Ep. 145: A conversation with Leo Arriola, Lise Rakner, and Nic van de Walle about democratic backsliding

<p>&quot;Breaking Bad: Understanding the Backlash against Democracy in Africa&quot; is a collaborative project that takes a multi-method approach to studying democracy. In this episode, we speak with project members Lise Rakner (University of Bergen), Leonardo Arriola (University of California, Berkeley), and Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University) about their upcoming edited volume and what we should know about the state of democracy in Africa.<br/><br/>In the news wrap, Rachel recommends a new book from Mariana Candido and talks about why <em>Roe v. Wade </em>matters to Africans. <em> </em><br/><br/><b>Books, Links, &amp; Articles</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/leonardo-r-arriola'>Leonardo Arriola</a>, University of California, Berkeley</li><li><a href='https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Lise.Rakner'>Lise Rakner</a>, University of Bergen</li><li><a href='https://government.cornell.edu/nicolas-van-de-walle'>Nicolas van de Walle</a>, Cornell University</li><li><a href='https://www.democraticbacklash.com/'>Breaking Bad: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa</a> project</li><li>&quot;<a href='https://www.cmi.no/publications/6518-breaking-bad-understanding-backlash-against'>Breaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa</a>&quot; by Lise Rakner</li><li><a href='https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691203003/until-we-have-won-our-liberty'><em>Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid</em></a><em> </em>by Evan Lieberman</li><li><a href='https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/roadblock-politics/458E5700B34DE05183AFD4C794357C18'><em>Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa</em></a> by Peer Schouten</li><li><a href='https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161105/paradoxes-of-liberal-democracy'><em>Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe and the Danish Cartoon Crisis</em></a><em> </em>by Michael Bang Petersen, Paul Sniderman, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager</li><li><a href='http