Democracy in Question: America at 250

Each year in late June, we impatiently wait for the Supreme Court to hand down decisions on cases with names like Dobbs , Citizens United , and even Trump v. The United States . The nine members of the nation's highest court preside at the top of a pyramid that includes hundreds of federal appellate and district courts, with judges appointed for essentially life terms. Their decisions have an impa...

How do we build trust in elections? There have been widespread election fraud claims after the past two presidential elections despite little to no evidence. In 2022, the Pew Research Center found a party gap in terms of trust in elections. By a significant margin, Democratic voters tended to think that elections "will be administered well," in the upcoming election. And overall, since 2018, Democ...

Is democracy in decline?  In this first episode of  Democracy in Question , host Katie Dunn Tenpas explores a n issue that is on the mind s  of many citizens and scholars alike.  W e've  all  witnessed   numerous  assaults on our democracy,  Tenpas notes,  including mis- and disinformation campaigns, wide ranging skepticism about election outcomes, extreme gerrymandering, and concerns about ballot...

On Democracy in Question, host Katie Dunn Tenpas—a visiting fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Katzmann Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government—interviews expert guests about American politics and the future of democracy. Each episode poses a different question to better understand the contours of our democratic system and what is at stake. Brought to you by the...