September 28, 2020

Neither Free Nor Fair? Susan Hyde: Democratic Backsliding in the International Environment

https://soundcloud.com/political-economy-forum-at-university-of-washington/democratic-backsliding-in-the-international-environment

 

Neither Free Nor Fair? podcast #1: Democratic Backsliding in the International Environment.

Guest: Susan Hyde, Professor of Political Science and the Avice M. Saint Chair in Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

This episode marks the inaugural podcast in the series, where James Long speaks with Professor Susan Hyde of UC-Berkeley about Democratic Backsliding in the International Environment, a title taken from her article published in Science Magazine in September 2020.

On the podcast, they discuss recent trends of democratic backsliding in the world today, threats to election security, the roles that citizen activism and the international community have played supporting (or undermining) democracy, and thoughts on what the US can learn about its own elections from her work in other countries.

Other published work mentioned in the podcast:

Eric Bjornlund’s book Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. Eric is the co-founder and President of Democracy International.

Amartya Sen’s paper “Democracy as a Universal Value” in the Journal of Democracy.

Adam Przeworski’s book Why Bother with Elections?.

David Shimer’s book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference.

Listeners may also be interested in a related recent Political Economy Forum’s podcast #5 – Populism vs. Liberal Democracy with Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock.