Alice el-Wakil

Assistant Professor @PolsciCph @UCPH_Research @koebenhavns_uni. Political theory, democracy, referendums, democratic innovation, representation.

[European Consortium for Political Research @ECPR]

⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬 @anewq & Daniel KÜBLER
💡 Seeks Papers that address normative or empirical questions about popular vote processes
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec https://t.co/L10jE9kjNu

#Polisky #CallforPapers #democracy

[Department of Political Science, UCPH @PolsciCph]

[PHD DEFENSE]

Rasmus Stenderup will be defending his dissertation:
“Bureaucratic Sludge Audits: An examination of a design-based intervention in Public Administration research and practice”

📅Date: Monday, November 10th
🕑Time: 14:00–17:00
📍Location: CSS 2.0.63, University of Copenhagen

The dissertation explores how public employees experience bureaucratic friction and how design methods, specifically sludge audits, can be used as interventions to identify and reduce burdensome procedures in public administration. Through a conceptual analysis and a case study of Danish jobcentres, Rasmus develops a typology of bureaucratic sludge and tests a design-based approach to foster reflection and innovation in the public sector.

Assessment Committee:
Prof. Lene Holm Pedersen (Chair), University of Copenhagen
Prof. Albert Meijer, Utrecht University
Prof. Jostein Askim, University of Oslo

Supervisors:
Prof. Peter Dahler-Larsen
Assoc. Prof. Mogens Jin Pedersen

All are welcome to attend!

[Department of Political Science, UCPH @PolsciCph]

[PHD DEFENSE]

Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard will be defending his dissertation: "The Interface of Politics: How Social Groups Guide Political Choice"

📅 Date: Friday, November 21
🕑 Time: 14:00–17:00
📍 Location: Room CSS 35.3.13, University of Copenhagen

Assessment Committee:
• Carolin Hjort Rapp, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen (Chair)
• Gabriel Lenz, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Jonathan Polk, Professor, Lund University

Supervisors:
• Frederik Georg Hjorth, Associate Professor (Principal Supervisor)
• Peter Thisted Dinesen, Professor (Co-supervisor)

All are welcome to attend! 👀

🔗 More info here: https://t.co/kEkbhapwFi

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

PhD scholarship to study citizens' agenda-setting in democratic theory @UCPH_Research @PolsciCph - one more week to apply 🙋

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @PolsciCph

Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas

Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ https://t.co/yBcqVzuFWU

#PolTheory #demoinno

[Department of Political Science, UCPH @PolsciCph]

🌟Vi er stolte af at kunne meddele, at Rebecca Adler-Nissen og Christian F. Rostbøll, begge har modtaget den prestigefyldte ERC Advanced Grant af European Research Council (ERC).

Med bevillinger på 2,5 millioner euro, går Christian F. Rostbøll i gang med projektet MoPo.

Projektet Moralizing Politics undersøger, hvordan moral spiller en voksende rolle i moderne politik, fx i cancel culture, klima-shaming og anklager om fake news. Når vi dømmer hinanden som gode eller dårlige mennesker, bliver politik moraliseret.  Hvordan kan moraliserende politik vendes til at styrke demokratiet fremfor at skade det?

Med samme bevilling på 2,5 millioner euro, sætter Rebecca Adler-Nissen sig for projektet: TECHORDER.

TECHORDER udforsker de geopolitiske kampe, der former den nye globale teknologiske verdensorden. National sikkerhed og økonomiske interesser spiller en central rolle, men forskellige forestillinger om fremtiden for AI og kvanteteknologi - både dystopiske og utopiske - er afgørende for internationalt samarbejde og regler.

🌟 Stort tillykke til de to, vi vil følge stærkt med.

🌟 Projekterne går i gang fra starten af 2026

Læs mere om projekterne her: https://t.co/CF6gV03DAI

We are proud to announce that Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Christian F. Rostbøll have both received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

With funding of €2.5 million, Christian F. Rostbøll will embark on the MoPo project.

Moralizing Politics examines how morality plays a growing role in modern politics, for example in cancel culture, climate shaming and accusations of fake news. When we judge each other as good or bad people, politics becomes moralized. How can moralizing politics be transformed to strengthen, rather than threaten, democracy?

With the same €2.5 million grant, Rebecca Adler-Nissen sets her sights on the project: TECHORDER.

TECHORDER explores the geopolitical struggles that shape the new global technological world order. National security and economic interests play a central role, but different conceptions of the future of AI and quantum technology - both dystopian and utopian - are crucial to international cooperation and rules.

🌟 Congratulations to the two, we will be following closely.

🌟 The projects will start from the beginning of 2026

Read more about the projects on this link: https://t.co/CF6gV03DAI

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @PolsciCph

Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas

Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ https://t.co/yBcqVzuFWU

#PolTheory #demoinno

[Nenad Stojanović @StojanovicNenad]

En Suisse, l'idée fut lancée par @anewq, dans @LeTemps en 2017.
En 2019, nous avons réalisé le premier projet #demoscan à Sion. Ensuite dans les cantons GE & AG, et puis à Bellinzone.

Ce "modèle d'Oregon" est désormais semi-institutionnalisé à GE.

https://t.co/mHq0TDtLlP

[Yanina Welp @Welpita]

Populist leaders typically claim to speak 'in the name of the people' but they rarely allow the people to express their opinion independently through institutions of citizen participation.
https://t.co/ngR8ZRIwVp
@drqvortrup @RedPolitologas @ReformasLATAM @GVAGrad_AHDC

[CIS @CIS_ETH_UZH]

Deadline for submission of papers for the next Swiss Political Science Association Annual Meeting to be held in January 2025 in Geneva is the 31st of July: https://t.co/PuedPYXAnb @SVPW_ASSP

[Democracy Research University Stuttgart @Demo_LabS]

Last week, our very own @JVrydagh attended #NOPSA in beautiful Bergen ☀️ He presented the next stage of our project "Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth": a novel setup on how to design future governance with and for citizens in the 21st century 💬✨️

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

Third day was just as great! Many thanks to @JHuttun, @Arildohr, @HyeonSuSeo, @JVrydagh (and others ⬇️) for sharing their inspiring work. And very grateful to the whole group for offering top feedback and for engaging in fruitful discussions on tough questions #NOPSA #dreamteam

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

Super strong start for the first two days of the #NOPSA workshop "Democracy from the perspective of citizens" with insightful discussions and great papers by @BohonosDanielle @AgustinGoenaga @morganlcj @VSanchezMazas @JVrydagh @IngridBrandtJen @Antolw @p_mongrain (& others)

[Alice el-Wakil @anewq]

Super strong start for the first two days of the #NOPSA workshop "Democracy from the perspective of citizens" with insightful discussions and great papers by @BohonosDanielle @AgustinGoenaga @morganlcj @VSanchezMazas @JVrydagh @IngridBrandtJen @Antolw @p_mongrain (& others)

[Zukunftskolleg @zukunftskolleg]

Call for applications for three 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships at the #zukunftskolleg @UniKonstanz open now! Deadline: 2 September 2024, 11:00 am (Konstanz time). More information and link to application platform: https://t.co/pNDbOpuTKG

[Joe Mathews 乔·马修斯 @joemmathews]

Big day-the release of the first in a new annual report on the state of #DirectDemocracy around the world. Thanks to @ClaraEgger1 & @RaulMagniBerton for this great work. So much more to come. https://t.co/4QFMsV1f4n

[Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal]

Hot off the press! 📰

Eva Schmidt @IfPol_WWU @uni_muenster considers the foundational principles of #deliberation and fleshed out epistemic internal exclusion in #deliberative #minipublics using epistemic injustice theory

👉https://t.co/t1eed2GhuU

[Democratic Innovations Research Unit @D_I_R_U]

Want to spend the next three years researching and teaching democratic innovations?

Then come join us as a postdoctoral fellow. Details here: https://t.co/O9vdaQFdvC

Deadline is 30 June.

If you have any questions, then contact Brigitte Geissel at [email protected].

[DelDemUCan @DelDemUCan]

JOB ALERT 📢@OliverEscobar is recruiting a fixed-term research fellow in the political economy of public participation.

Info here:

https://t.co/TC1ldoXVia

CLOSING SOON.

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

*JOB*

3-year Departmental Lectureship (part-time) in Political Theory at Oxford starting autumn 2024. The successful candidate will deliver tutorials and organise Politics teaching at Oriel College. Deadline June 19th.

https://t.co/YEAsHcywlw

[Yale ISPS @ISPSYale]

Here we go! @tpenig and @landemore kick off today's conference on the effects of identities and emotions on deliberative democracy. Join us for the big roundtable discussion at 4 p.m.: https://t.co/tqUn8XHbL1 @backermanyale @devarashida @chrishachen @aweisstweets