Articles by Simon Bein

March 21, 2024

🦋 What identity does democracy need? The necessity and danger of political polarisation

Simon Bein

Simon Bein postulates a new perspective on the multiplicity of understandings of democracy and political identities in democratic societies. He argues that democracies which recognise and balance competing political identities are less polarised

Simon Bein

Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Regensburg

Simon holds a PhD in political science from Regensburg University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher there at the Chair of Comparative Politics (Focus on Western Europe).

His main research interests are identity conflicts and polarisation, political culture, empirical and comparative studies on democracy, democratic quality and the crisis of democracy, and political parties.

Simon's work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including the German Journal of Comparative Politics and the German Political Science Quarterly.

Identity and Democracy: Polarisation and Balance in the Conflict between Liberalism and Republicanism
Springer VS, 2023 (German edition)

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