ARS: Damjan Tomić

Advanced Research Seminar with Damjan Tomić will take place on 13 May at 14:00 (lecture room 503). 

Democracies involve trade-offs since all their desirable qualities cannot be simultaneously maximized. Hard choices must be made in order to balance democratic principles such as popular sovereignty and the rule of law, or freedom and political equality. DEMOTRADEOFF examines the positions of citizens and parties regarding democratic trade-offs; how these contribute to citizens’ increasing discontent with democracy; how the rising politicization of the trade-offs of democracy might exacerbate these dynamics; and whether it is possible to curb this process.

About the guest speaker:

Damjan Tomić is a doctoral researcher with the ERC-funded DEMOTRADEOFF project and a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a member of the Democracy, Elections and Citizenship research group. His research focuses on public opinion, political behavior, and citizens’ commitment to democratic principles using cross-national surveys and experimental methods. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and the Revista Española de Ciencia Política.