Badly Behaving Billionaires

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Badly behaving billionaires can spark scandals that help democracy thrive!

Tim and Syma talk to Pepper Culpepper about his new book in which he argues that corporate scandals might just save democracy.

Learn about how political science works, and how misbehaving billionaires can generate a backlash from the public with profound political consequences.

Link to Peppers book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Billionaire-Backlash-Corporate-Scandal-Democracy/dp/1399424106

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Creators and Guests

Syma Khalid
Host
Syma Khalid
Professor of Computational Microbiology at University of Oxford
Tim Coulson
Host
Tim Coulson
Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science
Pepper Culpepper
Guest
Pepper Culpepper
Pepper Dagenhart Culpepper (born October 1, 1968) is an American political scientist. Culpepper obtained a bachelor of arts in political science at Duke University in 1990. He received a Marshall Scholarship, with which he pursued a Master of Letters in political science at Oxford University, graduating in 1992. Culpepper returned to the United States, enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a master of arts and doctorate both in political science. He began teaching at Harvard in 1998 as an assistant professor of public policy, one year before obtaining his Ph.D. Culpepper became an associate professor in 2003. He left Harvard in 2009, for a position at the European University Institute. Culpepper moved to the University of Oxford in 2016, as a professorial fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and professor of politics and public policy. In 2018, Culpepper became a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and was appointed the Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy within the Blavatnik School of Government. Source Wikipedia.
Badly Behaving Billionaires
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