Sabbatical Stefan Rummens: Populism and technocracy: Opposite threats to our democratic society? KU Leuven
During this sabbatical period, I explicitly connect two lines of research of my own for the first time: on the one hand my work on Jürgen Habermas and on the other my work on populism. The connecting element is an investigation into the technocratic content of contemporary politics. The leading research hypothesis is that populism and technocracy should be seen as opposing but mutually reinforcing threats to our contemporary democracy. ...