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SUMMARY:Jan-Werner Müller: The critical infrastructure of democracy
DESCRIPTION:Ever since the nineteenth century\, political parties and profe
 ssional media were widely deemed indispensable for the proper functioning 
 of representative democracy. They constituted what one might call the crit
 ical infrastructure of democracy\, an infrastructure that enabled citizens
  to use their basic rights effectively and also to reach each other (and b
 e reached). Both intermediary institutions are undergoing major structural
  transformations today. It has proven difficult to judge these changes\, p
 artly because we lack a proper account of the distinctive roles of interme
 diary institutions beyond standard claims of “connecting citizens to the
  political system”. The lecture will offer such an account and also sugg
 est normative criteria for judging how well intermediary powers are workin
 g.Jan-Werner Müller is Professor for Political Theory at Princeton Univer
 sity. He is co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA\; tod
 ay: Bard College Berlin). In addition to numerous published articles in th
 e international press\, Müller is the author of various monographs such a
 s “Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe” 
 (2013)\, “Was ist Populism? Ein Essay” (2016)\, or “Furcht und Freih
 eit. Für einen anderen Liberalismus” (2019). His essay “Was ist Popul
 ismus?” has been translated into numerous languages and is considered a 
 central work for understanding contemporary political developments. Curren
 tly\, Müller is developing a reassessment of intermediary institutions in
  democracy\, which he will examine in the lecture.
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LOCATION:Französische Straße 9 \, Berlin (Germany) 
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