Matters of Policy & Politics

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Matters of Policy & Politics

Matters of Policy & Politics is a Hoover Institution podcast devoted to matters of governance and balance of power at home and abroad. It is hosted by Hoover fellow Bill Whalen. As the successor to Hoover’s Area 45 podcast, which focused on Trump-era issues and controversies, Matters of Policy & Politics will examine the direction of federal, state, and local leadership and elections, with an occasional examination of national security and geopolitical concerns, all featuring insightful analysis provided by Hoover Institution scholars and guests. Podcasts will be released weekly, with engaging topics and fellows.

  1. DEC 13

    Now What Do We Do?

    Was America’s crazy quilt of election systems and safeguards formidable or merely fortunate in 2024?

    47 min

  2. NOV 25

    America’s Shifting Latino Vote: Tectonics Trumps All?

    Among the surprise results in this year’s American election: a victorious Donald Trump improving his numbers among Latino voters to a level not seen in 20 years and George W. Bush’s re-election (the only other time this century that the Republican choice won the popular vote). David Leal, a Hoover Institution adjunct senior fellow and University of Texas-Austin professor of government specializing in American demographic changes, discusses why Latino voters turned Trump’s way, how 2024’s inroad impacts the idea of demography as destiny ( i.e., a growing minority population working to the Democrats’ advantage), plus Texas returning to its redder self despite talk of newcomers from other states making the Lone Star State more competitive. Recorded on November 20, 2024.

    52 min

  3. NOV 21

    California Update: The Golden State’s Black-and-Blue Election

    The verdict on California’s November election?

    51 min

  4. NOV 14

    Restoring Confidence in Congress: Will the House Come to Order?

    By most metrics – a 16% job-approval rating, failing to deliver budgets much less conducting itself in a stately manner – the U.S. House of Representatives isn’t living up to the Founding Fathers’ ideals. How to restore the public’s confidence in the ways of Capitol Hill? Brandice Canes-Wrone, the Hoover Institution’s Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow and the founding director of Hoover’s Center for Revitalizing American Institutions, joins former Illinois congressman and Hoover distinguished fellow Daniel Lipinski to discuss Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process – suggested ways to re-empower House members and committees and restore some semblance of the democratic process. Recorded on November 12, 2024.

    55 min

  5. NOV 8

    America Votes – The System Holds

    And so the great election meltdown that was supposed to happen didn’t – across America this week, tens of millions of voters going about their business in a seemingly orderly fashion, with a decisive outcome favoring one presidential candidate and his party.

    49 min

  6. NOV 1

    California Update: Election Eve In The Golden State – The Times (And The L.A. Times) They Are A-Changin’

    What to expect in a California election that shows some prominent big-city incumbents in trouble and an anti-crime ballot measure steamrolling to victory?

    55 min

  7. OCT 29

    Close Encounters Of The Coos County Kind

    How to convince a distrusting section of the American electorate that, contrary to what conspiracy theories claim, elections aren’t rigged, and vote-tallies aren’t manipulated?

    46 min

  8. OCT 15

    “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” of Election Integrity

    Are battleground states better prepared this election cycle than in recent election cycles?

    57 min
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Matters of Policy & Politics is a Hoover Institution podcast devoted to matters of governance and balance of power at home and abroad. It is hosted by Hoover fellow Bill Whalen. As the successor to Hoover’s Area 45 podcast, which focused on Trump-era issues and controversies, Matters of Policy & Politics will examine the direction of federal, state, and local leadership and elections, with an occasional examination of national security and geopolitical concerns, all featuring insightful analysis provided by Hoover Institution scholars and guests. Podcasts will be released weekly, with engaging topics and fellows.

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    Hoover Institution
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2024
  • Episodes
    104
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    © The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University
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