Podcasts · What's Wrong with Democracy?

Episode 1: The world’s biggest democracy goes to the polls

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Episode Episode 1: The world’s biggest democracy goes to the polls

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The world’s biggest democracy is currently in the middle of an election that will take six weeks to play out and involve over a billion people. Ben Ansell takes a closer look at the state of democracy in India, to try to understand what’s happening elsewhere.

Guests:

Dr Pavi Suryanarayan, Assistant professor at the LSE

Daniel Ziblatt, author of How Democracies Die

Mitali Mukherjee, Director of the Reuters institute’s Journalism programme

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Host: Professor Ben Ansell

Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume

Editor: Jasper Corbett

Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil

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