Welcome to the QoG Podcast - a podcast brought yo you by the Quality of Government Institute (QoG), University of Gothenburg. QoG conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions. In this podcast series, we discuss issues of political science in conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments all over the world.
Hosting this show is Victor Lapuente, who is a Senior Lecturer and Professor at the Department of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute.
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Welcome to the QoG Podcast - a podcast brought yo you by the Quality of Government Institute (QoG), University of Gothenburg. QoG conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions. In this podcast series, we discuss issues of political science in conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments all over the world.
Hosting this show is Victor Lapuente, who is a Senior Lecturer and Professor at the Department of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, we have Professor and bestseller author James Robinson guesting us, with whom we will talk about some of the big questions in social sciences: why do some nations fail and others succeed? What is the secret of economic and democratic prosperity? Thanks to the encyclopedic knowledge of James Robinson, we will be travelling through different time periods and geographies searching for the Holy Grail of progress. The message of hope for humankind that Robinson gives us in this podcast, about the balance between the power of Civil society and Government, is both simple and counterintuitive, very old and very fresh.
We hope you enjoy it!
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