This course covers different answers to the questions of what democracy
is, how it can be justified and what consequences it entails for
political orders, institutions and processes. We will start by reading
and discussing early theories of democracy from the history of political
ideas and then turn towards contemporary conceptions of democracy. We
will get to know, compare and reflect on the different strands of
contemporary democratic theory - liberal, deliberative, republican and
radical. We will discuss forms of representative and participatory
democracy as well as questions of inclusion and exclusion and the
boundaries of democracy and democratic theory. Thus, after getting to
know basic conceptions of democracy, we will discuss current theoretical
and political challenges to democracy in and beyond the state as well
as to democratic theory.
- Dozent/in: Anna Boysen Carnicé
- Dozent/in: Lea Groos
- Dozent/in: Anna Christine Meine