Seminar 2:Enhancing citizens’ trust?

Do democratic innovations provide the adequate principles and mechanisms to enhance citizens’ trust towards democratic institutions? If so, where would you place trust in the interplay between innovative and standard democracy in this field?

Date: October 24, 3-5PM

Guest Speakers:

• Dr Francesco Veri, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies, University of Zurich and a Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.
• Prof. Brigitte Geissel, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology, Goethe University.