

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.
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Mar 8, 2021 • 50min
Academic Freedom and the Rule of Law
Professor Nandini Ramanujam (McGill University) discusses with Oliver Garner the connection between academic freedom and the Rule of Law, contemporary and historical challenges, and prospects for the future.
Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Feb 24, 2021 • 39min
Zeller: Demobilising Far-Right Demonstration Campaigns: Kamikaze Activism
Kasia Krzyżanowska interviews Michael Zeller (Central European University) on the far-right demonstration campaigns and how are demobilized by the counter-activists. We talk also about the last year BLM mobilization, and why demonstrations are still better than the social media campaigns.

Feb 17, 2021 • 49min
Adding Bite to the Member States' Rule of Law Bark?
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Dimitry Kochenov (University of Groningen) on Member State legal action against backsliding Member States to enforce the Rule of Law in the EU.
Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Feb 8, 2021 • 39min
Bard: Rule of Law Conditionality: The Sharpest New Tool in the Box?
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Petra Bard (CEU and Eötvös Loránd University) on the new regime of budget conditionality to enforce the Rule of Law in the European Union.
Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Jan 28, 2021 • 30min
Steinmetz-Jenkins: Liberalism(s) reinvigorated?
Kasia Krzyzanowska interviews Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, a faculty member in History Department at Dartmouth College, on the future of liberalism, especially post-Cold War liberalism as envisioned by American intellectuals.

Jan 18, 2021 • 31min
Samuel Moyn on American democracy after Trump
Samuel Moyn (Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University) in conversation with Kasia Nowicka on the current state of America's democracy on the eve of Joe Biden's presidency.

Jan 5, 2021 • 24min
Alberto Alemanno on the Conference on the Future of Europe
Michal Matlak interviews Professor Alberto Alemanno (HEC, Paris) and the founder of Good Lobby about the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe.