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Is American democracy in crisis? | Politics in Question
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Is American democracy in crisis? | Politics in Question

This week, we bring you an episode from the Politics in Question podcast, hosted by Lee Drutman, Julia Azari, and James Wallner.

The Democracy Group · Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, James Wallner

July 17, 20241h 6m

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In this week’s episode of Politics In Question, Jake Grumbach joins Lee and James to consider whether American democracy is in crisis. Grumbach is an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He studies the political economy of the United States, with interests in democratic institutions, labor, federalism, racial and economic inequality, and statistical methods. And he is the author of Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics (Princeton University Press, 2022).

What is the state of American democracy? Are concerns that it is failing overblown? Or are they justified? What is the best standard to evaluate the quality of representation in the United States? How does that standard change based on the different types of democracy? These are some of the questions Jake, Lee, and James ask in this week’s episode.

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