Not Another Politics Podcast
With all the noise created by a 24/7 news cycle, it can be hard to really grasp what's going on in politics today. We provide a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories not through opinion and anecdotes, but rigorous scholarship, massive data sets and a deep knowledge of theory. Understand the political science beyond the headlines with Harris School of Public Policy Professors William Howell, Anthony Fowler and Wioletta Dziuda. Our show is part of the University of Chicago Podcast Network.
Is Bad Government Driving The Rise of Populism?
Why Did Trump Win Again in 2024?
Do Democrats and Republicans Agree on What (and Who) to Censor?
Do Fraud Claims About The 2020 Presidential Election Stand Up To Scrutiny?
What's Behind The Educational Realignment In Voting?
Does Election Timing Matter For Turnout And Policy Outcomes?
Do Committees Lead To Better-Informed Legislative Voting?
Do Presidents Have As Much Power As We Think?
Do City Services Move Faster for Affluent and White Neighborhoods?
How To "Get Out The Vote"
How Powerful Are October Surprises?
Does The Public View The Supreme Court As Legitimate In A Post-Dobbs World ?
How Good Are We At Spotting Fake News?
Is Partisan Animosity Directed At Fellow Citizens Or Elites?
Should Policy Match Voters' Preferences?
Are Too Many Political Appointments Harming Our Bureaucracy?
Should Judges Be Elected or Appointed?
Why Women Are Underrepresented in U.S. Politics
What Makes A Legislator Effective?
Do Conservatives Sabotage The Administrative State?
Who Gets Heard On Redistribution, The Rich Or Poor?
Can We Believe Political Surveys?
Should It Be Illegal Not To Vote?
Is There A "Spiral of Silence" On Campus And In Our Politics?
The Bargaining Strategies of Extremists
Is Gridlock Causing Polarization?
Partisan Identities vs Anti-Establishment Orientations
LIVE: Does Money Distort Our Politics?
Presidential Power, Parties, And The Rise Of The Administrative State
Does Social Media Polarize Our Politics?
Is Partisan Gerrymandering As Bad As You Think?
Does Ousting Incumbents Improve The Economy?
Do Partisans Really Believe Different Facts?
Is Voter Rationality A Test Of A Health Democracy?
When Fox Viewers Watch CNN Instead
Do White Americans Favor White Politicians?
Do Stimulus Checks Buy Votes?
Can You Judge A Politician By Their Looks?
Can Citizen Appeals Change Government Action?
Does Bad Government Breed Populism?
Do Political Endorsements Undermine Trust In Science?
Do Politicians Spend Money Differently Depending On Its Source?
How Does Representation Work?
The Polarization Of State Legislatures
Are We In A Period Of Global Democratic Decline?
Political Brokers In India’s Most Marginalized Communities
An Algorithm for Detecting Election Fraud
Why The U.S. Isn’t As Polarized As It Seems
Why Aren't the Majority Of Voters Getting What They Want?
An International Look At Affective Polarization
Why Aren't There More Moderate Politicians?
LIVE: How Members Of Congress Forge Relationships With Their Voters
What Can We Learn About Polarization From The UK?
Are Legislators Beating The Market With Insider Information?
Do Primaries Cause Polarization?
Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation?
Do People Automatically Reject Policies Of The Opposite Party?
Does The Economy Affect Elections?
Best Of: Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting?
Did Voter Turnout Drop in Communities of Color After Shelby?
Do Local Minimum Wages Represent Local Preferences?
Roe & Departure From Precedent In The Supreme Court
Revealing New Data On Who Donates To Campaigns
Best Of: Fixing the Filibuster
Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine
What Happens When Fox News Viewers Watch CNN Instead?
Does Russian Propaganda Influence Ukrainians?
Why Are Cities Hiring Lobbyists?
How Concerned Should We Be About Partisan Election Officials?
Ukraine, Putin and Credible Deterrence
No, Football Games Don’t Affect Elections
How Redistribution And Beliefs About Meritocracy Go Hand In Hand
How A Single Lie In A Crisis Can Destroy Trust In Government
Can More Information On A Bill Change Votes?
A Better Way To Think About Polarization?
Best Of: How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality
Are Most Voters Moderates?
Are Irrational Voters A Threat To Democracy?
Where Are All The Moderate Politicians?
Are Americans “Politically Sophisticated”?
Do Lockdowns Work?
Introducing: Entitled
Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting?
How Much Should We Believe Surveys?
Voters and Vaccines: The Politics of Ground Campaigns
The Long Term Effects Of Infrastructure Investment
Do Americans Want Moderates Or Extremists?
Fixing the Filibuster
Should The Supreme Court Have Term Limits?
Always Be Updating: New Research On Old Topics
To Block Or Not To Block: Obstruction In The Senate
What the Data Say About Voter ID Laws
Why Democrats Should Move To The Suburbs If They Want To Win More Legislative Seats
The Institutional Racism Of Land-Use Regulation
Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think?
Nationalized Elections, The End Of Local News, And Government Accountability
A New Theory of Political Scandals
The State of Our Democracy, with James Robinson: Just Another Politics Podcast
Do Americans Support Democracy As Much As They Say?
Best Of: Are We Really Living In Separate Worlds?
Do Government Programs Get People More Involved In Politics?
Presenting The "Big Brains" Podcast
The Politics Of Distraction
What Just Happened?
Reining In The Supreme Court
The Vice Presidential Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast
The Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast
How To Really “Get Out The Vote”
October Surprises and the 2020 Election
Discrimination: Why Women Outperform Men in Congress
How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality
Should We Make It Illegal Not To Vote?
Why The Presidency Is Key To Combatting Populism
Would A Woman Executive Govern Differently Than Men?
Do Protests Affect Elections?
Do Politicians Vote With Their Donors When Voters Are Distracted?
Does The Media Really Affect Elections?
The Surprising New Data On Vote-By-Mail
Are Democrats And Republicans Really Living In Separate Worlds?
How A Single Demagogue Can Change A Democracy Forever
Coronavirus And The Politics of Pandemics
Is Polarization Pushing Us To Hate Each Other?
Do Extremist Voters Dominate Primary Elections?
The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies