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Political Science
The New Books in Political Science podcast provides lively discussions of politics based on the work of political scientists (and scholars concerned with politics in other disciplines). The podcast thinks holistically about politics – from global to local.
Our hosts! Lilly Goren is professor of Political Science at Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Susan Liebell is professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Lamis Abdelaaty is associate professor of Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs.
August 9, 2026
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations (Leiden University Press, 2026) examines how Chin…
August 9, 2026
Beyond Free Speech
Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author…
August 7, 2026
The Environmental Republic
Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty wit…
August 6, 2026
Inside Parties
Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how par…
August 5, 2026
Boss Lincoln
We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to…
August 2, 2026
A Post-Liberal Peace
In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising power…
August 2, 2026
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion (Routledge, 2026) examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and U…
July 31, 2026
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 20…
July 30, 2026
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm
How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnati…
July 30, 2026
The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repre…
July 28, 2026
Authoritarian Markets
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978 China …
July 25, 2026
Casting War As Love
Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind R…
July 23, 2026
The Authority of International Courts
Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A B…
July 23, 2026
Backlash Presidents
Julia Azari, Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, has a new, award-winning[*] book centering on the connection between race and th…
July 23, 2026
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing colla…
July 22, 2026
Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet
In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but the…
July 21, 2026
Dream the Size of Freedom
Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrot…
July 21, 2026
False Idols
False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy (Vernon Press, 2024) examines how modern forms of diversion shape civic life and weaken democratic …
July 18, 2026
Flirting with Evil
It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation (Ap…
July 18, 2026
US 250
This week on Democracy Dialogues, Rachel Beatty Riedl speaks with Peter John Loewen to reflect on the 250th anniversary of US independence. They disc…