Gerda Henkel Foundation — Democracy Funding Programme (history and future transformations)
The Gerda Henkel Foundation invites applications for research projects on democracy in two strands: a historical track exploring democracies as utopias, lived experiences, and sources of conflict or threat, and a forward-looking track examining political, technological, social (and ecological) transformations shaping future democratic societies. The programme funds humanities and social-scienc…
Background
Over the last few years, a previously somewhat abstract finding has become an empirical fact: Democracy is not a given. The rule of law, the separation of powers, freedom of expression, and a commitment to the common good have all lost some of their binding eff…
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Applications are open to post-doctoral researchers with links to a university from the entire spectrum of humanities and social sciences. The proposed projects must address focal themes that are being examined by a research group, which the Foundation unders…
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