Junior Scholar Event: writing session
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Book launch: Direct Democracy Institutions in a Globalized World. The New Democratic Frontier by Raul Magni-Berton and Clara Egger This book titled Direct Democracy Institutions in a Globalized World. The New Democratic Frontier challenges the idea that representative democracy is the pinnacle of political development and redefines its conceptual boundaries. The authors argue that when […]
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Living in an unequal world: Consequences for societies’ social and political vitality by Jolanda Jetten Societal inequality has been found to have pernicious effects reducing mental and physical health and decreasing societal cohesion. However, this work lacks compelling, theory-driven explanations for why inequality has these effects and when and for whom these effects are likely […]
Affective polarisation has received enormous scholarly attention in the last decade. First introduced by the seminal article by Iyengar and colleagues in 2012, the concept of affective polarisation captures the affective distance between political in- and out-groups. While originally applied to the context of the United States, it has long spread across the world, including […]
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Violent Political Conflict by Stathis Kalyvas We study and speak of different forms of political violence, from torture to ethnic conflict, from war to genocide, from crimes against humanity to terrorism, using a profusion of "natural categories” that have emerged organically, are politically charged, and ultimately impede our understanding of this deplorable yet universal form […]
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TITLE TBC by Yasin Koç Bio Yasin Koc holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of Sussex and is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. Recognised as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, he has also held visiting research positions at Princeton University and Université Paris […]
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Book launch: Open Parliaments: The Reality of Public Engagement in European Democracies by Sofia Serra-Silva Democratic institutions are under strain. The bond between citizens and political institutions has significantly frayed, and parliaments, long positioned as the institutional heart of representative democracy, find themselves at the center of this legitimacy crisis. This book asks whether they […]
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