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Paulus Albertus Blokker

Full Professor

Department of Sociology and Business Law

Academic discipline: SPS/11 Political Sociology

Research

Keywords: Populism Constitutional politics Sociology of constitutions Civic participation East-Central Europe Pragmatic sociology Transnational movements Capitalism Deliberative constitutionalism Human rights

My research focusses currently on the following themes: Populism and law; The sociology of constitutions;  Constitutional politics; Transnational movements, politics, law; Constitutional democracy and civic participation; Social imaginaries, political imaginaries, constitutional imaginaries.

I am coordinator/participant in the following international projects:

- Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law (RECONNECT) (H2020), see: https://reconnect-europe.eu/.

- Transnational Populism and European Democracy (TRAPpED) (Czech Science Foundation, 2018-20), see: https://transnationalpopulism.wordpress.com/.

- Constitution-making and deliberative democracy (ConstDelib) (COST Action CA17135), see: https://constdelib.com/.

- Constitutional populism. Fried or foe of constitutionalism? (GlobalCOnPop) (Australian Research Council), see: https://globalconpop.blog/the-project/.

- Populist Constitutionalism (PopCon), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI)).