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Democracy Works
Democracy Works
Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy

The Democracy Works podcast seeks to answer that question by examining a different aspect of democratic life each week — from voting... more

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Episodes

Sustaining democracy during wartime

Balazs Trencsenyi, co-director of Invisible University for Ukraine, joins us to discuss the university's work to uphold education and democracy... more

09 Dec 2024 · 46 minutes
Telling America's story at the National Archives

Colleen, Shogan, archivist of the United States, joins us for a conversation about democratizing access to national records and running... more

25 Nov 2024 · 43 minutes
Bad Watchdog: The Red Herring

We're excited to bring you an episode from Bad Watchdog, the podcast from the Project on Government Oversight and one... more

18 Nov 2024 · 41 minutes
How strong is support for democracy?

Democracy Works host Michael Berkman talks with Christopher Claassen, a political scientist at the University of Glasgow, about how to... more

11 Nov 2024 · 33 minutes
How the Supreme Court could shape the 2024 election

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's senior legal correspondent, joins us to discuss how the Supreme Court has shaped — and could continue... more

28 Oct 2024 · 45 minutes
Eddie Glaude Jr. on the peril of outsourcing democracy

Author and scholar Eddue Glaude Jr. joins us to discuss what happens when we let the heavy democratic lifting fall... more

14 Oct 2024 · 45 minutes
Liberalism is a lifestyle

Chris Beem talks with political theorist Alexandre Lefebvre about why liberalism is more than just a political ideas and procedures,... more

30 Sep 2024 · 38 minutes
The immigration stories that aren't told

Anthropologist Jason De León joins us to discuss his book "Soldiers and Kings," which tells the stories of smugglers who... more

16 Sep 2024 · 41 minutes
How the National Popular Vote could change presidential elections

We're back from summer break with a deep dive on the National Popular vote Interstate Compact, a campaign to render... more

02 Sep 2024 · 47 minutes
Making Peace Visible: In search of good conflict

While Democracy Works is on summer break, we bring you an episode from our friends at Making Peace Visible, a... more

08 Jul 2024 · 33 minutes
Democracy Works
Sustaining democracy during wartime
Democracy Works