Democracy in Question?
Hosted by Shalini Randeria · Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
4.4from 31 ratings
- 113
- Episodes
- 39
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Democracy in Question?
Today, liberal democracies are under unprecedented strain from within and without. In each episode, renowned social anthropologist Shalini Randeria invites a leading scholar to explore the challenges and dilemmas facing democracies around the world. They investigate what needs to be done to ensure the future well-being of our democratic institutions and practices.
- Publisher
- Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
- Category
- government · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
39 of 113 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Maria Ressa on Protecting Independent Media in the Age of Disinformation
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Gina Romero: Restrictions affecting Right to Assembly and Youth Activism
10 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Maria Ressa on Protecting Independent Media in the Age of Disinformation
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Why are governments allowing its citizens to be treated like Pavlov's dogs? the 35-page preliminary report that we released on July 1, and we handed it in Geneva to the member countries at the global dialogue. We looked for the positives that the tech can do, but the harms are so clear that if we cannot neutralize the harms, the world will tip, and it will not tip in a positive way. That's why I guess... I said in December 2021 at the Nobel Lecture that we are standing on the rubble of the world that was. An atom bomb exploded in our public information ecosystem. It was a quiet explosion. You didn't have the kind of alarms that went off when 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. […]
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- Maria Ressa
- Gina Romero
- Marlene Engelhorn
- Michael Ignatieff
- Luiza Bialasiewicz
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 12 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Shalini Randeria host the show. Published by Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
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