Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
David Stasavage is the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University, and author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today, published by Princeton University Press in June 2020.
Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow and author Richard Heinberg interviews David Stasavage, author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today. David summarizes polarization and capacity to deal with crises in democracies and autocracies, discusses the challenge of scale in modern democracies, and shares how past democracies like Athens and the Iroquois Confederacy dealt with polarization.
September 17, 2024
