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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
Description: A common argument to explain the ongoing global democratic crisis is that democracy has failed to deliver safe and prosperous lives for its citizens and people are getting disenchanted with it. Thomas Carothers and Brendan Hartnett talk with host Licia Cianetti about why this is in fact not the case. Democracies the world over, they argue, are not being undone by disenchanted citizens but by leaders with predatory political ambitions that use all opportunities to defy constraints to their power.Thomas Carothers is the Harvey V. Fineberg Chair and director of the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program a...