Podcasts about winner take all politics

Professor of Political Science Paul Pierson, discusses his new book Partisan Nation. Co-authored with Eric Schickler, this book explores the roots of America's democratic crisis, highlighting how the mismatch between the Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics has destabilized American democracy. Pierson offers a fresh perspective on contemporary polarization, explaining how it has evolved from past eras and become self-perpetuating. Pierson and Schickler's work dives into the changing dynamics of state parties, interest groups, and media since the 1960s, showing how these shifts have intensified political conflict. They also caution about the vulnerability of the American political system to authoritarian movements, particularly within the contemporary Republican Party. This talk is for anyone seeking to understand the current challenges facing American governance and democracy. Paul Pierson is the John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. He is the author or coauthor of six books, including Winner-Take-All Politics, Let Them Eat Tweets and Politics in Time. Megan Ming Francis is the G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and an Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. Francis specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in criminal punishment, Black political activism, philanthropy, and the post-Civil War South. Buy the Book Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era Third Place Books

Guest: Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Racial Realignment, Investigating the President, and Filibuster. His latest is Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Paul Pierson. Guest: Paul Pierson is the John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Winner-Take-All Politics, Let Them Eat Tweets and Politics in Time.  His latest, Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Eric Schickler. The post Polarization in the US: Past and Present appeared first on KPFA.

Frank begins the show with Steve Kates, aka Dr. Sky, a veteran radio and TV broadcaster and edu-tainer with expertise in astronomy and space for the infinite side of midnight. He's also a podcaster for wabcradio.com they talk about space news, airplane near misses being very common, and much more. After, Frank discusses Tucker Carlson previewing an interview with a man who claims that former President Barack Obama had sex with him in 1999. Then, Frank is joined by Steven Hill is the author of seven books, including 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy and Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics. He is an elections consultant for FairVote, whose op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, The Atlantic and many others.  They talk about political reform. Next, Frank talks about unexplained connections such as knowing someone died before officially finding out. Later, Frank talks about Andrew Lester standing trial for shooting and killing Ralph Yarl, and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Hill is the author of seven books, including 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy and Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics. He is an elections consultant for FairVote, and his other past affiliations include New America, Center for Humane Technology and Berlin Social Science Center. His op-eds, articles and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, The Atlantic and many others. He is editor and a chief contributor to the online magazine DemocracySOS @StevenHill1776 Topic: political reform Website: https://www.steven-hill.com/ Social Media: Tw/X @StevenHill1776 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inez Stepman is a Lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute, a writer for The Federalist and a podcast host.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inez Stepman is a Lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute, a writer for The Federalist and a podcast host.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This seminar presents – and vigorously critiques – a new edited volume, “American Political Economy”, which aims to reorient our understanding of US politics. Democratic erosions and economic inequalities, two of the most pressing political problems of the United States and its rich western peers, can only be understood in light of the economic, geographic, institutional and racial contexts in which politics are contested.SpeakersJacob S. Hackeris Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. A regular media commentator and policy adviser, he is the author or co-author of five books, numerous journal articles, and a wide range of popular writings onAmerican politics and public policy, including the highly influential Winner Take-All Politics (2010). Professor Desmond Kingwho is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of Government at the University of Oxford. He specializes in the study of theAmericanstate in US executive politics, race and politics inAmericanpolitical development, and the financial bases of US politics.Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, and co-author of the Swamp Notes newsletter, which covers the intersection of money, power, and politics in America. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books, including The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017) and Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (2012). Dr. Lucy Barnes is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at UCL. She specialises in the comparative political economy of rich western democracies (including the USA), with particular focus on the interactions of political institutions and individuals' ideas, attitudes, and behaviours, in the politics of economic policy-making.

As Congress struggles to accomplish anything beyond pandemic rescue packages, aware that the only chance the Dems have of retaining power in the ’22 midterms is to actually give the American people some of what they desperately need - here’s my 2011 conversation with JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON, authors of WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class - the best book I know re what went wrong, how DC fed inequality paving the way for Trump and minority rule -  and what we need to fix to save ourselves.

Ron Rivers, the founder and Executive Director of Our Society defines the project as a Free and open election campaign platform and a social movement. Our Society is something for all American citizens but with a focus on younger voters. Our Society is aware of the role technology plays in our everyday lives and is a project that hopes to make it easier for the electorate to cut through the propaganda and connect directly with candidates and the issues. Oursociety.org aims to strike a blow against the power of money in politics. It's a mechanism for voters to educate themselves on the issues, and also serves to empower everyday people to run for office. Nowadays where it can cost tens of thousands of dollars to run for a simple local election, or where the overwhelming majority of lawmakers in the US are either businessmen or lawyers, Our Society seeks to bring power back to the voters. Democracy works best with an informed public. OurSociety.org is about ensuring we have the best democracy possible. From the OurSociety.org website: "Our Purpose is to empower people to engage in their local communities and beyond by removing the financial barriers associated with running for political office." Democracy is about people coming together to discuss all the issues. That's the core of Our Society's mission. OurSociety.org Christian's Interview on Ron's Program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPvWEic5mM Books Mentioned: "Becoming A Candidate" by Jennifer Lawless "Winner Take All Politics" by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson "The Third Industrial Revolution" by Jeremy Rifkin Also mentioned, Professor Roberto Unger Twitter: @PerezPodcast Email: PerezPodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Modernity and Absurdity Please share! As always, we are available on Itunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud and NJRevolutionRadio.com!

On May 7, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow published a story in the New Yorker detailing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s alleged history of sexually and psychologically terrorizing the women he dated. Hours later, Schneiderman stepped down. Schneiderman was only Mayer’s most recent investigation. Over the course of her career, she’s exposed America’s torture programs, the Koch brothers’ takeover of Republican Party politics, the role the reclusive Mercer family had in funding Donald Trump’s rise, the real story of what happened between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, and more. She’s among the greatest investigative reporters of her generation, and I’ve always wondered how she breaks so many huge stories on such a vast range of topics. And so, in this podcast, I asked her. The result is a conversation that not only helps make sense of the moment we’re living in — from #MeToo to how the Kochs tamed the Trump administration to why Gina Haspel is our CIA director — but also acts as a primer on the art and practice of investigative reporting. Enjoy! Recommended books: Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal by Kim Phillips-Fein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Consider this a two-part episode. This week, my 2011 conversation with JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON, authors of WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. Next week, a NEW one w/ NANCY MacLEAN on her book DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS, which reveals the GOP’s strategy of Citizens United, gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. to retain power no matter how unpopular their destructive policies.

Show #110, Hour 2 | Guest: Steven Hill is a writer, lecturer and political professional based in the United States with two decades of experience in politics. He currently is a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation. Mr. Hill is a frequent speaker at academic, government, NGO and business events, speaking on a wide range of topics related to politics, economics, climate change, global complexity, and future trends. Previous books include Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union, 2012 Election Edition, and Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics. | Show Summary: Author Steven Hill dissects today’s capitalism using Uber, AirBNB, and TaskRabbit, among others, in his new book Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism are Screwing American Workers.

After reviewing the main themes of this course, Professor Shiller shares his views about finance from a broader perspective. His first topic, the morality of finance, centers on Peter Unger’s Living High and Letting Die and William Graham Sumner’s What the Social Classes Owe Each Other. Subsequently, he addresses the hopelessness about the world’s future that some see from Malthus’ dismal law from the Essay on the Principle of Population, but contrasts it with a positive outlook on purposes and goals in life. While discussing the endurance and survival of financial contracts, he outlines the cases of Germany after World War I, Iran after the Islamic Revolution, and South Africa after the end of apartheid, in which financial contracts prevailed, but does not fail to mention the cases of Russia after the Russian Revolution and Japan after World War II, in which it has not been the case. After a brief comparison between Mathematical Finance and Behavioral Finance, he elaborates on the interplay between wealth and inequality, building on Jacob Hacker’s and Paul Pearson’s Winner-Take-All Politics, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, and Robert K. Merton concept of the cosmopolitan class. Following this, he emphasizes the democratization of finance as an important future trend and provides examples for this process from his books The Subprime Solution,The New Financial Order and Finance and the Good Society. Professor Shiller concludes the course with advice for finding the right career, highlighting the role of random events, but also the importance of a long-horizon outlook and an orientation towards history in the making. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2011.

Aired 04/17/11 JACOB HACKER the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream and The Divided Welfare State. PAUL PIERSON is Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State? Together they are authors of Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy as well as WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS. http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/jhacker.html http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=24

Mike talks with Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker about his work on economic growth, insecurity, and inequality. Dr. Hacker's books include '[The Great Risk Shift](https://amzn.to/2I5IPYo)', [Winner-Take-All Politics](https://amzn.to/2I7I5lz), and, most recently, '[American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper](https://amzn.to/2I62nMi)'.  Mike and Dr. Hacker discuss what we've forgotten about shared economic growth, why the United States is lagging in so many areas where it once was a world leader, if we're too nostalgic for a past that can't be recreated, the effects technological change and globalization have had on American prosperity, how we can move to a positive-sum economic future, why Donald Trump is an unexpected opportunity for progressives, and lots more. ** Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible.** If you're interested in supporting the show, go to [politicsguys.com/support](http://www.politicsguys.com/support). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy