WORKSHOP: Equality and Electoral Democracy
Paris, November 28-29, 2022
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.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Session 1
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
Session 6
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
Session 2
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
Session 7
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
Session 3
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
Session 8
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
Session 4
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
Session 5
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
Session 10
18:15-19:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Annabelle Lever - Sciences Po
Anne Phillips - London School of Economics
Democracy and the egalitarian promise