Articles by Toralf Stark

June 28, 2022

🦋 How to get to the core of democracy

Toralf Stark

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.

🦋 Democracy is an essentially contested concept

Toralf Stark

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

Toralf Stark

Researcher and Lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen

Toralf holds a PhD in political science from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

His research focuses on concepts of democracy, measuring of meaning and understanding of democracy, political attitudes, political participation and survey-research.

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