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Lecture series on democracy

Posted on 24. March 2020 by Armin Schäfer

In Defense of Democracy In this series of three lectures, I want to assess and explain why there is a crisis of democracy. Following the rise of populist partie...

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When Representation Fails

Posted on 25. March 2019 by Armin Schäfer

Presentation at the Berlin Social Science Center, March 26, 2019 “Wir sind das Volk”, “defending the heartland”, “the pure people” versus “the corrupt elite”—th...

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Democratic backsliding

Posted on 4. March 2019 by Armin Schäfer

There is a growing concern of democratic backsliding. In a recent article in Democratization, Lührmann et al. (2018) use the Varieties of Democracy-dataset to s...

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Review of “The Cash Ceiling”

Posted on 7. January 2019 by Armin Schäfer

In an era of rising income inequality, the long-forgotten concept of ‘social class’ has staged a comeback in public and political science discussions. Neither i...

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Against “Against Democracy” – the twisted logic of elitist reasoning

Posted on 26. July 2018 by Armin Schäfer

The elitist theory of democracy has been staging a comeback recently and it is easy to see why. More Americans than expected voted for Trump, Britons surprising...

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Unequal Responsiveness in Germany

Posted on 12. June 2018 by Armin Schäfer

Empirical studies have shown that US politics is heavily tilted in favor of the better off, as political decisions tend to reflect the preferences of the rich w...

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Short article on Representation

Posted on 1. June 2018 by Armin Schäfer

In January, the MaxPo center in Paris celebrated its fifth anniversary with a two-day workshop. The meeting’s title was “Destabilizing Orders: Understanding the...

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New Job at Münster University

Posted on 21. January 2018 by Armin Schäfer

After three and a half years in Osnabrück, I will change to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität at Münster to take up a position as full professor of “C...

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Blog Entry on the Rise of Populism

Posted on 24. August 2017 by Armin Schäfer

In a new entry to the Democracy Papers on Items I reflect on what populism’s rise in Europe and the United States implies for how we view social class as a basi...

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