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Guillermo Trejo on Accountability, Impunity, and the Fate of New Democracies
Guillermo Trejo is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Director of the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His latest book (coauthored with Lucía Tiscornia and Juan Albarracín) is Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with…Read More
Kenneth Roberts Says the Left Pays a Steep Price for Breaking with Democracy
Kenneth Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the coauthor (with Santiago Anria) of Polarization and Democracy in Latin America: Legacies of the Left Turn. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The left pays a very steep price when…Read More
Sheri Berman Says the Democratic Recession Was Not a Surprise
Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, the author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, and “Democracy’s Troubles Should Be No Surprise” in the most recent issue of the Journal of Democracy. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. If democracy…Read More
Christopher Walker Revisits Sharp Power
Christopher Walker is the Vice President for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He was the Vice President of Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy between 2016-2025. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Sharp power seeks to exploit the openness of free societies…Read More
Hugo Drochon Says Elites Are Inevitable
Hugo Drochon is an Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham and the author of a new book titled Elites and Democracy. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. I don’t think populism is necessarily a challenge to democracy. I think it’s part and…Read More
Milan Svolik Asks: Do Voters Really Support Democracy?
Milan Svolik is the Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of the 2012 book The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. He has also published a variety of influential journal articles such as “Polarization Versus Democracy”, “When Polarization Trumps Civic Virtue”, and “In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right.” The Democracy…Read More
Javier Pérez Sandoval Reveals Democracy’s Hidden Vulnerability: The Hollowing of the State
Javier Pérez Sandoval is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent article (coauthored with Andrés Mejía Acosta) is “Why Populists Hollow Out Their States.” The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. By…Read More
Kate Baldwin Explains Why Christianity Fights for Democracy in Africa
Kate Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of the book Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The group of people who have an…Read More