COVID-19 and its Impact on Democracy, with Nate Persily and Larry Diamond

Thank you for tuning in to the World Class podcast from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. We bring expertise on international affairs from Stanford’s campus, straight to you. In this episode, host of World Class and Director of FSI Michael McFaul interviews Nate Persily, a senior fellow at FSI and co-director of the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election, and Larry Diamond, who is also a senior fellow at FSI. They discuss how democracies and autocracies are doing in response to the global COVID-19 crisis, why some democracies are doing better than others, and the potential effects of the pandemic on the U.S. election in November. For more from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, follow: Website: https://fsi.stanford.edu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FSIStanford Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordFSI/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fsi_stanford/ The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is Stanford University's premier research institute for the study of international affairs. Our work informs decision-makers in Washington, Geneva, Beijing and beyond, and our Policy Implementation Lab helps ensure that our research has real-world impact.