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Government Transparency and the Freedom of Information – Episode 59 – The Oxford Comment

March 30, 2021The Oxford Comment, The Oxford Commenteurozone crisis, foia, freedom of information, freedom of information eu, government transparency, himanshu jha, right to information, right to information india, The Oxford Comment, vivien schmidtoxfordacademic

Last episode of The Oxford Comment, we talked about Open Access and the importance of the accessibility of academic research for the betterment of society. This episode, we are joined by Himanshu Jha, the author of Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India, and Vivien A. Schmidt, the author of Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone, to discuss government transparency and the flow of information from those in power to the citizens who ultimately give them power.

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Voter Fraud and Election Meddling – Episode 57 – The Oxford Comment

October 27, 2020The Oxford Comment, The Oxford Comment2016 election, 2020 election, accessible elections, caroline tolbert, dov levin, election meddling, election safety, election security, mail in voting, meddling in the ballot box, michael ritter, podcast, The Oxford Comment, vote by mail, voter suppressionoxfordacademic

On this episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with three scholars who specialize in electoral intervention, voter turnout, and voting laws. Caroline Tolbert and Michael Ritter, co-authors of Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote, and Dov Levin, author of Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions, answered our questions about voting and offered solutions for the safety and security of the 2020 US presidential election and elections in the future.

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Robert Whitman – Episode 36 – The Oxford Comment

June 29, 2016The Oxford Comment, The Oxford CommentThe Oxford Commentoxfordacademic

In this episode of the Oxford Comment, the first of a two-part series in conjunction with the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Robert Whitman sits down in our New York office with Benezit Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, and Julie Martin, the director of Experiments in Art and Technology. Inspired by this roundtable conversation, our Multimedia Producer, Sara Levine, reaches out to Shawn Van Every, of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and Emilie Gossiaux, an artist and Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to learn more about their collaborations with Whitman on two of his recent projects, Local Report and Swim.

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