<p>Dig into democracy’s definitions, duties, debates, and difficulties, with special attention to how democratic governments have worked—or not—around the world and throughout time.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Is Democracy Built to Last?
- 02: Politics and Personal Sacrifice
- 03: Government and the Invention of Law
- 04: The Rise of the Modern State
- 05: States, Nations, and Nationalism
- 06: Why Care about Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau?
- 07: Who Gets to Vote?
- 08: Voters and the Dangers of Too Much Democracy
- 09: Should Presidents or Parliaments Lead?
- 10: The Vote Counter Decides Everything
- 11: Do Political Parties Help or Hurt?
- 12: The Problems with Federalism
- 13: Are Courts and Constitutions Democratic?
- 14: The Controversial Politics of Central Banks
- 15: Who Backs Authoritarians?
- 16: The Dictator’s Playbook
- 17: When States Fail, What Comes Next?
- 18: Partition, Peacekeeping, and Human Crisis
- 19: What Really Causes Wealth and Poverty?
- 20: The Global Fault Lines of Trade
- 21: Is the European Union a Success or Failure?
- 22: When the Balance of Power Breaks Down
- 23: Why It’s So Hard to Work Together
- 24: Gridlock and Democracy
Taught by
Ethan Hollander
