Manuel Kautz, M.A.

manuel.kautz@uni-erfurt.de

Research associate at the professorship of political theory (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Contact

C03 – teaching building 1 / 0137

Office hours

Mondays, 3.30–4.30 pm, by appointment via email, stating the reason for the appointment;
during the lecture-free period, by arrangement

Visiting address


Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
C03 – teaching building 1
Hieranaplatz 1
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Manuel Kautz, M.A.

Short vita

  • 03/2024: Teaching stay, Sciences Po Lyon, France
  • issues 1/2020 - 2 /2021: Editorial assistant, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie
  • since 11/2020: Research associate at the professorship for political theory
  • 2018 - 2020: Master studies in social sciences at the Humboldt-University Berlin
  • WS 2017: Study abroad, Sciences Po Grenoble, France
  • 2017 - 2020: Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
  • 2014 - 2018: Bachelor studies in International Relations and Economics, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt, Germany

Research focus

Thematic focus:

  • Political representation 

Perspectives:

  • Political Theory
  • History of political thought
  • Social theory

Publications

  • Gemeinsam wider die Entpolitisierung der Demokratie. Cristina Lafonts und Nadia Urbinatis kooperative Kritik an lottokratischen Demokratietheorien (Introduction to the Interview), in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, online first
  • Enacting Candor: Podemos and the Analytical Potential of Ocular Democracy, in: Democratic Theory 8 (2/2021), S. 39-69 open access
  • Können Frauen nur von Frauen repräsentiert werden? Über den Forschungsstand zur deskriptiven und substantiellen Repräsentation von Frauen in Parlamenten anlässlich der Parité-Urteile in Brandenburg und Thüringen, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 12 (1/2021), S. 107-132 (with André Brodocz) open access

Interviews, Blogposts, Reviews

  • The Ship of Democracy and the Lottocratic Iceberg. An Interview with Cristina Lafont and Nadia Urbinati, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, online first
    • Gemeinsam wider die Entpolitisierung der Demokratie. Cristina Lafonts und Nadia Urbinatis kooperative Kritik an lottokratischen Demokratietheorien (Einführung in das Interview), in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, online first
  • Wiedergelesen anlässlich des Todes von Hanna F. Pitkin: The Concept of Representation, in: Theorieblog, 26.05.2023
  • Was verwaiste Wahlkreise für die Demokratie bedeuten, in: Theorieblog, 30.01.2023
  • Defizit oder Desiderat? Zwei Sammelbände zur Institutionenfrage in den agonalen und radikalen  Demokratietheorien, Doppelrezension von Herrmann/Flatscher (Hrsg.): Institutionen des Politischen. Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2020 und Westphal (Hrsg.): Agonale Demokratie und Staat, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 13 (1-2/2022), S. 349-357 (open access)

 

Organization of academic events

  • Panel "Conflict Dynamics in the Polycrisis", 29th DVPW Congress, Georg August University Göttingen, 24-27 September 2024 (together with André Brodocz)
  • Workshop "Representation of Conflict - Conflicts about Representation: Theoretical Perspectives on Practices, Norms and Institutions", University of Erfurt, 4-5 April 2024 (with André Brodocz)

Presentations

  • Wie lassen sich Ideen politischer Repräsentation aus Repräsentationsansprüchen rekonstruieren? Colloquium "Political Theoy" (Prof. Dr. Marcus Llanque), University of Augsburg, 14.01.2025
  • The representative claim as an approach to the history of political thought on representation. Congress "Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty", Universität Bremen, 29.09.2023
  • Dealing with incongruence: deliberative-systemic and constructivist ways. Workshop "Against Lottocracy", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 22.06.2023

Courses

  • Winter Term 24/25: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
  • 03/2024: Feminism and Political Representation (Seminar, Sciences Po Lyon)
  • Winter Term 23/24: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
  • Summer Term 2023: Ideas of representation in the history of political thought (Seminar)
  • Winter Term 22/23: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
  • Summer Term 2022: Feminist Theories of Political Representation (Seminar)
  • Winter Term 21/22: Theory of Democracy -Tutorial
  • Summer Term 2021: Representation Claims of the Parties for the Bundestag Election 2021 (Seminar)
  • Winter Term 20/21: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
  • Summer Term 2022: Feminist Theories of Political Representation (Seminar)