Articles by Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

November 10, 2022

🦋 Making and keeping democracy visible

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

One aim of the sciences of the democracies is to find different ways of making and keeping democracy visible, argues Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach. Practitioners and imaginers of democracies are doing this job. They help to understand and transform the realities of democracies – step by step – for the sake of democracy

June 28, 2022

🦋 How to get to the core of democracy

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

Toralf Stark, Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann and Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach elaborate on their proposal for a global concept of democracy. To do so, they move away from the institutional perspective to identify a normative good of democracy, which they refer to as the singular core principle – political self-efficacy.

November 5, 2021

🦋 Democracy is an essentially contested concept

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

To strengthen democracy, we need new, innovative thinking, write Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann, Toralf Stark and Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach. They propose to identify the core norms underlying a universally valid concept of democracy, opening up dialogue between empirical and theoretical approaches, and linking inductive and deductive methods

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

Researcher, University of Würzburg

Christoph's research focuses on scientific concepts, the concept of democracy, political culture, statehood, political parties and survey research.

He tweets @ChristophMoham1

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