What's Wrong with Democracy‪?‬ Tortoise Media

Over the past 20 years the British public’s trust in politicians has been tested. Ben Ansell explores how trust is playing out in the UK’s upcoming general election. How can you restore trust in democracy?  And is the UK an outlier or part of a wider global movement?   
Guests:  
Sacha Hilhorst, Senior Research Fellow with Commonwealth
Polly Curtis, Chief Executive of Demos 
Richard Wike, Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Centre 
What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by Open Society Foundations. 
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil 


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Another front on the war against democracy is information warfare. Ben Ansell digs into how modern day autocrats are using this. For almost a decade China has been running a media influencing campaign in Africa. Now Russia has taken it mainstream, and digital. But how effective are these disinformation campaigns? What’s the endgame? And how can we build up our defence arsenal? 
Guests:  
James Ball, journalist and author of Post Truth and The Other Pandemic
Emeka Umejei, research associate in the department of media studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
Ben Scott, CEO of Reset Tech 
What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by Open Society Foundations. 
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil


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In Ukraine, democracy is under attack. Ben Ansell investigates what that means for the country’s future. Is the war a death knell or a rallying cry for democracy? What is at stake and how worried should we be about the rise of autocrats?
Guests:  
Olya Onuch, Professor of comparative and Ukrainian politics at the University of Manchester
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, interim President of Freedom House 
What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by Open Society Foundations. 
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil


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The world’s biggest democracy is currently in the middle of an election that will take six weeks to play out and involve over a billion people. Ben Ansell takes a closer look at the state of democracy in India, to try to understand what’s happening elsewhere. 
Guests:  
Dr Pavi Suryanarayan, Assistant professor at the LSE
Daniel Ziblatt, author of How Democracies Die
Mitali Mukherjee, Director of the Reuters institute’s Journalism programme
What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by Open Society Foundations. 
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil

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Introducing: What's Wrong with Democracy?
By the end of this year, countries making up half the world’s population will have held elections. But not all of them will have been free and fair. In ‘What’s Wrong with Democracy?’ Professor Ben Ansell of Oxford University will, with the help of academics, journalists, activists and writers, figure out whether democracy is working and how best to preserve democratic freedoms, equality and rights. 
What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by Open Society Foundations. 
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil

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