🚨🚨🚨 Deadline is today to apply for our Professorship in International Sustainability. 🚨🚨🚨 **We have a broad reading of the topics being covered by this professorship.** Apply! stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/c...

It's time again for a new episode - episode 6 - of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": If you are not yet following @mwegemann.bsky.social, please hurry to do so!

📆 Hier kommt die Vorschau auf das Programm zur Tagung der @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social zum Thema "Politische Öffentlichkeit" an der @fau.de! (1/5) www.poloeff.de/programm-erl... #poloeff

Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...

Looking forward to these two panels at #ecprgc2025 "The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation" (with @brianmilstein.bsky.social @mpatberg.bsky.social Eva Erman, Silviya Lechner) "Postnational Constitutionalism" (with Carmen Pavel, Francesco Rizzi Brignoli)

Come work with us in Münster @ifpolms.bsky.social CfA: Professorship (W3) in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability"👇

Here is my new article on public political theory in times of emergency. I discuss how democratic underlabourers can practice "emergency underlabouring" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In our introduction, @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social, Oliver Eberl and I distinguish two interpretations of the democratic underlabourer and explain the problems the model is facing in global contexts – above all, the absence of a democratic framework. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Are you interested in public political theory and an adequate role for political theorists who are neither detached experts nor committed activists? "Democratic underlabouring" captures this idea - and we have edited a brand new special issue on this topic 👇

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2

From a workshop in May 2024 that has now resulted in a special issue on *Demokratiewissenschaft* in the journals.sagepub.com/home/ipt, OnlineFirst. Many thanks to @mpatberg.bsky.social , @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social and Oliver Eberl for organizing and editing, @proftonylang.bsky.social for hosting, ..

Reminder that Michael Rosen (Harvard) and I are teaching: Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. July 2025 at the Humboldt University Berlin. No registration fee. If you are interested in attending please enrol by following instructions here. www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...

Publication day! The paper is part of a special issue on the methodological self-understanding of International Political Theory. I argue that the beloved model of the democratic underlabourer, which defines the role of political theory in practical politics, rests on two... doi.org/10.1177/1755...

Théorie Politique: 4 parties, 30 chapitres, 876 pages 📖 @bboudou.bsky.social

This is a great PhD scholarship in Political Theory, with a focus on normative democratic theory and "Citizens' Agenda-Setting" supervised by the excellent Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen @ucph.bsky.social 👇

After the Overlapping Consensus. One-day workshop, Hamburg University next Thursday. All welcome, please register.

Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797

"Is there a future for deliberative democracy? Democratic theory in the age of oligarchs, autocrats, and patriarchs" Public Lecture by @simonechambers.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social 📆 03.06., 18:15 📍 Building Normative Ordnungen Further information: www.normativeorders.net/events/is-th...

Bei ZDF Frontal gab es heute einen Beitrag zu amerikanischen Tech-Konzernen und ihrem Einfluss auf die Demokratie in Europa: www.zdf.de/politik/fron... - ich durfte auch einige O-Töne beisteuern...

Wuhuu, it's time for episode 2 of "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": @luceng.bsky.social with a really cool paper on religiosity and nativism. Highly recommended!

Ich habe für @spiegel.de geschrieben: Es geht um die Rolle der Medien beim Aufstieg der AfD und darum, wie sich der mediale Umgang mit ihr ändern muss, um ihren Erfolg nicht weiter zu befeuern. Wir brauchen etwas, das ich normalisierungsbewussten Journalismus nenne: www.spiegel.de/kultur/wie-d...

Auf dem @verfassungsblog.de veröffentlichen wir erste Ergebnisse aus unserem Projekt zur Verstetigung von Bürgerräten in Deutschland. Mein Beitrag führt grundlegend in die Debatte ein. Folgt der Debatte hier: verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...

Super excited and partying 🎉 that my colleague @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social just published her first paper in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social! 🥳📄 Check out her thread 🧵 to learn more about what strategic litigation is—and how to assess its legitimacy in democracies ⚖️🗳️ #rockstar

In my new article 👇 I look at strategic litigation from the perspective of democratic theory. A short blogpost summarizing the key points is now online at the AJPS Blog. And here is a short thread:

Here it is! For anyone interested in cultural appropriation, or curious about what 2 political philosophers might have to say about Aladdin, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Victoria’s Secret or Kendall Jenner (all listed in the index)

Super happy to welcome @dianebolet.bsky.social as the first guest of our "Understanding Democracy" Speaker Series (Wednesday at 12pm)! More to come. If you are not in Münster but want to join zou can do so via zoom: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"The democratic purpose of social media: empowering civil society" - check out this new blog entry 👇 by @mpatberg.bsky.social on his recent article in the Review of Politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Seems about time to start a series of posts entitled "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": Check out episode 1, @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social's "Strategic Litigation as a Challenge for Deliberative Democracy" - highly recommended!

I am very excited that my article "Strategic Litigation as a Challenge for Deliberative Democracy" is now out in the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gleich beginnt der zweite Tag aber hier erstmal einige Impressionen von Tag1 der #poloeff -Konferenz - es hat viel Spaß gemacht! @unierfurt.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social

@mpatberg.bsky.social wird am Mittwoch im Panel 1: Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit u.a. über das Verhältnis von Zivilgesellschaft und politischem Zentrum sprechen. Mehr Infos zur Tagung: www.poloeff.de #poloeff

Thanks again to all our wonderful workshop participants, it was a real pleasure to have you!! @rbellamy.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social @eliseroumeas.bsky.social @holgerkiik.bsky.social @karstenmause.bsky.social

What is social media's place in democracy? Tragically timely, given that the owner of a key social media platform is now part of the US government. Still, happy to see the article finally published (OA). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The new volume "Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects. Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders" edited by Ayelet Shachar and Seyla Benhabib is now out and open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

📙 It’s actually out: the volume "Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects" edited by Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar! It explores the current conditions of asylum, migration governance and rights/rightlessness at state borders.

Ingeborg Maus war eine der ganz Großen in der Demokratietheorie. Aus ihren Schriften lernt man bis heute so viel über den Gehalt des Rechtsstaats und die Demokratie - und wie sie ausgehöhlt werden.

Hier ist der Nachruf auf Ingeborg Maus (1937-2024) von Peter Niesen www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

Hier ein weiterer Nachruf auf die Frankfurter Demokratietheoretikerin Ingeborg Maus von Oliver Eberl in der taz: taz.de/!6056382/

Boundary problem + Democratic Innovations = Boundary Assembly? My new article @globcon.bsky.social is out today: "Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Vom 19. bis 21. März 2025 findet in Erfurt der erste Teil der Doppeltagung "Politische Öffentlichkeit" der DVPW-Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte statt. Sie beginnt die von der Universität Erfurt und der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=28289

Die Webseite zur spannenden Doppeltagung zu Politischer Öffentlichkeit ist online 👇

Bestimmt noch sehr unvollständig und ziemlich willkürlich zusammengeklickt, aber weil ich Starterpacks so toll finde und viele gerade hier starten. Hier einige Leute mit politische Theoriehintergrund (und überwiegend deutschem Bezug), gerne ergänzen: go.bsky.app/UVYSM7Y

In der neuen @zeit.de gibt es ein Interview, das Elisabeth von Thadden mit mir über „Das Bevölkerungsargument“ geführt hat - das Buch, das im Januar bei @suhrkamp.de erscheint: www.zeit.de/2024/49/dana...

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

This is an excellent book indeed! I'm reading it with students this semester who are finding it useful and accessible. And it does help democratic theorists themselves understand better what they are doing. Thanks for the great review ‪@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social‬

Why is democracy (still) important and how might it be reconfigured in response to contemporary crises? My review of Contemporary Democratic Theory by @simonechambers.bsky.social was published yesterday (of all days). The book is an excellent guide in times of authoritarian threats: rdcu.be/dZoaf

Es ist ... ein Reader! Heute ist "Feministische Epistemologien" erschienen, hrsg. von @katharinahppe.bsky.social und mir. Herzlichen Dank an alle, die uns geholfen haben: mit Anregungen, Korrekturen, Übersetzungen und überhaupt! Mehr Infos unter www.suhrkamp.de/buch/feminis...

🧵on academic journal publishing (in light of the recent controversy in #philsky #PoliTheory): I think we have a choice to make—both individually and, collectively, as an intellectual community. /1

Looking forward to this panel on "Political Legitimacy in Times of Emergency" tomorrow morning at #dvpw2024 in Göttingen. Thank you @aureliabardon.bsky.social for organizing!