Manuel Kautz, M.A.

• 03/2024: Teaching stay, Sciences Po Lyon, France
• issues 1/2020 - 2 /2021: Editorial assistant, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie
• since 11/2020: Research associate at the professorship for political theory
• 2018 - 2020: Master studies in social sciences at the Humboldt-University Berlin
• WS 2017: Study abroad, Sciences Po Grenoble, France
• 2017 - 2020: Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
• 2014 - 2018: Bachelor studies in International Relations and Economics, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt, Germany

Thematic focus:

• Political representation 

Perspectives:

• Political Theory
• History of political thought
• Social theory

• Enacting Candor: Podemos and the Analytical Potential of Ocular Democracy, in: Democratic Theory 8 (2/2021), S. 39-69 [open access]
• Können Frauen nur von Frauen repräsentiert werden? Über den Forschungsstand zur deskriptiven und substantiellen Repräsentation von Frauen in Parlamenten anlässlich der Parité-Urteile in Brandenburg und Thüringen, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 12 (1/2021), S. 107-132 (with André Brodocz) [open access]

Blogposts, Reviews

• Wiedergelesen anlässlich des Todes von Hanna F. Pitkin: The Concept of Representation, in: Theorieblog, 26.05.2023
• Was verwaiste Wahlkreise für die Demokratie bedeuten, in: Theorieblog, 30.01.2023
• Defizit oder Desiderat? Zwei Sammelbände zur Institutionenfrage in den agonalen und radikalen  Demokratietheorien, Doppelrezension von Herrmann/Flatscher (Hrsg.): Institutionen des Politischen. Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2020 und Westphal (Hrsg.): Agonale Demokratie und Staat, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 13 (1-2/2022), S. 349-357

• Panel "Conflict Dynamics in the Polycrisis", 29th DVPW Congress, Georg August University Göttingen, 24-27 September 2024 (together with André Brodocz)
• Workshop "Representation of Conflict - Conflicts about Representation: Theoretical Perspectives on Practices, Norms and Institutions", University of Erfurt, 4-5 April 2024 (with André Brodocz)

• The representative claim as an approach to the history of political thought on representation. Congress "Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty", Universität Bremen, 29.09.2023
• Dealing with incongruence: deliberative-systemic and constructivist ways. Workshop "Against Lottocracy", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 22.06.2023

• 03/2024: Feminism and Political Representation (Seminar, Sciences Po Lyon)
• Winter Term 23/24: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
• Summer Term 2023: Ideas of representation in the history of political thought (Seminar)
• Winter Term 22/23: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
• Summer Term 2022: Feminist Theories of Political Representation (Seminar)
• Winter Term 21/22: Theory of Democracy -Tutorial
• Summer Term 2021: Representation Claims of the Parties for the Bundestag Election 2021 (Seminar)
• Winter Term 20/21: Theory of Democracy - Tutorial
• Summer Term 2022: Feminist Theories of Political Representation (Seminar)