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The Vanderbilt Hustler

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Notes from Nash- Notes from Larry Bartels: Democracy is Tough

Staff Podcaster Farouk Ramzan sits down with Dr. Larry Bartels, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic institutions.
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Larry Bartels is an American political scientist and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Shayne Chair in Public Policy and Social Science here at Vanderbilt University. He has published books such as Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of The New Gilded Age and Democracy for Realists. In our conversation, we discuss how the most wealthy sway public policy and how primary races shape parties.

Host Farouk Ramzan and Prof.Bartels pose for a photo in podcast studio A (Farouk Ramzan)
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Farouk Ramzan
Farouk Ramzan, Staff Podcaster
Farouk Ramzan ('26) is from San Antonio majoring in psychology and economics in the College of Arts & Sciences. In his free time, he fishes, does film photography, writes novels, screenplays, and skeet shoots. He is interested in a vast era of topics ranging from statistical theory to architecture to Russian literature. You can reach him at [email protected].

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