The International Conference in ‘Populism and Democracy’ organized by the second module of the research project NCCR DEMOCRACY, ‘Populism in times of Globalization and Mediatization’, hosted a panel discussion titled “Populism: A challenge for democracy, a challenge for research?” on June 28, 2016, in Zurich. Top-researchers in the field of populism studies shared their views on the advancement of research on populism, but also on the role of populism scholars in democratic debates. As this topic is at the center of the upcoming and final event of the events series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms,” and that the advice of Daniele Albertazzi, Frank Esser, Cas Mudde, Matthijs Rooduijn, and Marco…
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“Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms” series officially launched
The events series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms” has now officially started – with a promising start! The opening discussion about the Limits of Democracy took place on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 in the Aula of the University of Zurich. Many of the topics we intend to touch upon in our 2015-2016 project were introduced and debated in a very thoughtful and interesting way by our speakers and moderator – Daniele Caramani, Francis Cheneval, Rosmarie Quadranti, Rudolf Strahm, and Daniel Binswanger. We are very thankful to them for sharing their perspective on this important topic, as well as to the large audience for coming and participating! Those who couldn’t make…
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New event series: “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
We are happy to announce that a new event series on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms” supported by the UZH Graduate Campus will soon by launched for the academic year 2015-2016 by members of DemocracyNet.eu. This series aims at offering young researchers studying democracy a space for interdisciplinary academic discussion while at the same time making academic debates accessible to a wider audience by organising public presentations and discussions focused on current academic and political issues. Schedule Nov. 2015 Feb. 2016 May 2016 Sept. 2016 Events Public event: Podium discussion “Grenzen der Demokratie?” Workshop and public event: “Justice and Democracy: Assessing Political Legitimacy” Workshop and public event: “Contextualizing Democracy: Culture,…