RevDem Podcast

In this interview with Tarunabh Khaitan, we discuss the ongoing crisis of democracy and constitutionalism in India. At the time of conducting the interview, elections are underway in India, with approximately a month left for results to be declared.

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy,

Judith Butler are among the best known and most discussed philosophers, gender scholars, and

Who’s Afraid of Gender has been published by

The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó. Lucie

In the latest RevDem Rule of Law podcast Oliver Garner discusses the substantive and constitutional tensions caused by the Court of Justice of the EU’s internal

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Philipp Lenhard – author of the new book Café Marx. Das

Institut für Sozialforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Frankfurter Schule (Café Marx. The Institute for Social

Philipp Lenhard is a DAAD Professor at the Department of History, the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his PhD and Habilitation at the University of Munich. His research interests include Modern Jewish History; Modern German History;  Intellectual History; Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School; and Comparative European History.

Café Marx. Das Institut für Sozialforschung von den

The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó. Lucie Hunter prepared the recording for publication.

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy,

Joseph Stiglitz is among the best-known economists and public policy analysts in the world. He acted as the senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and

The Road to Freedom. Economics and the Good Society has been published by W. W. Norton.

The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó.

Oliver Garner: You have recently published a working paper for the CEU Democracy Institute on the subversion of judicial legitimacy in Mexico by presidential rhetoric. Could you summarize this phenomenon for our listeners who may not be familiar with the political context in Mexico?

 Azul Aguilar: I wanted to explore how the dynamics of attacks from the President on the judiciary are evolving and what are the causes, conditions, and the timing of these rhetorical attacks. I wanted to explore this because the judiciary is an important institution in presidential and constitutional democracies as it guarantees the separation of powers and checks and balances. I wanted to study this and put it into a research program because, since the

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Angéla Kóczé introduces civil rights icon Ágnes Daróczi, and sketches her paths and the development of her consciousness as a Roma woman; covers the main facets of the movement of Roma emancipation in Hungary and the roles Daróczi has played in them; discusses why the nationality question has been so crucial in Daróczi’s understanding and how her agenda might be placed in

Angéla Kóczé is an Assistant Professor of Romani Studies, Chair of the Romani Studies Program, and Academic

Ágnes Daróczi’s Hosszú az út előttem (The Long Road Before Me), edited by Angéla Kóczé, has been published

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Stefanos Geroulanos – author of The Invention of Prehistory. Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins – sketches the major ways the story of humanity’s emergence has been conceived over the past two and a half centuries; shows how such conceptions can shed light on the history of the modern world; discusses what has made this generative intellectual

Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and a Professor of History at New York University.

The Invention of Prehistory. Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins is published by W.W.

The conversation has been conducted by Ferenc Laczó. The audio recording has been edited by Lucie Hunter.

Are constitutional judges well equipped to deal with fundamental constitutional questions about the EU? Should national constitutional courts aim to address the EU democratic deficit? Several scholars see national constitutional courts as a constructive force in the EU legal order. Nik de Boer argues differently and reasons why is it better to leave certain issues to parliaments rather than constitutional courts?

In this conversation with Kasia Krzyżanowska, Nik de Boer discusses hisrecent book “Judging European Democracy. The Role and Legitimacy of National Constitutional Courts in the EU” (Oxford University Press 2023).

Nik de Boer is Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review and afounding board member of the University of Amsterdam’s platform for Democratic Resilience (DEMRES). His research focuses on constitutional courts, EU constitutional law, central banks and democratic backsliding.

In this conversation with our guest

Phillip Ayoub is a Professor in the Department of