Political Theory and Public Policy
Welcome to
Democracy Seminars 2025
Keynote by Lisa Herzog: Lay people, experts, democrats: From antagonism to partnership
Workshop “Citizen Participation, Lay Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice” from March 19-21, 2025
From 19-21 March 2025, the Institute of Political Science is hosting a workshop on “Citizen Participation, Lay Expertise and Epistemic Injustice”. The workshop is part of the INFLUEX project funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
The full program can be found here.
Please register at frinken@politik.uni-mainz.
APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
At the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia from September 5 to 8, we presented the latest results from our DFG-funded research project in the panel "Conceptions of Democracy among German and American Citizens and Political Elites". A list of the presentations can be found here.
The Theory Department bowls!
The Theory department spent a very entertaining evening bowling on 10 June 2024!
Workshop 'Gender, Class, and Unequal Political Representation' (23.05.2024)
Democracy Seminars
Attention: The lecture of Marcus Llanque has been postponed to the winter semester!
Guest Lecture, April 25, 2024: Prof. Mark Philp (Warwick)
Workshop "Citizen Perspectives on Democracy Aspirations, Evaluations, and Deficits" (21.-22.03.)
Our workshop "Citizen Perspectives on Democracy Aspirations, Evaluations, and Deficits" took place on March 21 and 22.
You can find the program under this link. Information on the DFG-funded project "Conceptions of Democracy among Political Elites and Citizens" can be found here.
