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Not Another Politics Podcast

University of Chicago Podcast Network

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,…

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Does Congress Actually Have Power of the Purse? 2026-08-27 · 63m
Are Easy A’s Too Widespread in Academia? 2026-08-06 · 66m
Do We Understand Members Of The Other Party? 2026-07-17 · 54m
The Economic Cost of Populism 2026-07-02 · 77m
Is Abortion Policy Out Of Step With Public Opinion? 2026-06-11 · 53m
The Political Effects of the Opioid Crisis 2026-05-14 · 65m
Is the Median Justice Running the Supreme Court? 2026-04-24 · 70m
Why Does America Pay More For Infrastructure? 2026-03-26 · 51m
What Binary Questions Get Wrong About Voters 2026-03-12 · 39m
Do Dishonest People Self-Select Into Public Service? 2026-02-19 · 53m
The Future of Empirical Research in the Age of AI 2026-02-06 · 47m
Are Primary Elections Responsible for Polarization in Congress? 2026-01-22 · 38m
What Do Politicians Think Motivates Voters? 2026-01-01 · 55m
Do Professors Self-Censor On Controversial Topics? 2025-12-18 · 59m
Is Partisan Gerrymandering As Bad As You Think? 2025-11-27 · 56m
Do Donors Punish Extremist Primary Nominees? 2025-11-14 · 59m
The Economic Cost of Populism 2025-10-30 · 77m
Is Political Science Research Underpowered? 2025-10-16 · 43m
Can Trade Be A Weapon Of Global Power? 2025-10-02 · 70m
Should Unelected Judges Be Deciding National Policy? 2025-09-12 · 70m
Do Politicians Really Have A Conservative Bias? 2025-08-21 · 54m
Do We Understand Members Of The Other Party? 2025-08-07 · 54m
MechaHitler and The Political Bias of AI Chatbots 2025-07-24 · 57m
Does The Supreme Court Need Term Limits? 2025-07-10 · 42m
Are We Really Hopelessly Divided? 2025-06-27 · 48m
The Surprising Political Consequences Of Emigration? 2025-06-12 · 55m
Is Trump Copying Obama’s Playbook on Universities? 2025-05-28 · 58m
Is This the Most Unexpected Voter Turnout Strategy Ever? 2025-05-08 · 41m
Should Judges Be Elected Like Politicians? 2025-04-25 · 51m
Can Meritocratic Hiring Fix the Bureaucracy? 2025-04-10 · 56m
Why Does America Pay More For Infrastructure? 2025-03-27 · 51m
Do Voters Sometimes Support Parties They Actually Disagree With? 2025-03-13 · 42m
How Do Political Outsiders Build Loyalty With New Administrations? 2025-02-27 · 50m
What Can Political Science Learn from Crypto Governance? 2025-02-13 · 47m
Is The "Strong Economy Equals Incumbent Victory" Theory Wrong? 2025-01-30 · 45m
What Are The Forces Shaping Polarization in Congress? 2025-01-16 · 48m
Do Voters Elect Politicians Just Based On Looks? 2025-01-02 · 44m
What Do Politicians Think Motivates Voters? 2024-12-18 · 55m
Are Politicians or The Public More Committed to Democracy? 2024-12-04 · 52m
Is Bad Government Driving The Rise of Populism? 2024-11-20 · 52m
Why Did Trump Win Again in 2024? 2024-11-08 · 49m
Do Democrats and Republicans Agree on What (and Who) to Censor? 2024-10-23 · 46m
Do Fraud Claims About The 2020 Presidential Election Stand Up To Scrutiny? 2024-10-09 · 50m
What's Behind The Educational Realignment In Voting? 2024-09-25 · 57m
Does Election Timing Matter For Turnout And Policy Outcomes? 2024-08-28 · 43m
Do Committees Lead To Better-Informed Legislative Voting? 2024-08-14 · 38m
Do Presidents Have As Much Power As We Think? 2024-07-24 · 45m
Do City Services Move Faster for Affluent and White Neighborhoods? 2024-07-10 · 47m
How To "Get Out The Vote" 2024-06-26 · 42m
How Powerful Are October Surprises? 2024-06-13 · 36m
Does The Public View The Supreme Court As Legitimate In A Post-Dobbs World ? 2024-05-29 · 44m
How Good Are We At Spotting Fake News? 2024-05-15 · 48m
Is Partisan Animosity Directed At Fellow Citizens Or Elites? 2024-05-01 · 39m
Should Policy Match Voters' Preferences? 2024-04-17 · 43m
Are Too Many Political Appointments Harming Our Bureaucracy? 2024-04-03 · 50m
Should Judges Be Elected or Appointed? 2024-03-20 · 50m
Why Women Are Underrepresented in U.S. Politics 2024-03-06 · 50m
What Makes A Legislator Effective? 2024-02-21 · 44m
Do Conservatives Sabotage The Administrative State? 2024-02-07 · 52m
Who Gets Heard On Redistribution, The Rich Or Poor? 2024-01-24 · 49m
Can We Believe Political Surveys? 2024-01-10 · 46m
Should It Be Illegal Not To Vote? 2023-12-27 · 37m
Is There A "Spiral of Silence" On Campus And In Our Politics? 2023-12-13 · 48m
The Bargaining Strategies of Extremists 2023-11-29 · 50m
Is Gridlock Causing Polarization? 2023-11-15 · 50m
Partisan Identities vs Anti-Establishment Orientations 2023-11-01 · 57m
LIVE: Does Money Distort Our Politics? 2023-10-18 · 48m
Presidential Power, Parties, And The Rise Of The Administrative State 2023-10-04 · 47m
Does Social Media Polarize Our Politics? 2023-09-20 · 59m
Is Partisan Gerrymandering As Bad As You Think? 2023-09-06 · 56m
Does Ousting Incumbents Improve The Economy? 2023-08-23 · 52m
Do Partisans Really Believe Different Facts? 2023-08-09 · 48m
Is Voter Rationality A Test Of A Health Democracy? 2023-07-26 · 48m
When Fox Viewers Watch CNN Instead 2023-07-12 · 50m
Do White Americans Favor White Politicians? 2023-06-21 · 48m
Do Stimulus Checks Buy Votes? 2023-06-07 · 47m
Can You Judge A Politician By Their Looks? 2023-05-24 · 43m
Can Citizen Appeals Change Government Action? 2023-05-10 · 44m
Does Bad Government Breed Populism? 2023-04-26 · 49m
Do Political Endorsements Undermine Trust In Science? 2023-04-12 · 47m
Do Politicians Spend Money Differently Depending On Its Source? 2023-03-30 · 47m
How Does Representation Work? 2023-03-15 · 41m
The Polarization Of State Legislatures 2023-03-01 · 49m
Are We In A Period Of Global Democratic Decline? 2023-02-15 · 50m
Political Brokers In India’s Most Marginalized Communities 2023-02-02 · 50m
An Algorithm for Detecting Election Fraud 2023-01-18 · 37m
Why The U.S. Isn’t As Polarized As It Seems 2023-01-05 · 30m
Why Aren't the Majority Of Voters Getting What They Want? 2022-12-21 · 46m
An International Look At Affective Polarization 2022-12-07 · 45m
Why Aren't There More Moderate Politicians? 2022-11-23 · 45m
LIVE: How Members Of Congress Forge Relationships With Their Voters 2022-11-09 · 37m
What Can We Learn About Polarization From The UK? 2022-10-26 · 48m
Are Legislators Beating The Market With Insider Information? 2022-10-12 · 50m
Do Primaries Cause Polarization? 2022-09-28 · 49m
Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation? 2022-09-14 · 52m
Do People Automatically Reject Policies Of The Opposite Party? 2022-08-31 · 47m
Does The Economy Affect Elections? 2022-08-17 · 42m
Best Of: Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting? 2022-08-03 · 48m
Did Voter Turnout Drop in Communities of Color After Shelby? 2022-07-20 · 40m
Do Local Minimum Wages Represent Local Preferences? 2022-07-06 · 51m
Roe & Departure From Precedent In The Supreme Court 2022-06-22 · 57m
Revealing New Data On Who Donates To Campaigns 2022-06-08 · 50m
Best Of: Fixing the Filibuster 2022-05-25 · 47m
Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine 2022-05-11 · 43m
What Happens When Fox News Viewers Watch CNN Instead? 2022-04-27 · 49m
Does Russian Propaganda Influence Ukrainians? 2022-04-13 · 49m
Why Are Cities Hiring Lobbyists? 2022-03-30 · 43m
How Concerned Should We Be About Partisan Election Officials? 2022-03-16 · 43m
Ukraine, Putin and Credible Deterrence 2022-03-02 · 45m
No, Football Games Don’t Affect Elections 2022-02-16 · 42m
How Redistribution And Beliefs About Meritocracy Go Hand In Hand 2022-02-02 · 42m
How A Single Lie In A Crisis Can Destroy Trust In Government 2022-01-19 · 47m
Can More Information On A Bill Change Votes? 2022-01-05 · 45m
A Better Way To Think About Polarization? 2021-12-15 · 47m
Best Of: How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality 2021-12-01 · 48m
Are Most Voters Moderates? 2021-11-17 · 43m
Are Irrational Voters A Threat To Democracy? 2021-11-03 · 47m
Where Are All The Moderate Politicians? 2021-10-20 · 44m
Are Americans “Politically Sophisticated”? 2021-10-06 · 34m
Do Lockdowns Work? 2021-09-23 · 47m
Introducing: Entitled 2021-09-08 · 42m
Does Ranked Choice Reduce Strategic Voting? 2021-08-25 · 47m
How Much Should We Believe Surveys? 2021-08-11 · 46m
Voters and Vaccines: The Politics of Ground Campaigns 2021-07-28 · 48m
The Long Term Effects Of Infrastructure Investment 2021-07-14 · 50m
Do Americans Want Moderates Or Extremists? 2021-06-30 · 41m
Fixing the Filibuster 2021-06-16 · 46m
Should The Supreme Court Have Term Limits? 2021-06-02 · 42m
Always Be Updating: New Research On Old Topics 2021-05-19 · 41m
To Block Or Not To Block: Obstruction In The Senate 2021-05-05 · 46m
What the Data Say About Voter ID Laws 2021-04-21 · 41m
Why Democrats Should Move To The Suburbs If They Want To Win More Legislative Seats 2021-04-07 · 45m
The Institutional Racism Of Land-Use Regulation 2021-03-24 · 41m
Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think? 2021-03-10 · 44m
Nationalized Elections, The End Of Local News, And Government Accountability 2021-02-24 · 47m
A New Theory of Political Scandals 2021-02-10 · 35m
The State of Our Democracy, with James Robinson: Just Another Politics Podcast 2021-01-27 · 35m
Do Americans Support Democracy As Much As They Say? 2021-01-13 · 54m
Best Of: Are We Really Living In Separate Worlds? 2020-12-30 · 38m
Do Government Programs Get People More Involved In Politics? 2020-12-16 · 44m
Presenting The "Big Brains" Podcast 2020-12-02 · 29m
The Politics Of Distraction 2020-11-18 · 44m
What Just Happened? 2020-11-09 · 42m
Reining In The Supreme Court 2020-10-21 · 38m
The Vice Presidential Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast 2020-10-12 · 37m
The Debate: Just Another Politics Podcast 2020-10-05 · 29m
How To Really “Get Out The Vote” 2020-09-23 · 44m
October Surprises and the 2020 Election 2020-09-09 · 43m
Discrimination: Why Women Outperform Men in Congress 2020-08-26 · 47m
How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality 2020-08-12 · 48m
Should We Make It Illegal Not To Vote? 2020-07-29 · 37m
Why The Presidency Is Key To Combatting Populism 2020-07-15 · 39m
Would A Woman Executive Govern Differently Than Men? 2020-07-01 · 28m
Do Protests Affect Elections? 2020-06-17 · 35m
Do Politicians Vote With Their Donors When Voters Are Distracted? 2020-06-03 · 33m
Does The Media Really Affect Elections? 2020-05-20 · 34m
The Surprising New Data On Vote-By-Mail 2020-05-06 · 42m
Are Democrats And Republicans Really Living In Separate Worlds? 2020-04-22 · 38m
How A Single Demagogue Can Change A Democracy Forever 2020-04-08 · 36m
Coronavirus And The Politics of Pandemics 2020-03-25 · 38m
Is Polarization Pushing Us To Hate Each Other? 2020-03-11 · 28m
Do Extremist Voters Dominate Primary Elections? 2020-02-26 · 28m
The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies 2020-02-12 · 28m
Do Divisive Primaries Actually Affect General Elections? 2020-01-24 · 26m
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