@thothiel.bsky.social @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social @simonechambers.bsky.social @tobiasalbrecht.bsky.social

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

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....

@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....

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

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....

@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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

@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....

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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This special issue examines to what extent the model of the democratic underlabourer can and should be reformulated to provide international political theory (IPT) with a plausible and coherent methodological self-understanding.