

RevDem Podcast
Review of Democracy
RevDem Podcast is brought to you by the Review of Democracy, the online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute. The Review of Democracy is dedicated to the reinvigoration, survival, and prosperity of democracies worldwide and to generating innovative cross-regional dialogues. RevDem Podcast offers in-depth conversations in four main areas: rule of law, political economy and inequalities, the history of ideas, and democracy and culture.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 1, 2021 • 41min
Wilkinson: An Authoritarian Liberal Europe?
Oliver Garner interviews Michael Wilkinson on his latest book "Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe" (Oxford University Press 2021)

Sep 23, 2021 • 53min
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on Christian democracy that can counter right-wing populism
Our editor Vilius Kubekas interviews Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, author of the book "What is Christian Democracy. Politics, Religion, Ideology" (Oxford University Press 2020).

Sep 22, 2021 • 57min
Krygier: Institutionalizing and Deinstitutionalizing the Rule of Law
Alexander Lazovic (EUI) interviews Martin Krygier (Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales) on how to understand the rule of law crisis from a teleological perspective

Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 11min
Karolewski: Will the EU survive the rise of democratorships within?
Ferenc Laczo interviews Ireneusz P. Karolewski on the book he co-authored with Claus Leggewie “The Visegrád Connection”on the gradual erosion and steep decline of democracy in the four Visegrád states – Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

Sep 17, 2021 • 44min
Jonathan Holslag on World Politics Since 1989
Our editor Ferenc Laczo interviews Jonathan Hoslag (Free University Brussels) on his book "World Politics Since 1989" (Polity Press).

Sep 16, 2021 • 31min
LaTosha Brown: Culture will eat strategy for breakfast
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo interviews LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter whose work is credited with significant voter registration and get out the vote efforts in several elections, including the 2020-21 state elections in Georgia. In this podcast conversation, LaTosha Brown discusses her motivation to co-launch Black Voters Matter and some of the key activities of her organization; strategies they use to reach marginalized communities; the unprecedented political mobilization in 2020 in the shadow of the pandemic as well as her current plans.

Sep 15, 2021 • 33min
Laurent Pech about Poland and the Court of Justice of the EU
Laurent Pech (Middlesex University) in conversation with Oliver Garner (RevDem Editor) about conflicts between the Polish government and the European institutions.

Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 5min
Talisse: To Be a Democratic Citizen
Katarzyna Krzyżanowska talks with Robert Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, on the epistemology of democracy. The conversation largely draws on Talisse’s recently published book “Sustaining Democracy”.

Sep 10, 2021 • 55min
Konrad Jarausch on Realistic Progress
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo interviewed historian Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his latest book Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative, a rich and finely balanced portrait of contemporary Europe.

Sep 6, 2021 • 49min
Samuel Moyn on the US’ Attempt to Humanise its Imperial Burden
Ferenc Laczo in conversation with Samuel Moyn (Yale University) about his book "Humane. How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War".