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In the last episode of the Comparative Democracy Takeover our guest host Hanna Pfeifer speaks with Gunther Hellmann, Professor at the Chair of Political Science and German/European Foreign Policy at Goethe University about the relation between democracy and foreign policy.

Check out the on-going DFG research project, lead by Hanna Pfeifer and Anna Geis (HSU Hamburg):
www.citizens-in-foreign-policy.com/,

and the literature to this episode:

• Hellmann, Gunther, Daniel Jacobi, and Ursula Stark Urrestarazu. „Früher, entschiedener und substantieller“? Die neue Debatte Über Deutschlands Außenpolitik. (Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 8, no. S1). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2015.
• Hellmann, Gunther, Wolfgang Wagner, and Rainer Baumann. Deutsche Außenpolitik. Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2014.
• Opitz, Christian, Hanna Pfeifer, and Anna Geis. “Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level. Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy.” Foreign Policy Analysis 18, no. 1 (2022): 1-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orab033.
• Pfeifer, Hanna, Christian Opitz, and Anna Geis. “Deliberating Foreign Policy. Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany.” German Politics 30, no. 4 (2021): 485-502. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2020.1786058.

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Are democracies more equal than autocracies? What does inequality mean? Julian Garritzmann and Marius Busemeyer talk in this episode about this questions and the complicated relationship between inequality and democracy .

Check out the literature and interesting links mentioned during the episode:

• Politics of Inequality Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/)
• The Cluster’s Inequality Barometer (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/topics/the-inequality-barometer/)
• Wilkinson/Pickett: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Spirit_Level/WJbtCAAAQBAJ?hl=de)
• Hacker/Pierson: Winner Take All Politics (https://www.google.de/books/edition/Winner_Take_All_Politics/Pjofa9Z1ProC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=hacker+pierson+winner+take+all&printsec=frontcover)
• Garritzmann: Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-29913-6)
• Busemeyer/Tober: European integration and the political economy of inequality (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1465116515591832?casa_token=yx8aOs_yMWYAAAAA:Xti1gHxyPYzANmxtal0csUwKq-2_dKNPL0M0Tc8ew66nSyKd-eKo_OHlEb-n2qso4hGfvx7HT4wy)
• Schakel/Burgoon/Hakhverdian: Real but unequal representation in Welfare State Reform (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0032329219897984)
• Busemeyer/Garritzmann/Neimanns: A loud but noisy signal? Public opinion and education reform in Western Europe (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/loud-but-noisy-signal/2BE73266F8A69275E7D14FA784B7FFC0)
• Carles Boix: Democracy and Redistribution (https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=2_nYWobBKlQC&oi=fnd&pg=PP10&dq=carles+boix+democracy+and+redistribution&ots=BLVGkHl0eT&sig=0Tc_P4Xb11kSwjcK-dWv9h19Jps#v=onepage&q=carles%20boix%20democracy%20and%20redistribution&f=false)
• Dahl: Polyarchy (https://www.google.de/books/edition/Polyarchy/LRG7ngEACAAJ?hl=de)
• Anna Krämling’s research:https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/50696318/Anna_Krämling
• Lea Elsässer’s research:https://vergleich.politik.uni-mainz.de/dr-lea-elsaesser/
• Susanne Garritzmann’s research:https://sites.google.com/view/sgarritzmann/

Also check this nice tool on perception of inequality by the OECD:https://www.compareyourincome.org

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How can we measure democracy? In the first episode of the Comparative Democracy Takeover our guest host Rikki Dean deals with this question and talks to Carl Knutsen und Brigitte Geißel about the conceptualisation of democracy.

If you would like to learn more about the work of Carl Knutsen and Brigitte Geissel, then check out the links to their research below, as well as links to some of the other works referenced in the episode.

Carl Knutsen

• Carl Knutsen’s website: https://chknutsen.com/
• The V-DEM project website https://www.v-dem.net/
• Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Glynn, A., Knutsen, C. H., Lindberg, S. I., Pemstein, D., Seim, B., Skaaning, S.-E., & Teorell, J. (2020). Varieties of democracy: Measuring two centuries of political change. Cambridge University Press.
• Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Knutsen, C. H., Krusell, J., Medzihorsky, J., Pernes, J., Skaaning, S.-E., Stepanova, N., Teorell, J., & Tzelgov, E. (2019). The methodology of “varieties of democracy”(V-Dem). Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 143(1), 107–133. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0759106319854989
• Knutsen, C. H., Teorell, J., Wig, T., Cornell, A., Gerring, J., Gjerløw, H., Skaaning, S.-E., Ziblatt, D., Marquardt, K. L., & Pemstein, D. (2019). Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset: Political institutions in the long 19th century. Journal of Peace Research, 56(3), 440–451. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343318823866

Brigitte Geissel:

• Brigitte Geissel’s website: https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/53879167/Prof__Dr__Brigitte_Gei%C3%9Fel
• Geissel, B. (2022). The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic Innovations By, With and For the People. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003297109
• Mayne, Q., & Geissel, B. (2016). Putting the demos back into the concept of democratic quality. International Political Science Review, 37(5), 634–644. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512115616269

Other works referenced in the episode:

• Warren, M. E. (2017). A Problem-Based Approach to Democratic Theory. American Political Science Review, 111(01), 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055416000605
• Hibbing, J. R., & Theiss-Morse, E. (2002). Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs About How Government Should Work. Cambridge University Press.
• Adcock, R., & Collier, D. (2001). Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research. American Political Science Review, 95(3), 529–546. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055401003100

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To mark the start of the new master’s program on Comparative Democracy at the Department for Social Scienes at Goethe University, this week we are going to publish a special series on Comparative Democracy.

The three episodes of this “Comparatve Democracy Takeover” are hosted by three faculty members. Rikki Dean, Julian Garritzmann and Hanna Pfeifer each host an episode and discuss the conceptualization of democracy (episode 1), the relation between democracy and inequality (2), and democracy and foreign policy (3) with experts.

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