On November 3rd, America chooses its next president and in this series of interviews from the MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political landscape of today.
In this, the first episode, Robert I. Rotberg (author of Anticorruption) discusses corruption - what is it? where is it? And is it getting worse? He explains the long history of corruption in the USA, as well as the measures that can be taken to eradicate it. We also explore issues of corruption across the globe, including the Lava Jato case in Brazil, the authoritarian anti-corruption of Rwanda and the ways in which corporate elites shape politics in countries like the US and the UK.
Robert I. Rotberg is President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft, Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness in the Twenty-First Century, Transformative Political Leadership, and numerous other books.
Hosted by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Episode 37 (Dec. '11): Catherine Tumber
Episode 38 (Jan. '12): B. Coleman
Episode 36 (Nov. '11): Leslie Paul Thiele
Episode 35 (Oct. '11): Paul H. Patterson
Episode 44 (Jun. '12): Lee Rainie
Episode 43 (May. '12): Jimmy Maher
Episode 41 (April 2012) Howard Rheingold
Episode 40 (Mar. '12): Christof Koch
Episode 42 (Apr. '12): Michael P. Lynch
Episode 39 (Feb. '12): Steven E. Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal
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