Professor John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin make a compelling case that competition between political parties is an essential component of a democracy that is responsive to its citizens and thus able to address their concerns. In the modern era, as party competition in the South has come to be widely regarded as matching that of the North, Aldrich and Friffin explore the question of whether the South is poised to become a one-party system once again with the Republican party now dominant.
Guests: John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. John D. Griffin is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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We talk to George Katsiaficas about the revolutionary times of 1960’s and how the civil movements in different countries and continents were intuitively tied together.
Guest: George Katsiaficas is author of several books including the latest The Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution that he co-authored with Kathleen Cleaver and Carlos Muñoz .
