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Who Is Democracy Actually For? People, Power, and the Fight Against Democratic Decli…

4/29/2026 • 58 min

This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Esam Boraey speaks with Shandana Khan Mohmand and Marjoke Oosterom, democracy experts at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, to unpack the takeaways of the newly released Democracy Report “Where’s the Dēmos in Democracy? Building Democratic Futures and Resisting Autocracy.” At a moment when aut… Play episode

Assessing Global Democratic Health Amidst a Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle
The British General Election of 2024: A Conversation with Robert Ford and …
Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa
How Bolsonaro was Convicted: The Role of the Judiciary During and After Au…
Nikki Luke, "Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy De…
Shameem Black, "Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions" (C…
The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy A…
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us Th…
Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of …
Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Prom…
Rebecca Buxton and Samuel Ritholtz, "The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Sea…
Jane Vaynman, "Enemies in Agreement: Political Volatility and the Design o…
169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual …
Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialo…
Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: …
Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birt…
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corpo…
Radio ReOrient 14.2: State of the Ummah: Authoritarianism and Resistance: …
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recen…
Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent Hist…
Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Co…
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (C…
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations …
Marta Lorimer, "Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and F…
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty …
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge…
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture W…
Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity…
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in…
Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conver…
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influ…
A Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 …
Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic A…
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for La…
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin…
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Adminis…
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity…
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporat…
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divi…
Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’…

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