Daniel Kübler, Associate Professor for Democracy and Public Governance at the University of Zurich, has a great experience of interdisciplinary research projects – as a researcher and as the director of the research project NCCR Democracy and of the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau. In this seventh podcast, he shares his views and advice about interdisciplinary research and about the role of political scientists in democratic societies. This interview was recorded at the University of Zurich on September 12, 2016. It is a contribution to our 2015-2016 events series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms.” Interview and jingle by Alice el-Wakil. Music “Sunday Lovers” by Monday Night Fever.
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Miriam Ronzoni on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
How to make empirical and theoretical research “cross-fertilize”? What can political theorists contribute in interdisciplinary research? And how should they react when their ideas are ‘misused’ in politics? Miriam Ronzoni, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester, accepted to share her views on these and other questions during her stay as Corti Fellow of the Ethics Centre of the University of Zurich. The interview took place at the University of Zurich on April 28, 2016. It is a contribution to our 2015-2016 events series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms.” Interview and jingle by Alice el-Wakil. Music “Sunday Lovers” by Monday Night Fever.
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Joseph Carens on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
“The political theory that I write is not intended as an authoritative announcement. It is intended as an invitation to a conversation.” Joseph Carens, Professor of political science at the University of Toronto, accepted to share his own approach to political theory and his views on the relationship between political theory and empirical political science in our fifth “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms” podcast. This interview took place in parallel to the APSA annual meeting 2016 in Philadelphia, on September 2, 2016. It is a contribution to our 2015-2016 events series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms.” Interview and jingle by Alice el-Wakil. Music “Sunday Lovers” by Monday Night Fever.