In many democracies voter turnout is lower than it’s ever been, especially among young people. Ben wants to know what we can do to get millennials and Gen Z to the polls. Do we need to rethink how we cast a vote? Why aren’t politicians more focused on winning over the next generation of voters? And how can we stop this trend so that political apathy doesn’t become political alienation?

Guests:

Viktor Valgardsson, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Southampton University

John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter at the Financial Times

Jake Grumbach, associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley

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Host: Professor Ben Ansell

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Democracies are made up of people with different views. But when we don’t feel connected, we become polarised. Ben speaks to Noreena Hertz about how loneliness leads to polarisation and then to Wendy Via to find out if opposing worldviews can ever be reconciled.

Guests:

Noreena Hertz, economist and author of ‘The Lonely Century’

Wendy Via, Co-founder and president of the Global Project against Hate and Extremism

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This week, as more of our political institutions are rocked by corruption from partisan forces, Ben wants to know how we can protect the independence of our judiciaries, and what happens when they go wrong. When democratic institutions fail, what does this do to our faith in democracy? And can a compromised judiciary ever be restored?

Guests:

Fida Hammami, Amnesty International's Tunisia Research and Advocacy Advisor

Ben Stanley, Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw and Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex

Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

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Host: Professor Ben Ansell

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Editor: Jasper Corbett

Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil

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