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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Perhaps of interest to @rbellamy.bsky.social @tomtheuns.bsky.social @bencrum.nl @ascherz.bsky.social @hongdp.bsky.social @brianmilstein.bsky.social @luise-mlr.bsky.social @uguraytac.bsky.social @koljamoeller.bsky.social @alasianuti.bsky.social @pjv.bsky.social @meineanna.bsky.social

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Last but not least, there is a response from @peterniesen.bsky.social, whose work on Demokratiewissenschaft inspired this project and to whom the SI is dedicated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Democratic underlabouring in times of emergency: The case of climate litigation - Svenja Ahlhaus, 2025

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social tackles the question of how democratic underlabourers should respond to emergency politics. Using the example of climate litigation, and the underlying emergency claims, Ahlhaus argues for a mode of "emergency underlabouring". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

There is a growing tendency to diagnose political crises that democracies are supposedly unable to address, such as the climate emergency or the rise of right-w...

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

In my onw contribution, I ask how democratic underlabourers can diagnose regressive effects of withdrawals from international treaties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Bill Scheuerman adopts the standpoint of the democratic underlabourer in examining the legitimacy of ‘property disobedience’, that is, of politically motivated property damage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

@artsofdenial.bsky.social proposes a reinterpretation of the democratic underlabourer as a "constitutional underlabourer" of global politics. IPT is to enable the political subjects of the international order to make normative sense of their legal structures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oliver Eberl argues that cosmopolitan thinkers of the enlightenment such as Immanuel Kant, who are often the focus of postcolonial critique, already pursued an ideal of open dialogue that made them – in Eberl’s terminology – "underlabourers of the global". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Katrin Flikschuh argues against any pre-commitment of IPT to (liberal) democracy in a Western key. Instead of democratic mindedness, she proposes an open mindedness as basis for an intercultural dialogue about global norms and solutions to collective problems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Taking the stance of the democratic underlabourer as a reflexive member, Carmen Pavel examines who should be considered a legitimate subject of constituent power at the international level. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Building on empirical studies, which demonstrate how procedural choices influence the substance of political decisions, @clandwehr.bsky.social argues that democratic underlabouring is to enable citizens to engage in meta-deliberation about procedures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

@cordschmelzle.bsky.social argues that, instead of holding on to an inapplicable requirement of democratic restraint, IPT scholars should be confident to engage in "morally motivated direct interventions". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

In our introduction, @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social, Oliver Eberl and I distinguish two interpretations of the democratic underlabourer and explain the problems the model is facing in global contexts – above all, the absence of a democratic framework.
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