The QoG Podcast

Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world. Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he is joined by Akshay Mangla Associate Professor in International...

Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world.   Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode he is joined by Mattias vom Hau, a sociologist by training c...

Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world. Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode he is joined by Jenifer L. Selin, Attorney Advisor at the Administr...

Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg.  In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world. Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he is joined by Simon Hix who currently holds the Stein Rokk...

Welcome to the QoG podcast - a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg.  In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world.  Hosting this show is professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he is joined by Matia Vannoni, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy...

Hosting this show is professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he will talk to Cathrine de Vries. Cathrine is the Dean of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at  Bocconi University .  In her work, Cathrine examines some of the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as Euroscepticism, political fragmentation, migration and corruption. And in th...

Hosting this show is professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he is joined by Giovanni Capoccia , Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.  Victor and Giovanni will discuss how democracies respond to extremism in European and US politics. For example, how we should understand the relationship between Putin...

In this episode, Victor will talk to Francis Fukuyama - A professor at Stanford University, political scientist, political economist, and writer who might be most known for his book: The end of History and the Last Man, published in 1992. He has inspired both academics and practitioners all over the world. And since that book, no important world event has been untouched by the...

Guesting this episode is Tomila Lankina, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and one of the greatest experts on current Russia, thanks to her knowledge of Russian History.  Tomila has worked on democracy and authoritarianism. Mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regime change in Russia and other countries;...

In this episode, Professor Deirdre McCloskey guests us to talk about a question McCloskey has devoted a great deal of her work: Why some nations are Successful and others Fail. McCloskey will explain to us her answer, which may not be the most convincing for many, but that definitely is the most beautiful and romantic: economic development is not the result of the accumulation of capital, or...

In this episode, we have Professor and bestseller author James Robinson guesting us, with whom we will talk about some of the big questions in social sciences: why do some nations fail and others succeed? What is the secret of economic and democratic prosperity? Thanks to the encyclopedic knowledge of James Robinson, we will be travelling through different time periods and geographies searching fo...

In this episode, Professor and influential public intellectual Sheri Berman talks with host Victor Lapuente about the challenges of current-day democracies. Both in comparison and in contrast to, the fall of liberal regimes and the ascent of totalitarian systems in the 1930s - what are the similarities, and what are the differences? Berman will provide us with many interesting insights to grasp th...