Assoc. Prof. Fabio Wolkenstein, PhD

Academic Position: 

Associate Professor for Transformations of Democracy at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences

Academic Career:

Since February 2023: Associate Professor for Transformations of Democracy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna.

2021-2023: Assistant Professor for Transformations of Democracy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna

2020-2021: Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University

2017-2019: Assistant Professor at the Institut of Political Science, Aarhus University

2017-2021: Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Amsterdam (funded by a VENI Grant from the Dutch national research organisation NWO, project number 016.Veni.185.084)

2016-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow at the DFG-funded Kolleg Research Group "Justitia Amplificata" at the Goethe University Frankfurt and Free University Berlin.

2016: Doctorate at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Research Areas:

Political ideologies (esp. Christian democracy and social democracy)

Theory of democracy

Political parties and representation

Publications (selection):

i.V. Political Representation as Communicative Practice. (mit Christopher Wratil) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2022. Die dunkle Seite der Christdemokratie. Geschichte einer autoritären Versuchung. München: C.H.Beck

2019. Rethinking Party Reform. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

i.E. What Is Democratic Backsliding? In: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.

i.E. Christian Europe Redux. In: Journal of Common Market Studies.

2022. When Do Social Social Democratic Parties Unite Over Tough Immigration Policy? (mit Philip Rathgeb) In: West European Politics 45 (5), S. 979-1002.

2022. European Political Parties’ Complicity in Democratic Backsliding. In: Global Constitutionalism 11 (1), S. 55-82.

2021. Where Does Europe End? Christian Democratic Ideology and the Expansion of Europe. (mit Josef Hien) In: Journal of Common Market Studies 59 (6), S. 1623-1639.

2021. Multidimensional Representation. (mit Christopher Wratil) In: American Journal of Political Science 65 (4), S. 862-876.

2020. The Social Democratic Case Against the EU. In: Journal of European Public Policy, 27 (9), S. 1349-1367

2020. Transnational Partisan Networks and Constituent Power in the EU. In: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 27 (1), S. 127-142.

2019. Agents of Popular Sovereignty. In: Political Theory, 47 (3), S. 338-362.

2018. Gentrification and Occupancy Rights. (mit Jakob Huber) In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 17 (4), S. 378-397.

2017. The Crisis of Party Democracy, Cognitive Mobilization, and the Case for Making Parties More Deliberative. (mit Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti) In: American Political Science Review, 111 (1), S. 97-109.

i.V. Political Parties and Constituent Power. In: Lucia Rubinelli/Markus Patberg/Peter Niesen (Hg.) The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

i.E. Revisiting Kelsen’s Party Constitutionalism. In: Sandrine Baume/David Ragazzoni (Hg.): Kelsen on Democracy: Genesis, Theory, Legacies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

i.E. Revisiting the Constructivist Turn in Political Representation. In: European Journal of Political Theory.

2022. Rezension von Nadia Urbinati “Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2019). In: Perspectives on Politics, 20 (2), S. 711-712.

2022. Volkssouveränität und transnationale Parteien. In: Philipp Erbentraut/Oliver Eberl (Hg.): Volkssouveränität und Staatlichkeit. Intermediäre Organisationen und Räume der Selbstgesetzgebung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 119-139.

2020. Kommentar zu Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, What is Christian Democracy? (Cambridge University Press, 2019). H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-17, verfügbar online unter: hdiplo.org/to/RT22-17

2020. „Critical Dialogue“ mit Cristina Lafont. In: Perspectives on Politics, 18 (4), S. 1162-1167.