DemocracyNet Podcast
1) Maija Setälä on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
Maija Setälä, Professor of political science at the University of Turku, shares her perspective as both a political theorist and an experimental political scientist on the question of the relation bet...Show More
2) Daniel Kübler on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
Daniel Kübler, Associate Professor for Democracy and Public Governance at the University of Zurich, has a great experience of interdisciplinary research projects – as a researcher and as the dir...Show More
3) Miriam Ronzoni on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
How to make empirical and theoretical research “cross-fertilize”? What can political theorists contribute in interdisciplinary research? And how should they react when their ideas are ‘misused’ in pol...Show More
4) Joseph Carens on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
“The political theory that I write is not intended as an authoritative announcement. It is intended as an invitation to a conversation.” Joseph Carens, Professor of political science at the University...Show More
5) Bonus: Joseph Carens on his academic path
Joseph Carens, Professor of political science at the University of Toronto, told us about his academic path – and we thought we’d share this fascinating story too.
6) David Miller on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
What are the aims of political theory? How should political theorists select their assumptions about real-existing societies? What kind of responsibilities towards the broader public do they have, esp...Show More
7) Michael Neblo on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
What should the relation between political theory and empirical political science research on democracy be like? Should we ‘compromise’ on ideals when we assess the quality of real-existing democracie...Show More
8) Philippe Van Parijs on “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms”
What role do political philosophers have in democratic societies? Can normative theories harm? And how to avoid it? Philippe Van Parijs, Professor at the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics, ac...Show More