VILLA VIGONI
Democratic participation – a broken promise?Workshop on political inequality and democratic innovations
March 13-17, 2017 | Villa Vigoni (near Milan), Italy
Democratic participation –
a broken promise?
Workshop on political inequality and democratic innovations
Villa Vigoni (near Milan), Italy
March 13–17, 2017
Coordinators: Nancy Bermeo, Claudia Landwehr, Armin Schäfer
Part 1: From Unequal Participation to Unequal Influence?
Tuesday, March 14
14:00 Welcome and Introduction: Claudia Landwehr & Armin Schäfer
14:30 – 16:30
Panel I: A Broken Promise? The Theory and Reality of Political Equality
Panel chair: Nancy Bermeo
Regina Kreide
The Descent of Political Equality
Larry Bartels
Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies
Peter Niesen
Beyond Equality? A Challenge from Interspecies Democracy
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 19:00
Panel II: Unequal Participation – electoral and non-electoral
Panel chair: Thomas Saalfeld
Cathy Cohen
Participatory Politics and Equality in the Digital Age
Hanna Schwander
Inequality and Voter Turnout
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday, March 15
10:00 – 12:00
Panel III: Unequal Representation?
Panel chair: Ron Kassimir
Andrea Campbell
Civic Feedbacks
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Advocacy in Hard Times: Widening Inequalities and Intersectional Representation for Marginalized Groups
Armin Schäfer
Government of the people, by the elite, for the rich. Unequal responsiveness in an unlikely case
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00
Panel IV: Inequality and Polarization
Panel chair: Claudia Landwehr
Sigrid Rossteutscher
Polarization and (unequal) turnout – a comparative perspective
Jan-Werner Müller
On Populism and Polarization
15:00 – 16:00 Coffee break
Part 2: Democratic Aspirations and Innovations
16:00 – 18:00
Panel I: What democracy do we want? Normative conceptions of democracy in democratic theory and public opinion
Panel chair: Nancy Bermeo
Lisa Disch
Realists for Democracy
Claudia Landwehr
Where democrats disagree: citizens’ normative conceptions of democracy
Michael Neblo
Directly Representative Democracy
20:00 Dinner
Thursday, March 16
9:00 – 11:00
Panel II: Potentials of Democratic Innovations, Part 1: deliberative innovations
Panel chair: Armin Schäfer
Katharina Holzinger / Valentin Gold
Personality Traits and Debate Quality
Christopher Karpovitz
Can Enclaves Remediate Social Inequality?
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30
Panel III: Potentials of Democratic Innovations, Part 2: electoral innovations and direct democracy
Panel chair: Thomas Saalfeld
Steffen Ganghof
Political equality and democratic design: The case for “semi-parliamentarism”
Brigitte Geißel
Direct Democracy and Economic Inequality in the World
Alan Renwick
Can We Improve Discourse in Referendum Campaigns?
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30
Panel IV: Who wants democratic innovations? Preferences over democratic decision-making procedures
Panel chair: Claudia Landwehr
Elisabeth Clemens
In Search of Traction: Diverging Political Trajectories in the Era of Late Liberalism
Katherine J. Cramer
The Competence of Others: How Our Perceptions of Others’ Civic Abilities Inhibits Democratic Innovation
Asa von Schoulz
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Conclusions: Nancy Bermeo
17:30 – 18:30 SSRC Working Group Meeting
19:00 Dinner
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