Reading Albert O. Hirschman with Santiago Gerchunoff

Research at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy

In this episode of Research at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, host Yanina Welp and guest Santiago Gerchunoff speak about Santiago’s personal encounter with the Hirchman’s contributions to social sciences and humanities. Santiago Gerchunoff teaches Political Theory at Madrid Carlos III University and specializes in the study of historical mutations in the public sphere He is the editor of the latest Spanish version of The Rhetoric of Reaction; and is preparing a new Spanish edition of Shifting Involvements. Among others, in this talk Santiago dives into the Hirschman’s analysis of the historical problem of the inexpressiveness of the vote and its relationship with the apparent cyclical crises of public action.