Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Lectures from symposium on Liberal Democracy, Berlin (Videos)

Videos at "You Tube" of lectures from the international symposium on "Liberal Democracy in Hard Times: Transitions, Dilemmas, and Innovations" - a symposium at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, March 22, 2012, to honour Professor Claus Offe and celebrate his prominent academic career.

Introduction
Claus Offe (Berlin)



Panel I.
Transitions to democracy – conditions, modes, quality of outcomes

Micheline Ishay (Denver)

Stephen Holmes (New York)

Ivan Krastev (Sofia/Vienna)

Jacques Rupnik (Paris)

Panel II:
Crises and dilemmas of democracy – diagnoses and prospects

Ulrich K. Preuß (Berlin)

Jürgen Habermas (Frankfurt)



Philippe Schmitter (Florence)

Wolfgang Streeck (Cologne)



Panel III:
Innovations of democracy – new modes of forming collective decisions

Claus Offe (Berlin)

Jon Elster (New York/Paris)

Robert E. Goodin (Canberra)

Lea Ypi (London/Canberra)

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