Events

How Citizens View Alternatives to Representative Democracy Abstract This talk gives a broad overview of the research conducted within my PhD on how citizens view alternatives to representative democracy at a time of pervasive dissatisfaction with representative institutions. Such alternatives include models that increase the role of experts, models that strengthen citizen involvement through participatory […]

Hyperpolitics Hyperpolitics, or Political Engagement in the New Century  Abstract What do the January 6th invasion of the Capitol and the anti-racist demonstrations of mid-2020 have in common? Both birthed some of the largest protest movements in American history, but also diminished rapidly after their initial, pre-revolutionary peak. This lecture reads the recent political sequence […]

Party-Based Illiberalism in Europe: Why Is Illiberalism Gaining Ground in European Party Systems? Abstract Illiberalism has entered its hype phase, increasingly invoked to describe diverse challenges to democracy. Yet the debate remains fragmented between those who treat it as an ideology—often as elusive as liberalism itself—and those who restrict it to the practices of governing […]

Young men's and women's gender equality attitudes - a Gen Z gender divide? Bio Gefjon Off is a postdoctoral researcher at Hamburg University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a PhD student at Gothenburg University. Her research takes a comparative approach to the study of gender and political behavior. It is published in form of a Cambridge […]