This book is the main product of my Marie Curie fellowship research project
“Conceptualizing representative Democracy in the EU polity by re-thinking classical key …

The present study attempts to combine Raskin's (1985) and Davies'(2011) methodological
approaches to political jokes to investigate Greek political jokes targeting politicians and …

The chapter argues that the building of the EU as a polity was, and is, shaped by conceptual
politics, understood as the innovations and controversies related to interpretations and …

Die europäische Integration hat zur Folge, dass repräsentative Demokratie und
Gewaltenteilung im EU-Mehrebenensystem nicht mehr allein auf den Ebenen der EU …

The article discusses possibilities and limits of representative democracy in the EU
multilevel system against the background of governance mechanisms that have been …

This paper assesses the results of a multimodal analysis of humorous instances found in a
collection of 14 interviews from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The interviews have …

The chapter aims at filling a gap in the current debate on the financial crisis. While the
financial crisis as such has been rather broadly discussed, the democratic dilemmas it …

Compared with other contributors to this volume, some of whom have been in touch with
Kari Palonen since the 1970s, I met him comparatively late. As a PhD student and …

Which consequences does the global financial and economic crisis entail for democratic
government and democratic legitimacy‒both in the EU and in Germany? The article …