The Ballpark podcast
Hosted by Chris Gilson · LSE Film and Audio Team
4.5from 11 ratings
- 5,798
- Episodes
- 81
- Transcribed
- 11
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
- 25M
- YouTube views
About The Ballpark podcast
The Ballpark is the LSE Phelan US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more closely into what's going on behind the headlines.
- Publisher
- LSE Film and Audio Team
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Oct 2006
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
81 of 5,798 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reforming the American federal republic | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Regional Devolution: pathway or roadblock? | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rethinking the rules of political representation | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
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Reforming the American federal republic | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The outbreak of the Civil War, arguably, obviously, the cause of the Civil War was disagreements and tensions between the slave states and the non-slave states over slavery and everything that went with it. But they had managed those tensions until the only national political party, which is the Democratic Party, breaks up. And as soon as that party breaks in half, You head towards civil war because there's no longer any institution to manage the negotiations that are necessary. The New Deal is another example. In each of these times, reformations and changes in the party system take place in order to change the Constitution and make it continue to be workable. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Ballpark podcast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Jack Rakove
- Ganna Pogrebna
- Mona Sloane
- Lindsey Cameron
- Chinmayi Sharma
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 24,524,494
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 11 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts The Ballpark podcast?
Chris Gilson host the show. Published by LSE Film and Audio Team.
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The show publishes bi-weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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