Register here Fake news and Asian perspectives: Lessons learned, problems persisting, and emerging threats This presentation reexamines the evolving landscape of misinformation and disinformation, focusing on the Asian region, drawing on insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, and extending into the current period shaped by rapid technological advancements, such as the rise of GenAI. Building on almost a […]
Foes or Fellow Citizens? Perception of Democratic Legitimacy and Political Polarization Bio Rebekka Kesberg is a senior researcher at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She completed her PhD in social psychology at Ulm University (Germany), where she studied how human values shape perception, attitudes, and behavior. Following her PhD, she […]
Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation Abstract Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate within the deliberative democracy community appears to be that, while it is not a bulletproof solution, technology—and more […]
This Seminar is part of our regular Thursday seminar series, which normally take place at Lunchtime on Thursdays. This seminar will, however, exceptionally take place on Thursday afternoon at 15:00 and instead of Lunch we will offer an aperitif afterwards. By registering via the link you will register for the entire Thursday seminar series and […]
Register here Enhancing Quality Electoral Governance for Democratic Consolidation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic Abstract Ghana has made significant progress with democratic governance since returning to multiparty politics in 1992. Since then, competitive election has been the driving force behind its journey to democratic institutionalization. Yet what has obscured scholarly analysis is the grandiose web of […]
Unpacking the Framing of Democracy in EU Institutional Discourses on Disinformation Mitigation Abstract How do European institutions frame democracy in their discourses and policies about disinformation mitigation? Disinformation is often presented by EU institutions as a threat to democracy that must be resolved (Navarro et al., 2025), which has led to the development of multiple intervention strategies. […]
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Register here Political Identity as a Feature of Democracy: Belonging, Rejection, and Absence Political identities are often taken for granted as attachments to parties or ideological camps. Yet citizens differ profoundly in how much politics matters to who they are, in whether they define themselves through belonging or rejection, and in whether politics plays any […]
Are parliaments at risk of becoming irrelevant? Abstract Parliaments have been conceptualised as a core institution of our representative democracies – they are meant to embody the link between public and governance. However, in a context of declining levels of trust, increased polarisation and misinformation, are they increasingly becoming irrelevant in people’s imaginary? Parliaments drive […]
Register here When We Are Not in the Room: Designing Feminist Institutional Change for Resilience and Reactivation Feminist institutionalism has long shown that feminist institutional change is rarely one-shot, given the “genderedness” of organisations/institutions (Benschop & Verloo, 2006), the “nested newness” of reform efforts (Mackay, 2014), and multiple forms of resistance (Tildesley, Lombardo & Verge, 2022). Recent work argues that inclusive reforms tend to follow cycles of repetition through which […]
The unintended consequences of depolarization treatments (in the US) Abstract Many interventions exist for reducing toxic polarization. However, a possibility is that these interventions that aim to help political opponents get along have unintended side effects. For example, they may increase other forms of intolerance, reduce civic engagement, or reduce people’s willingness to confront prejudices or misinformation. We tested these possibilities […]
Register here The international norm of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: Navigating Inequality and Inclusion in Democracies under Pressure Bio Petra Ahrens is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender policies and politics in the European Union and its institutions, gender equality in Germany, gender-sensitive parliaments, and transnational civil society. Alongside […]