Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM)

  
Book Launch „The Sciences of the Democracies“
Zeit: Montag, 8.12.2025, 18:00
Ort: Juristische Fakultät, Bebelplatz 2, 10117 Berlin
  
Das Buch wird präsentiert von den Autor*innen

• Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach (Justus-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
• Dannica Fleuß (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
• Ergänzend gibt Saskia Schäfer (Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung) einen Kommentar zum Buch.

 
Die Veranstaltung ist Teil der Reihe LSI Berlin Book Launch und ist eine Kooperation zwischen dem LSI Berlin und dem Lehrstuhl Theorie der Politik.

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten per Mail an: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de 
 
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Background

The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking change, The Sciences of the Democracies proposes a groundbreaking means for holistic study, drawing on five sources of knowledge that will provide better understanding of democracy, or rather, of ‘the democracies’. These are: individual people, groups of people, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans.

This book details how the inclusion of these five sources across temporal, spatial, cultural, linguistic, and species contexts leads to the discovery of democratic practices and institutions hitherto unknown or unfamiliar to the conventional ‘Western’ perception. It promises to generate a new class of democratic theorist – the ‘Fourth Theorist’, who theorizes from thousands of multimedial democracy concepts – and it has the potential for generating better-founded, less arbitrary, more inclusive democratic theories. In doing so, the book considers the philosophical, institutional, educational, and methodological difficulties of the scientific understandings and undertakings it proposes. The book is a choral work of many collaborating authors. Their ambition is to offer a touchstone text for government and public officials, citizens, residents and visitors, researchers, practitioners, and philanthropists (big and small) participating in what is a vibrant global discussion on how to study and practice democracy equitably.