 46m
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What we learned from our guests in 2022
We've had some incredible guests on the show in 2022... more
Dec 19 2022 46m
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Where do the parties go from here?
A few days after the midterms, a Substack post from ... more
Dec 12 2022 45m
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The real free speech problem on campus
Across op-ed pages and Substack newsletters,  colleg... more
Dec 5 2022 46m
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Jamelle Bouie makes the case for majoritarianism
Jamelle Bouie's writing spans everything from 19th c... more
Nov 21 2022 44m
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Our conversation with Josh Shapiro [rebroadcast]
We talked with Pennsylvania Attorney General (and no... more
Nov 14 2022 31m
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States united for democracy
With hundreds of elections deniers running in the mi... more
Nov 7 2022 39m
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Celebrating democracy's small victories
Amid election deniers and political polarization, it... more
Oct 31 2022 44m
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Climate change is everyone's fight
The conversation about climate change has come a lon... more
Oct 24 2022 43m
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Francis Fukuyama on the promise and peril of liberalism
It's no secret that liberalism didn't always live up... more
Oct 17 2022 42m
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The backbone of democracy is now the face of fraud
This episode is part of the series 2022 Midterms: Wh... more
Oct 10 2022 40m
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How Democrats can harness grassroots energy
The Democratic Party saw a surge in grassroots activ... more
Oct 3 2022 39m
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When should the states decide?
Following the Dobbs  v. Jackson Women's Health Organ... more
Sep 26 2022 46m
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Chris Beem on the seven democratic virtues
This week, we bring you an episode from Future Hinds... more
Sep 19 2022 40m
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Rural broadband and the politics of "good enough"
COVID-19 showed just how essential high-speed Intern... more
Sep 12 2022 44m
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A deep dive into the administrative state
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act shines a ... more
Sep 5 2022 42m
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Reflecting on the January 6 hearings and what's happened since
Michael Berkman, Chris Beem, Candis Watts Smith, and... more
Aug 29 2022 32m
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A new approach to breaking our media silos
It's no secret that there's a partisan divide in the... more
Aug 1 2022 28m
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Laboratories against democracy [rebroadcast]
Jake Grumbach's book "Laboratories against Democracy... more
Jul 18 2022 43m
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How positive and negative freedoms shape democracy
From COVID-19 policies to reproductive rights, conve... more
Jun 20 2022 32m
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