Here you will find an overview of events and lectures from previous semesters.

Date	Area members / speaker	Lecture title
07.07.2025	Workshop with Fabio Ellger and Berenike Firestone (WZB)	Entstehung und Entwicklung von Demokratiekonzeptionen
25.06.2025	Workshop with Michael Zürn (WZB), Eva Krick and Claudia Landwehr	Politische Epistemologie
15.05.2025	Workshop with Delia Zollinger (Zurich)	Optimism-based or grievance-based support for the new left? How highly educated women professionals perceive their social trajectories in the knowledge society

Date	Division member	Lecture title
09.07.2025	Claudia Landwehr	Demokratische Innovationen für Deliberation und Responsivität
11.06.2025	Eva Krick	Kulturen der Bürgerbeteiligung
23.04.2025	Armin Schäfer/NilsSteiner	Wie Generation, Bildung und Geschlecht das Wahlverhalten prägen

In the summer semester 2025, members of the department also gave lectures in the Political Science Research Lab. Find out more about the research workshop on the institute website!

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
06.02.2025	Kathrin Ackermann	Citizenship Norms in Times of Polarization
16.01.2025	Nayla Fawzi	Entfremdung, Verdrossenheit und Polarisierung aus Sicht von Bevölkerung, Politik und Medien
31.10.2024	Marcus Llanque	Die Bestandteile der heutigen Demokratie nicht-demokratischen Ursprungs

Date	Division member	Lecture title
29.01.2025	Claudia Landwehr	Falsche Konsensannahmen, Populismus und Legitimität
04.12.2024	Sven Hillen/Nils Steiner	Die Wählerschaft des BSW: Positionen im Politikraum und Mobilisierung von Nichtwähler:innen

In the winter semester 2024/25, members of the department also gave lectures in the research workshop. Find out more about the research workshop on the institute website!

19-21.03.2025, organized by Eva Krick and Claudia Landwehr

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
19.03.2025	Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen)	Public Keynote: Lay people, experts, democrats - from antagonism to partnership

21-23.11.2024 at the German-Italian Center for European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni

Date	Division member	Lecture title
22.11.2024	Claudia Landwehr	How can we trust political institutions? Dimensions of conflict over policies and procedures
22.11.2024	Kevin Walz	Pathways to Breakdown Resilience: When Sequences of Accountability halt Democratic Erosion

Date	Speaker	Title
27.06.2024	Anne Küppers (Jena)	Conspiracy Believers' Meanings and Understandings of Democracy
20.06.2024	Magdalena Breyer (Basel)
23.05.2024	Workshop with Daniel Devine (Southampton) and Jessica Smith (Edinburgh)
25.04.2024	Julian Garritzmann (Frankfurt)

Date	Division member	Lecture title
22.05.2024	Claudia Landwehr	Conceptions of democracy among citizens and political elites: the United States and Germany compared

In the summer semester 2024 Claudia Landwehr gave a lecture in the Political Science Research Lab. Find out more about the research workshop on the institute website!

Date	Division member	Lecture title
26.09.2024	Leonard Häfner	People-centered or elite-centered democrats? Legislators' process preferences in the United States and Germany (co-authors: Melody Crowder-Meyer, Claudia Landwehr, Lea Stallbaum)
26.09.2024	Lea Stallbaum	Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment (co-authors: Claudia Landwehr, Christopher Ojeda)

Date	Division member	Lecture title
06.09.2024	Leonard Häfner	Conceptions of Democracy and Styles of Representation
06.09.2024	Lea Stallbaum	Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment (co-authors: Claudia Landwehr, Christopher Ojeda)

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
25.04.2024	Mark Philp (Warwick)	Democracy and just-about-good-enough government

Date	Division member	Lecture title
21.03.2024	Lea Stallbaum	Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey

Click here for the workshop program.

Click here for the program.

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
08.02.2024	Christina Zuber	Policy meets Identity: Why and how research on party competition needs to engage with group appeals
11.01.2024	Lukas Haffert	Even in the Best of Both Worlds, you can't have it all: How German Voters Navigate the Trilemma of Mixed-member Proportionality
14.12.2024	Eva Krick	Bürgerexpertise und Erfahrungswissen in politischen Prozessen
16.11.2023	Ian O'Flynn	Mini-Publics and Political Authority

Date	Division member	Lecture title
30.11.2023	Claudia Landwehr	Conceptions of Democracy in Germany and the United States

Basissem Politische Theorie

Courses in small groups

Basissem Politische Theorie A

Basissem Politische Theorie B

Basissem Politische Theorie C

Basissem Politische Theorie D