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Publishes	Daily	Episodes	1054	Founded	15 years ago
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Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Political Scientist Seth Masket’s new book, The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders (Cambridge UP, 2026) is a companion book to his earlier work, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020 (Cambridge Un... more

20 Aug 2026 • 49 min

Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet we still lack vital knowledge as to the most effective ways to stabilise and reduce the risk of geno... more

18 Aug 2026 • 1 hr 9 min

Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026)

Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia

(NewSouth, 2026) tells the shocking story of the two British atomic

weapons test series held at Western Australia's Monte Bello Islands in

1952 and 1956. Operation Hur... more

16 Aug 2026 • 1 hr 2 min

Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

(Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. Margulis is the

first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have

intervened to influe... more

15 Aug 2026 • 54 min

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Ramnarayan Rawat

Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

University of Delaware

Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

K. Satyanarayana

Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad)

English and Foreign Languages University

Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

Sanal Mohan

Retired professor, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University

Mahatma Gandhi University

Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

Ka-ming Wu

Professor, New Books author; Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Episode: Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)

Eduardo Albrecht

Political anthropologist; author of Political Automation, An Introduction to AI in Government and Its Impact on Citizens

Mercy University; former senior fellow at UN University's Center for Policy Research

Episode: Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Giulio Boccaletti

Author, The Environmental Republic

Princeton University Press / Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Episode: Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Georgia Kernell

Author of Inside Parties; Associate Professor at UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

Episode: Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Monalisa Adhikari

Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling

University of Stirling

Episode: Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Luca Anceschi

Professor in Eurasian Studies and Department Head of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Episode: Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher

Host of The New Books Network; appears on multiple episodes

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Fine selection of relevant books, concise reviews and well informed discussion of conclusions.
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Jasper Klapwijk
Netherlands3 years ago
Expands your horizons. Interviews of authors. They cover a lot of good books that don't get attention from the more popular podcasts or book reviews.
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4 years ago
John Yoo?
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Concerned Political Scientist
United States6 years ago
Syrian
Big thank you Political Science.
To Blumenthal’s critics:
Keep your dirty petrodollars, your crazed Takfiri radical militants from China, Chechnya, and from all over the world, keep the mountains of media campaigns of deception, cynicism, and lies. Keep those maniac sectarian psychos who deny the river of blood shed at the hands of your “Moderate Rebels.”
But give us “Management of Savagery.”
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A Syrian NoOne
United States6 years ago
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excellent resource for new academic pol-sci books and ideas
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United Kingdom6 years ago

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Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: Why was it important to bring together large-scale quantitative analysis, interviews, and experiments in studying internal party rules?

The multi-method approach allows for causal inference beyond observational data, using experiments to test how rule changes affect membership and combining qualitative interviews with quantitative data to ground theoretical claims in real-world practices.

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Q: What are the major ethical challenges with synthetic populations and AI deliberation, and how can we mitigate them?

Key challenges include who has actual authority, how synthetic agents interact with real populations, and the risk of deliberation drifting away from genuine needs. Mitigations involve clear lines of accountability, ensuring humans plug back into deliberation, and creating regulatory safeguards like transparency and participatory oversight.

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Q: Can you explain the idea of a third house and how it would function in relation to existing legislative structures?

The third house would be a new layer where AI-driven deliberation and synthetic population data inform decision-making, but authority would remain anchored to real humans. The goal is to create a conduit between communities and governance, ensuring that AI tools augment rather than replace human deliberation and accountability.

Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

Q: Can you talk a little bit about how you set up the research for this book across film, television, and literature?

I built a comprehensive spreadsheet from a wide range of sources, starting from a Betty Boop cartoon in 1932 and extending to contemporary texts, using Wikipedia deep dives and category research to categorize and locate depictions, while ensuring the president is actually the US president in most selections and cutting out ambiguous cases.

Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Q: Can you describe what post-liberal conflict management is and what its five core features are?

Post-liberal conflict management is a constellation of practices led by rising powers that emphasizes state-centric engagement, stability and development as pathways to peace, leadership by national or regional actors, normative ambivalence toward liberal principles, and a pragmatic, context-driven approach without a formal, codified policy blueprint.

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This show features in-depth conversations with political science scholars and book authors, focusing on cutting-edge research across subfields like democracy, governance, comparative politics, regional studies, and international law. Episodes spotlight how new scholarly work reframes established ideas—whether about Dalit history, AI governance, infrastructural urbanism in China, environmental politics, or party dynamics—and frequently explore methodological innovations, cross-regional comparisons, and real-world implications for policy and civic life. Notable strengths include a strong emphasis on making scholarly ideas accessible, a clear link between theory and contemporary issues, and a steady stream of conversations with authors commiss... more

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