Democracy Sausage: the state and democracy
This week we are returning to the building blocks of politics and democracy, as philosopher Philip Pettit joins Mark Kenny to question assumptions.
How did states form and are they inevitable?
Has globalisation changed our perception of states?
And how do different approaches to democracy influence their politics?
This week on Democracy Sausage, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Philip Pettit, joins Professor Mark Kenny.
Philip Pettit is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy at the ANU and the L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.
Mark Kenny is the Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the University after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times.
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d love to hear your feedback on this series, so send in your questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes to democracysausage@anu.edu.au.
Top image: Parliament house in the distance. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU
You may also like
Democracy Sausage: Two Teals, One Ticket
Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender join Mark and Marija from Parliament House to discuss the launch of Community Strong Australia, the logic (and the irony) behind it, and whether teal voters will buy a party that insists it isn't one.
Democracy Sausage: Broken Britain and the Burnham Moment
Political scientist Pat Leslie joins Mark and Maria to make sense of the collapse of the Starmer government and the rise of Andy Burnham.
Democracy Sausage: Race for the base
With One Nation rising in the polls, Special Correspondent at the Saturday Paper, Jason Koutsoukis joins Mark and Marija to discuss the threats to Labor and the Liberals and what they need to do to arrest the decline in the polls.