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Democracy Chronicles

Jenna Spinelle articles

spinelle jennaJenna Spinelle is the communications specialist for the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State and host of the podcasts When the People Decide and Democracy Works.

Podcast: Democracy As A Way Of Life

by Jenna Spinelle - July 2, 2021

We talk about democracy in the context of politics and institutions, but this week’s guest draws from Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Dewey.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election History, Political Artwork

PODCAST: Discussion On The State Of US Democracy

by Jenna Spinelle - June 16, 2021

State Of US Democracy

It’s our duty as democrats to persevere despite these challenges and push the limits of our imagination about what democracy can and should be.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Voter Access

PODCAST: There Is No “I” In Democracy

by Jenna Spinelle - May 26, 2021

There Is No “I” In Democracy

From economic inequality to racial injustice and political polarization, the deck seems to be stacked against rebuilding America’s social fabric.

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How Democracies Can Win The War On Reality

by Jenna Spinelle - May 21, 2021

The War On Reality

Peter Pomerantsev is one of the people trying to figure out how to make the Internet more democratic and combat disinformation.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Journalism and Free Speech, Russia

Can Pranksters Save Democracy?

by Jenna Spinelle - April 20, 2021

Can Pranksters Save Democracy?

Our guests this week offer a framework for effective nonviolent organizing by trapping authority figures between a rock and a hard place.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Political Comedy

Podcast: Public Schools, Not Government Schools

by Jenna Spinelle - April 13, 2021

Public Schools, Not Government Schools

Our guest this week argues that, much like democracy itself, public education is an ideal that we’ve never quite lived up to.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education, Youth Voting Rights

Podcast: Reforming Criminal Justice From The Inside Out

by Jenna Spinelle - April 6, 2021

Reforming Criminal Justice

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner discusses the promise and peril of institutional reform and how he built a coalition of voters.

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Podcast: Laboratories Of Restricting Democracy

by Jenna Spinelle - March 29, 2021

How Republican legislators are pushing shortened mail-in voting windows, expanded voter ID requirements, and other cumbersome administrative changes.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Voter Access

Podcast: Danielle Allen On Achieving Democracy’s Ideals

by Jenna Spinelle - March 23, 2021

Achieving Democracy’s Ideals

Democracy is in crisis and the only way out of it is to double down on democratic reforms while wrestling with our complicated past.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Minority Voting Rights, Voter Access

Podcast: Citizenship In A Consumer World

by Jenna Spinelle - March 15, 2021

Citizenship In A Consumer World

“The Consumer Citizen” by Ethan Porter generated more discussion among the Democracy Works team than any book we’ve read recently. Tune in to hear why.

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Harnessing The Power Of “We The People” On Independence Day

By Jenna Spinelle July 3, 2022

Democracy does not have a singular definition, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting to me — and undoubtedly to many of you.

Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar

By Steve Schneider June 28, 2022

Full disclosure: I’m a liberal Democrat. So, I won’t be sending in my vote-by-mail ballot for Ron DeSantis in November. Nor will I vote for him in 2024.

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Introducing: When The People Decide

By Jenna Spinelle June 25, 2022

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters

By Jenna Spinelle June 8, 2022

The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.

Can American Democracy Have Nice Things?

By Jenna Spinelle June 7, 2022

Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.

PODCAST: Baby Boomers And American Gerontocracy

By Jenna Spinelle May 23, 2022

Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.

A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

The stakes are too high to cave into Putin’s phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.

On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade

By Peter J. Dellolio May 11, 2022

Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

By Andrew Straw May 5, 2022

Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.

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India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

June 8, 2022

The murder of Sidhu Moose Wala has brought attention to the link between Punjabi music and India’s cross-border criminal networks.

University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

June 4, 2022

Higher education is now seen as a new political cleavage, with level of education increasingly important in describing political attitudes.

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

May 25, 2022

The atmosphere in the interstate polling booth in Sydney’s inner east resembled that of an emergency room waiting for a donor organ.

Kenyan 'Cartooning For Peace' To Draw Africa Towards Democracy

Kenyan ‘Cartooning For Peace’ To Draw Africa Towards Democracy

May 17, 2022

Cartooning is an art that has been playing a major role in illustrating stories in different ways, from health to politics, and even sports.

Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers' Anxiety, Even Online

Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers’ Anxiety, Even Online

May 17, 2022

Organizational leader’s tweets can influence employee anxieties and this effect is more prominent since the rise of COVID-19, study.

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