Manuel Kautz, M.A.

manuel.kautz@uni-erfurt.de

Research Associate at the Chair of Political Theory (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Contact

C03 – teaching building 1 / room 0137

Office hours

on appointment

Visiting address

Campus
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

Student Advisory Service Bachelor Social Sciences (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Contact

C03 – teaching building 1 / room 0137

Visiting address

Campus
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

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)