Justin works to create conversations that test listeners assumptions about democratic governance, while offering hope for the success of democratic ideals.
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Justin has spent the past few years studying democracy and political theory. He discusses these ideas alongside academics and thought leaders on the podcast Democracy Paradox. Every week new scholars are invited to share their breakthrough research or bold ideas about politics, economics, and society. He also writes a blog about his ideas on democracy at democracyparadox.com. Justin became interested in politics at the age of twelve when his father ran for office as a third-party candidate for the Libertarian Party. After college, he pursued his passion through work for the Libertarian Party before he became disenchanted with their policies. Today he explores the idea of democracy through a variety of approaches and perspectives. In addition, he offers practical experience through fifteen years work in business and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business.
Justin’s areas of expertise in his field, and topics he discusses regularly on his podcast and in his blog, include democracy and democratization, world affairs and international relations, political theory, and ideologies and political parties. In his podcast, Justin regularly interviews academics and scholars who are also experts in these fields and offer new insights into the ‘democracy paradox’. Scholars might describe democracy as liberal, participatory, direct, militant, elitist, or open. The Democracy Paradox explores these contradictory and paradoxical interpretations of democracy through wide ranging conversations. Justin works to create conversations that test listeners assumptions about democratic governance, while offering hope for the success of democratic ideals.
In his podcast, Justin regularly interviews academics and scholars who are also experts in these fields and offer new insights into the ‘democracy paradox’. Justin tackles big questions uncovering components of the democracy paradox, incorporating academic research, international affairs, and history into his writing.
The Democracy Paradox explores the diverse range of perspectives and insights about democracy through an interview format.
Justin’s articles at democracyparadox.com, cover a wide range of topics that explore areas of his expertise and contradictory and paradoxical interpretations of democracy.
Featured in all of Justin’s writing and episodes is the key question of understanding the democracy paradox, which Justin defines as a wide-ranging theory of democracy.
In a several part series, Justin tackles big questions uncovering components of the democracy paradox, incorporating academic research, international affairs, and history into his writing.
Recent articles have delved into looking at questions of if liberalism unfolds democracy or constrains it, and how to reconcile this debate. Other articles have looked at concepts such as conservative democracy from historical perspectives, and how this ideology interacts with liberalism.
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