BookMarked brings authors into dialogue about recently published work at the forefront of governance, public management, democracy, and civic leadership.
Each episode pairs a scholar or practitioner with a CLEAR interviewer for an accessible discussion of a consequential new book.
The archive covers democratic resilience, presidential transitions, secrecy and transparency, behavioral public policy, international institutions, artificial intelligence, and other questions that connect scholarship to public life.
The relaunch can retain the full archive while establishing a new recording, registration, captioning, and distribution workflow at Georgia State.
Episode descriptions are preserved here while recordings and event links are assessed for migration from USC-hosted systems.
Mapping Behavioral Public Policy
How trust and political context shape nudging and non-nudging policy interventions.
Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat
What comparative evidence reveals about democratic resilience in the face of populist challenges.
We Hold These Truths
Updating the Framers’ vision of American democracy for polarization, the internet, and modern governance.
Roadblocked
The obstacles, institutional constraints, and political turmoil surrounding a modern presidential transition.
Democracy in Darkness
How secrecy and transparency shaped the emergence of representative government.
Generative AI Use Cases in State & Local Governments
A practical conversation about AI applications, governance, ethics, and implementation.
Making International Institutions Work
Why some international institutions perform better than others and how political design shapes results.
Strong nominations address governance, public administration, civic leadership, democracy, technology, institutions, public work, or related questions—and lend themselves to a lively interdisciplinary conversation.
