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Not Another Politics Podcast — 154 episodes

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1

Why Does America Pay More For Infrastructure?

2

What Binary Questions Get Wrong About Voters

3

Do Dishonest People Self-Select Into Public Service?

4

The Future of Empirical Research in the Age of AI

5

Are Primary Elections Responsible for Polarization in Congress?

6

What Do Politicians Think Motivates Voters?

7

Do Professors Self-Censor On Controversial Topics?

8

Is Partisan Gerrymandering As Bad As You Think?

9

Do Donors Punish Extremist Primary Nominees?

10

The Economic Cost of Populism

11

Is Political Science Research Underpowered?

12

Can Trade Be A Weapon Of Global Power?

13

Should Unelected Judges Be Deciding National Policy?

14

Do Politicians Really Have A Conservative Bias?

15

Do We Understand Members Of The Other Party?

16

MechaHitler and The Political Bias of AI Chatbots

17

Does The Supreme Court Need Term Limits?

18

Are We Really Hopelessly Divided?

19

The Surprising Political Consequences Of Emigration?

20

Is Trump Copying Obama’s Playbook on Universities?

21

Is This the Most Unexpected Voter Turnout Strategy Ever?

22

Should Judges Be Elected Like Politicians?

23

Can Meritocratic Hiring Fix the Bureaucracy?

24

Do Voters Sometimes Support Parties They Actually Disagree With?

25

How Do Political Outsiders Build Loyalty With New Administrations?

26

What Can Political Science Learn from Crypto Governance?

27

Is The "Strong Economy Equals Incumbent Victory" Theory Wrong?

28

What Are The Forces Shaping Polarization in Congress?

29

Do Voters Elect Politicians Just Based On Looks?

30

Are Politicians or The Public More Committed to Democracy?

31

Is Bad Government Driving The Rise of Populism?

32

Why Did Trump Win Again in 2024?

33

Do Democrats and Republicans Agree on What (and Who) to Censor?

34

Do Fraud Claims About The 2020 Presidential Election Stand Up To Scrutiny?

35

What's Behind The Educational Realignment In Voting?

36

Does Election Timing Matter For Turnout And Policy Outcomes?

37

Do Committees Lead To Better-Informed Legislative Voting?

38

Do Presidents Have As Much Power As We Think?

39

Do City Services Move Faster for Affluent and White Neighborhoods?

40

How To "Get Out The Vote"

41

How Powerful Are October Surprises?

42

Does The Public View The Supreme Court As Legitimate In A Post-Dobbs World ?

43

How Good Are We At Spotting Fake News?

44

Is Partisan Animosity Directed At Fellow Citizens Or Elites?

45

Should Policy Match Voters' Preferences?

46

Are Too Many Political Appointments Harming Our Bureaucracy?

47

Should Judges Be Elected or Appointed?

48

Why Women Are Underrepresented in U.S. Politics

49

What Makes A Legislator Effective?

50

Do Conservatives Sabotage The Administrative State?

51

Who Gets Heard On Redistribution, The Rich Or Poor?

52

Can We Believe Political Surveys?

53

Should It Be Illegal Not To Vote?

54

Is There A "Spiral of Silence" On Campus And In Our Politics?

55

The Bargaining Strategies of Extremists

56

Is Gridlock Causing Polarization?

57

Partisan Identities vs Anti-Establishment Orientations

58

LIVE: Does Money Distort Our Politics?

59

Presidential Power, Parties, And The Rise Of The Administrative State

60

Does Social Media Polarize Our Politics?

61

Does Ousting Incumbents Improve The Economy?

62

Do Partisans Really Believe Different Facts?

63

Is Voter Rationality A Test Of A Health Democracy?

64

When Fox Viewers Watch CNN Instead

65

Do White Americans Favor White Politicians?

66

Do Stimulus Checks Buy Votes?

67

Can You Judge A Politician By Their Looks?

68

Can Citizen Appeals Change Government Action?

69

Does Bad Government Breed Populism?

70

Do Political Endorsements Undermine Trust In Science?

71

Do Politicians Spend Money Differently Depending On Its Source?

72

How Does Representation Work?

73

The Polarization Of State Legislatures

74

Are We In A Period Of Global Democratic Decline?

75

Political Brokers In India’s Most Marginalized Communities

76

An Algorithm for Detecting Election Fraud

77

Why The U.S. Isn’t As Polarized As It Seems

78

Why Aren't the Majority Of Voters Getting What They Want?

79

An International Look At Affective Polarization

80

Why Aren't There More Moderate Politicians?

81

LIVE: How Members Of Congress Forge Relationships With Their Voters

82

What Can We Learn About Polarization From The UK?

83

Are Legislators Beating The Market With Insider Information?

84

Do Primaries Cause Polarization?

85

Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation?

86

Do People Automatically Reject Policies Of The Opposite Party?

87

Does The Economy Affect Elections?

88

Best Of: Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting?

89

Did Voter Turnout Drop in Communities of Color After Shelby?

90

Do Local Minimum Wages Represent Local Preferences?

91

Roe & Departure From Precedent In The Supreme Court

92

Revealing New Data On Who Donates To Campaigns

93

Best Of: Fixing the Filibuster

94

Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine

95

What Happens When Fox News Viewers Watch CNN Instead?

96

Does Russian Propaganda Influence Ukrainians?

97

Why Are Cities Hiring Lobbyists?

98

How Concerned Should We Be About Partisan Election Officials?

99

Ukraine, Putin and Credible Deterrence

100

No, Football Games Don’t Affect Elections

101

How Redistribution And Beliefs About Meritocracy Go Hand In Hand

102

How A Single Lie In A Crisis Can Destroy Trust In Government

103

Can More Information On A Bill Change Votes?

104

A Better Way To Think About Polarization?

105

Best Of: How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality

106

Are Most Voters Moderates?

107

Are Irrational Voters A Threat To Democracy?

108

Where Are All The Moderate Politicians?

109

Are Americans “Politically Sophisticated”?

110

Do Lockdowns Work?

111

Introducing: Entitled

112

Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting?

113

How Much Should We Believe Surveys?

114

Voters and Vaccines: The Politics of Ground Campaigns

115

The Long Term Effects Of Infrastructure Investment

116

Do Americans Want Moderates Or Extremists?

117

Fixing the Filibuster

118

Should The Supreme Court Have Term Limits?

119

Always Be Updating: New Research On Old Topics

120

To Block Or Not To Block: Obstruction In The Senate

121

What the Data Say About Voter ID Laws

122

Why Democrats Should Move To The Suburbs If They Want To Win More Legislative Seats

123

The Institutional Racism Of Land-Use Regulation

124

Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think?

125

Nationalized Elections, The End Of Local News, And Government Accountability

126

A New Theory of Political Scandals

127

The State of Our Democracy, with James Robinson: Just Another Politics Podcast

128

Do Americans Support Democracy As Much As They Say?

129

Best Of: Are We Really Living In Separate Worlds?

130

Do Government Programs Get People More Involved In Politics?

131

Presenting The "Big Brains" Podcast

132

The Politics Of Distraction

133

What Just Happened?

134

Reining In The Supreme Court

135

The Vice Presidential Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast

136

The Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast

137

How To Really “Get Out The Vote”

138

October Surprises and the 2020 Election

139

Discrimination: Why Women Outperform Men in Congress

140

How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality

141

Should We Make It Illegal Not To Vote?

142

Why The Presidency Is Key To Combatting Populism

143

Would A Woman Executive Govern Differently Than Men?

144

Do Protests Affect Elections?

145

Do Politicians Vote With Their Donors When Voters Are Distracted?

146

Does The Media Really Affect Elections?

147

The Surprising New Data On Vote-By-Mail

148

Are Democrats And Republicans Really Living In Separate Worlds?

149

How A Single Demagogue Can Change A Democracy Forever

150

Coronavirus And The Politics of Pandemics

151

Is Polarization Pushing Us To Hate Each Other?

152

Do Extremist Voters Dominate Primary Elections?

153

The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies

154

Do Divisive Primaries Actually Affect General Elections?