The workshop will focus on issues of equality and electoral democracy that have underpinned the work within the REDEM project. This includes topics such as the consequence for voters of different electoral systems in Europe, the possibilities of combining direct and representative forms of democracy; the challenges of organising elections during Covid; and the impact of immigration and new technologies on voters. A special emphasis will be placed on understanding how elections might be used to reduce, rather than increase, the different forms of inequality that plague our societies, and what it is that distinguishes democratic commitments to the equality of citizens from alternative political ideals.
09:30-11:15 PANEL: Democracy, decisiveness and expertise
Chair: Ludvig Beckman - University of Stockholm
Ian O'Flynn - University of Newcastle
Decisional authority and mini-publics
Corrado Fumagalli - University of Genoa
Democracy or why none of us should have the final say
Maria Paola Ferretti - Goethe University Frankfurt
Disagreement in science and democratic disagreement over science
09:30-11:15 PANEL: Wanting to vote, wanting not to vote
Chair: Silvia Marton - University of Bucharest
Alexandru Volacu - University of Bucharest
Free-riding and compulsory voting
Chiara Destri, Marcus Häggrot - Goethe University Frankfurt
Democratic inclusion and proportional sortition
Helen Coverdale - University College London
Prisoners voting: Rights and responsibilities
11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:15 PANEL: Elections compromise and/or compromising?
Chair: Zoltan Miklosi - Central European University
Sarah Birch - King's College London
Voting for the future: Electoral institutions and the time horizons of
democracy
Elise Rouméas - University of Groningen
Institutionalising compromise?
Theresa Scavenius - Aalborg University & Danish Parliament,
Kari de Pryck - University of Geneva
Democratic climate modeling
11:30-13:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Sarah Birch - King's College London
Rainer Bauböck - European University Institute
Bounded and differentiated equality - electoral democracy in mobile
societies
13:15-14:15 LUNCH
13:00-14:15 LUNCH
14:15-16:00 PANEL: Citizens in the information jungle
Chair: Lluis Nadal de Alsina - Warwick University
Frodo Podschwadek - Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
Knowing how to know in the public sphere: Media competence and
democratic equality
Carlo Burelli - University of Chicago
Resilience over equality - How to justify democracy realistically
Nikolas Kirby - Harvard University
Misinformation, democracy and distrust
14:15-16:00 PANEL: Elections, bureaucracy and the EU
Chair: Valeria Ottonelli- University of Genoa
Sandra Seubert - Goethe-University Frankfurt
Moving beyond the constitutional trauma? A citizen-centered
perspective on the Conference on the Future of Europe
Tom Theuns - University of Leiden
Militant democracy, democratic backsliding and EU disintegration
Philippe van Parijs - Universities of Louvain and Leuven
The pan-European electoral constituency: rationale, variants, progress,
prospects
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-18:00 PANEL: The right to stand and electoral competition
Chair: Eric Kerrouche - Sciences Po/CEVIPOF & French Senate
Attila Mráz, Annabelle Lever - Sciences Po/CEVIPOF
The right to stand for election: A Millian account
Stéphanie Tawa Lama - Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
(France) & Centre de Sciences Humaines (Delhi)
The fluctuations of the right to stand: a study of the “2 child norm” in India
Steven Klein - King's College London
On the egalitarian value of electoral competition
18:00-18:15 BREAK
18:00-18:15 BREAK
18:15-19:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Philippe van Parijs - Universities of Louvain and Leuven
Joshua Cohen - Apple University & UC Berkeley
John Rawls and the fragility of democracy
18:15-19:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Annabelle Lever - Sciences Po
Anne Phillips - London School of Economics
Democracy and the egalitarian promise
The REDEM Workshop on Equality and Electoral Democracy is organised by Sciences Po Paris and its Centre for Research in Political Science (CEVIPOF) and is chaired by Annabelle Lever. The event is scheduled to take place on location in Paris in the Sciences Po campus building located at 27 rue Saint Guillaume, salle Goguel.
Those unable to attend in person will be able to join the event on-line using the Zoom platform. On-line participants will be required to register in order to be able to attend. Participants in each workshop session will be invited to join a closed Zoom meeting via password-protected access. Prior to joining the meeting you will be required to be logged into your Zoom account. Attendees will receive an email with a link and a password for each session. Although participation in a session is possible by opening the Zoom link in a browser, we strongly encourage the download and use of the free Zoom Client for Meetings.
To apply for participation please send an email to the workshop chair, specifying your name, your affiliation and a brief description (2-3 sentences) of your interest in the workshop. On-site participation requests should be sent no later than Monday, November 7, 2022, while on-line participation requests should be sent no later than . Links to the workshop sessions will be emailed to on-line participants on Thursday, November 24, 2022. If you asked to be registered for the workshop and did not receive a confirmation, please contact us as soon as possible.
For any questions about the workshop please contact the workshop organisers.