Wow! I just got the news that our PhD student @matthiasrosenthal.bsky.social has won the Democratic Innovation section's Best Paper Award for his paper presented at ECPR GC in Prague. Congratulations and well deserved, Matthias! 🎉 @kaiarzheimer.bsky.social
I'm greatly looking forward to Ian O'Flynn's talk on "Mini-Publics and Political Authority" in our democracy seminar tonight. Come join us if you are in Mainz - 6 pm in GFG 02-601!
How do elected representatives understand democracy and their own role in it?
In a new paper with Leonard Häfner and Lea Stallbaum in German Politics, we present results of a survey conducted among German legislators in state parliaments and the Bundestag in 2022:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our survey, we find German legislators' conceptions of democracy to be largely congruent with institutional reality. On many of our items, agreement between members of different parties was considerable.
Members of the right-wing populist AfD have lower trust in electoral integrity and fellow legislators and are more supportive of direct democracy.
We also published the corresponding dataset:
German Legislator Survey 2022 - Harvard Dataverse
In the eyes of many citizens, democracy fails to meet its promises. In a new paper just published in Res Publica, Armin Schäfer and I argue that deliberative responsiveness constitutes a promise representative democracy can and should fulfill.
Open access link: rdcu.be/dp9lj
