This new podcast series, “Neither Free Nor Fair?” is produced at the University of Washington and hosted by James Long, Associate Professor of Political Science.
Prof. Scott Radnitz (https://jsis.washington.edu/people/scott-radnitz/) of UW joins James to discuss Russia and Vladimir Putin's influence on elections & democracy at home and abroad; potential hacking in the 2020 election; and the role that conspiracy theories play in post-Soviet politics. Scott is the author of the new book, Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/revealing-schemes-9780197573549?lang=en&cc=us), as well Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801449537?ie=UTF8&tag=faculty03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801449537).
5 May 2021
Democratic Backsliding in American States: Jake Grumbach
Jake Grumbach (https://sites.google.com/view/jakegrumbach), Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, joins Morgan and Nicolas to discuss the indicators and causes of American democratic backsliding. Jake is the author of a forthcoming paper (https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fc682q88keqycp6s%2Fgrumbach_laboratories_of_democratic_backsliding.pdf%3Fraw%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNENOLnNunOYFK0GXabqBdPw_XYUhA) entitled “Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding.” Coverage of the article, which details his development of the State Democracy Index utilized to assess subnational institutions and policies, has extended to pieces in The Economist (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/13/in-america-republican-led-states-are-rolling-back-electoral-and-civil-liberties), New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/opinion/voter-suppression.html), New York Magazine (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/republican-war-on-democracy-voter-suppression-georgia.html), Vox (https://www.vox.com/2021/4/5/22358325/study-republican-control-state-government-bad-for-democracy), and The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/30/jody-hice-trump-gop-radicalization/).
22 Apr 2021
Our Data, Whose Democracy? with Wong and Weller
Wendy Wong (https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/wong-wendy/), Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto & Nicholas Weller (https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/nweller), Associate Professor of Political Science at UC-Riverside join James to discuss datafication, human rights, regulation of big tech, and democracy. Wendy and Nick are the authors of the forthcoming paper (https://www.aies-conference.com/2021/accepted-papers/) "We Haven’t Gone Paperless Yet: Why the Printing Press Can Help Us Understand Data and AI." Wendy is the author of Internal Affairs (https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Affairs-Structure-Transforms-Rights/dp/0801450799/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Internal+Affairs+Wendy+Wong&qid=1618953417&sr=8-1) and Nick is the author of Finding Pathways: Mixed-Method Research for Studying Causal Mechanism (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=KjezAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&dq=info:ci_3T4gF5a0J:scholar.google.com&ots=n-zopDNYBh&sig=0ZObtOO60uUKdKplN2s9tjlKVak#v=onepage&q&f=false). They have written recent pieces on facial recognition and the Capitol Riot (https://theconversation.com/as-u-s-capitol-investigators-use-facial-recognition-it-begs-the-question-who-owns-our-faces-153253), and the role of big tech and regulation of speech (https://theconversation.com/facebook-is-stepping-in-where-governments-wont-on-free-expression-156189).
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