
Scope Conditions Podcast
Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou
5.0from 59 ratings
- 37
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 59
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Scope Conditions Podcast
A podcast showcasing cutting-edge research in comparative politics.
- Publisher
- Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou
- Category
- government · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 May 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 37 episodes have a transcript.

6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Bombs America Left Behind, with Erin Lin

23 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
When Unequal Places Invest, with Alice Xu

17 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
Rules of Law, with Egor Lazarev
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The Bombs America Left Behind, with Erin Lin
Published 6 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Another respondent, so Paul, he says how after rainy season, he noticed that these bombies just have a way of floating up to the surface as like the soil shifts as a result of the incoming rains. And what I find is that farmers are changing rapidly. their behavior in concrete ways in response to this uncertainty. So you see a lot of different bomb avoidance strategies. You see farmers essentially working on their land in a very counterintuitive way. This means they're farming smaller pieces of their land and avoiding the This also means that they're avoiding heavy machinery that might increase yield overall if they had full access to their land and could, you know, use things like tractors and irrigation and rototillers safely, but cannot. […]
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- Erin Lin
- Alice Xu
- Egor Lazarev
- Niloufer Siddiqui
- Jessie Trudeau
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 32 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 27 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100
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- Quality
- 22
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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