{"id":12365,"date":"2026-01-12T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/member\/david-rischel-phd\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:12:46","slug":"david-rischel-phd","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/david-rischel-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"David Rischel, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Research Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>In cooperation with<strong> Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Stay from 01\/01\/2026 to 31\/12\/2026<\/p>\n\n<p>Funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/zeitenwenden-normative-ordnungen-im-umbruch\/\">Stiftungsfonds Commerzbank im Stifterverband f\u00fcr die Deutsche Wissenschaft<\/a><br\/><br\/>David Rischel is a political theorist working on normative questions within contemporary political philosophy concerning territory, democracy, and distributive justice. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 2025. In 2024-2025, he was a teaching fellow at Queen Mary University of London and a visiting research fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.   <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project: Democratic Autonomy, Polarization, and Accommodation <br\/><\/strong><br\/>Political science research shows that citizens in democratic societies increasingly express their political commitments not through reason-giving or collective action aimed at shared political ends, but through anger and resentment directed at their political opponents, who are viewed as enemies to be defeated rather than as co-citizens. Political scientists refer to this phenomenon as <em>affective polarization<\/em>. This project investigates the extent to which affective polarization undermines democratic values and examines how political parties ought to respond to it. In particular, it asks whether, and under what conditions, parties are justified in accommodating voters\u2019 unjust preferences in polarized democratic contexts.   <br\/><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Fellow In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst Stay from 01\/01\/2026 to 31\/12\/2026 Funded by Stiftungsfonds Commerzbank im Stifterverband f\u00fcr die Deutsche Wissenschaft David Rischel is a political theorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12103,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[214],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-12365","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-fellow-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}