ABOUT ME

Professional profile

Political philosopher working in democratic theory.


Research areas

Political theory, legal theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, metaethics.

Main interests

Justifications of democracy, democratic legitimacy and obligation, political equality, parties and partisanship, the ethics of voting.

CURRENT ENGAGEMENT

Description

Position: Post-doctoral Researcher
Duration: October 2021 - September 2024
Institution: Goethe University - Frankfurt a.M.

Project

Title: ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under              Conditions of Uncertainty
Type: Research Cluster

Research focus

Parties’ and representatives’ distinctive trustworthiness in the adversarial context of electoral democracy.

MOST RECENT POSITION

Description

Position: Principal Investigator
Duration: October 2019 - September 2021
Institution: Sciences Po Paris - Political Science                           Research Centre (CEVIPOF)

Project

Title: VoiCED: Voting Citizens and the Ethics of              Democracy
Type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA)
             Individual Fellowship funded by the Horizon
             2020 programme of the European Commission

Research focus

Citizens' duties as democratic lawgivers: By explicitly acknowledging the representative nature of contemporary democracies, the project looked at citizens’ duties qua voters in correlation with political parties’ and representatives’ obligations as part of the same process.