IP Reader

Euroculture
Intensive
Programme
2022

26.06 - 01.07.2022

Dissonant Democracy: Utopias, dystopias and backsliding in democratic processes

This year’s IP Reader aims to provide students and tutors with a variety of different media (videos, podcasts, academic articles, popular science journal articles) in order to tackle the topic of Dissonant Democracy. Most of the readings are available in Open Access (following the idea of democratic access to knowledge), although there are a few that are available only through university databases (accessible through your university portals). There is also a small but expandable list of ‘initiatives & projects’ that may get longer as the IP draws nearer, and some extra readings that might help you along the way. We hope you enjoy the reading/listening/watching experiences!

General readings/watchings/listenings

Guérot, Ulrike (2017). The European Republic is under construction. TEDxMünchen, 20.12.2017.

Landemore, Helene (2021). Open Democracy. Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century. Princeton University Press: Introduction + Chapter 1.

Welzel, Christian (2021). “Why The Future is Democratic”, in Journal of Democracy. 32(2): 132–44.

Subtheme 1: Un)Democratic Frameworks, Procedures and Institutions

Applebaum, Anne (2021). “The Oligarchs Who Turn Democracy Into Something Else”, in The Atlantic. June 9, 2021.

Bellamy, Richard. & Kröger, Sandra (2017). ‘A Demoicratic Justification of Differentiated Integration in a Heterogeneous EU’, Journal of European Integration, 39(5): 625-639.

Fossum, John Erik (2021). EU Constitutional Models in 3D: differentiation, dominance and democracy. EU3D Research Papers, No. 15, July 2021.

Zielonka, Jan and Rupnik, Jacques (2020). ‘From Revolution to “Counter-Revolution”: Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years On’, in Europe – Asia Studies. Routledge, 72(6), pp. 1073–1099.

2. (Un)Democratic Identities, Discourses and Public Spheres

Podcast: Science Po Paris CEE General Seminar of the 16th of February 2021 with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti and Chris Bickerton. Authors of Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics (Oxford University Press 2021).

Fraser, Nancy (2007). “Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World” in Theory, Culture & Society, 24(4): 7–30

Graff, Agnieszka & Elżbieta Korolczuk (2021). Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment. London: Routledge. (Open Access)

LaFrance, Adrienne (2021). The Largest Autocracy on Earth. Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

3. (Un)Democratic Mobilisations and Participation

Podcast: The Democratic Paradox. Interview with Elisabeth Perry and Grzegorz Ekiert on State-Mobilized Movements. Based on their book: Ekiert, Grzegorz, Perry, Elizabeth J., and Yan Xiaojun (Eds) (2020). Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements. Cambridge University Press.

De Witte, Melissa (2021). Could deliberative democracy depolarise America? Stanford scholars think so. Stanford news, 04.02.2021

Michels, Ank & Laurens De Graaf (2017). ’Examining citizen participation: local participatory policymaking and democracy revisited’, in Local Government Studies, 43:6, 875-881

Wojciechowska, Marta (2019). ’Participation is Not Enough: An Argument for Emancipation as a Foundation of Participatory Theorising’, in Representation. Journal of Representative Democracy

Podcast: Citizen Lobbyist, The future of digital activism. With Fiorella Lavorgna and Alberto Alemanno met Luis Morago, chief campaigner at Avaaz – the largest citizen platform in the world – and Laura Sullivan, Executive Director at WeMove, the leading pan-EU campaigning organisation.

Some initiatives/projects

Some extra readings

Brubaker, Rogers (2020). “Populism and Nationalism” in Nations and Nationalisms. 26(1).

Cheneval, Francis, Lavenex, Sandra, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2015). ‘Demoi-cracy in the European Union: Principles, Institutions, Policies’, Journal of European Public Policy, 22(1): 1-18.

Cianetti, Licia, Dawson, James & Seán Hanley (2018). Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland, East European Politics, 34:3, 243-256

Hammond, Marit (2021). Democratic innovations after the post-democratic turn: between activation and empowerment, Critical Policy Studies, 15:2, 174-191

Havlík, Vratislav & Vít Hloušek (2021). “Differential Illiberalism: Classifying Illiberal Trends in Central European Party Politics”, in Lorenz, Astrid & Lisa H. Anders (Eds), Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.

Parvin, Phil (2021). The Participatory Paradox: An Egalitarian Critique of Participatory Democracy, Representation. Journal of Representative Democracy, 57:2, 263-285

Podcast: University of Washington, Department of Communication. Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining our Political Future (Yale University Press 2021)