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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...