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Is US democracy likely to change with the second Trump presidency? A conversation with Nadia Urbinati
How much and how is US democracy likely to change during the second Trump presidency? What is new compared to 2016? We asked Nadia Urbinati, visiting scholar at the Ciampi Institute and professor of political science at Columbia University, whom we met after a discussion at the same institute in…
Read moreDoug McAdam (Stanford): “Trump is the effect, not the cause of polarization. His support is based on the racial issue, never resolved.”
The US presidential campaign was the umpteenth representation of a divided society and politics that has never been sopolarised. Donald Trump's third candidacy and the tones he used in the last weeks before the vote are a sign of a situationthat is unlikely to return to calm with the vote.…
Read moreA new approach to the history of the EU: Interview with Kiran Klaus Patel
What kind of experiment is the European project? What are its origins and how did it become so important despite the fact that it was one of many international institutions that came into being after the Second World War? The focus of the latest work by historian Kiran Patel, visiting…
Read moreLatin American and European populist right, similarities and differences according to prof. Rovira Kaltwasser
"There has been a lot of discussion and research on the rise of the far-right in Europe and the US. Much less on what happened in Latin America where we thought we were having a total different political landscape. Then Donald Trump's unexpected victory came and someone started watching at…
Read moreKathleen Thelen: Consumers and citizens, the origins of the Amazon economy
Amazon and other Big Tech have revolutionized markets and consumption in just a few years, but, Kathleen Thelen argues, professor of political science at MIT in Boston, they use some practices similar to those of large mail order or supermarket chains. Tactics already used in the early 1900s. Of course,…
Read moreEurope and the commodification of public services – interwiew to Roland Erne
Roland Erne is professor of European Integration & Employment Relations at the University College Dublin School of Business and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Project “Labour Politics & the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (European Unions)” at the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. The results of…
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