ERC Starting Grant · 2025
NEWREPUBLIC is about the democracy movements which struggle against authoritarian regimes, especially in Africa. It focuses on the ideas of these movements. Past research has read their ideas as pro-democratic, but this oversimplifies. My recent exploratory research argues that at least some of these movements express visions of democracy which resemble those of small-r republican political theory; they emphasise themes of domination and power. However, this research, and its implications, have gone untested and unverified. In NEWREPUBLIC, I will lead a postdoctoral and two doctoral researchers. We will develop and apply innovative, reliable and replicable methodologies which will test…
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