Democracy and Its Alternatives

E1 . Is Democracy Built to Last?

E2 . Politics and Personal Sacrifice

E3 . Government and the Invention of Law

E4 . The Rise of the Modern State

E5 . States, Nations, and Nationalism

E6 . Why Care about Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau?

E7 . Who Gets to Vote?

E8 . Voters and the Dangers of Too Much Democracy

E9 . Should Presidents or Parliaments Lead?

E10 . The Vote Counter Decides Everything

E11 . Do Political Parties Help or Hurt?

E12 . The Problems With Federalism

E13 . Are Courts and Constitutions Democratic?

E14 . The Controversial Politics of Central Banks

E15 . Who Backs Authoritarians?

E16 . The Dictator's Playbook

E17 . When States Fail, What Comes Next?

E18 . Partition, Peacekeeping, and Human Crisis

E19 . What Really Causes Wealth and Poverty?

E20 . The Global Fault Lines of Trade

E21 . Is the European Union a Success or Failure?

E22 . When the Balance of Power Breaks Down

E23 . Why It's So Hard to Work Together

E24 . Gridlock and Democracy