WORKSHOP: Migration, Populism and Ethical Perspectives on Voting
Stockholm, June 29 - July 1, 2022
The REDEM workshop on Migration, Populism and Ethical Perspectives on Voting is devoted to explorations of the electoral ethical perspectives on migration, migration policy and the rise of populist political parties. The workshop will in particular seek to advance our understanding of ethical conflicts facing voters and strategies for resolving them in the context of migration and populism. This includes but is not limited to papers addressing how the left-right dimension and political cleavages in terms of cultural values structure voters judgments, the extent to which democracies provide opportunities to articulate relevant ethical standpoints on migration, how perceptions of biased electoral representation condition judgements on populist parties and agendas, how voter’s judgements on migration and populism is affected by the electoral system and general questions on the ethics of voting in relation to populist candidates and migration policy. In addition, the workshop addresses the electoral ethics of migration and populism in the context of impending threats to the democratic order, including the ethical dilemmas of militant democracy.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Friday, July 1, 2022
Session 4
09:00-10:15 PANEL: Democracy
Panel chair: Jonas Hultin Rosenberg -
Uppsala University
Daniel Weinstock - McGill University
Democratic Arguments for (Moderately)
Undemocratic Political Parties
Chiara Destri - Goethe University Frankfurt
Electoral Democracy and the Duty of Trust
Session 9
09:00-10:30 PANEL: Democratic
backsliding
Panel chair: Alexandru Volacu - University
of Bucharest
Franziska Lara Paulmann - University of
Kassel
A “tragic choice”? - The justified reactions to
anti-immigration backlashes by liberal
democratic states
Andrei Poama, Tom Theuns - University of
Leiden
Civic invitation: Democratic backsliding and
prodemocratic partisanship in the EU
Anthoula Malkopoulou - Uppsala University
Justifying militant democracy
Session 5
10:30-12:00 PANEL 5: Epistemic voting
Panel chair: Toni Gibea - University of
Bucharest
Sofia Wiman - University of Gothenburg
The vices of a bad voter (cancelled)
Sebastian Linares, Gustavo Bodanza -
University of Salamanca/CONICET
(Argentina)
Epistemic voting and aggregation
Session 10
11:00-12:30 PANEL: Populism
Panel chair: Chiara Destri - Goethe
University Frankfurt
Attila Mràz - Sciences Po/CEVIPOF
Populism(s) and the Non-Ideal Ethics of
Voting
Sirus Dehdari - Stockholm University
Emigration and Populism
Session 1
13:00-13:15 WORKSHOP OPENING
Annabelle Lever - Sciences Po/CEVIPOF
Ludvig Beckman - University of Stockholm
13:15-15:00 PANEL: Voting rights of
immigrants
Panel chair: Attila Mràz - Sciences Po/
CEVIPOF
Adelin-Costin Dumitru - University of
Bucharest
Enfranchising refugees in a non-ideal world
Alexandru Volacu - University of
Bucharest
Voting Rights and Migration: A Relational
Account
Jacob Garrett - University of Genova
When Parents Vote: Immigrant Inclusion on
Parent Councils in Primary and Secondary
Schools
Session 6
13:00-14:30 PANEL: Electoral rules and
voting
Panel chair: Dimitrios Efthymiou - Goethe
University Frankfurt
Elena Pupaza - Stockholm University,
Joachim Wehner - London School of
Economics
How does the electoral system condition
voter responses to immigration?
Arina Cocoru - New York University
Abu Dhabi
Conflict-of-interest rules and the duties of
parliamentary members
Toni Gibea - University of Bucharest
Empirically assessing the impact of voting
dilemmas on voters’ attitudes and behavior
Session 2
15:15-15:50 PANEL: Voting rights of
immigrants
(continued)
Dimitrios Efthymiou - Goethe University
Frankfurt
When should EU immigrants get the vote?
15:50-17:00 PANEL: Citizenship and voting
Panel chair: Marcus Carlsen Häggrot -
Goethe University Frankfurt
Camilla Wangmar - Stockholm University
Acting like states: regional citizenship and
democratic inclusion in UK Overseas
Territories
Leonardo Barros da Silva Menezes -
University of Minho
Alienage, the Right to Vote and the
Boundary-Focused Citizenship
Session 7
14:45-16:00 PANEL: Territory and
democracy
Panel chair: Corrado Fumagalli - University
of Genova
Mollie Gerver - King's College London
Immigration control as self-defence
Marcus Carlsen Häggrot - Goethe University
Frankfurt
De-territorialised legislative constituencies:
A conditional defence
Session 3
17:15-18:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator: Ludvig Beckman - Stockholm
University
Valeria Ottonelli - University of Genoa
What the vote can’t do. The problem of the
electoral representation of migrants
Session 8
16:30-18:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator: Annabelle Lever - Sciences Po/
CEVIPOF
David Miller - Oxford University
The resurgence of nationalism