Prof. Dr. Dawid Friedrich

Junior Professor for International Relations

Member of the Center for the Study of Democracy
Member of the Institute of Political Science

Vita

Since 10/2009
Assistant Professor for International Relations at the Center for the Study of Democracy (ZDEMO), Leuphana University Lüneburg.

01/2007-09/2009
Researcher in the project "Fundamental Rights in Europe: Towards a democratic citizenship?” at the University of Bremen

09/2008
PhD at the Graduate School for Social Sciences (GSSS), Bremen

10/2004-08/2007
Associated member of the Bremen Special Research Centre 597 "Transition of the State" at the University of Bremen.

07/2002-09/2003
Member of an international research collaboration, managed by Philippe Pochet (Brussels) and Jonathan Zeitlin (USA) on the Open Method of Co-ordination.

10/2002-  03/2003
PhD-Student at the University of Bath (UK), Department for Social and Policy Sciences

09/2002
Masters of Science (MSc) in ‘European Social Policy Analysis’ (MESPA) at University of Bath (UK) (with distinction).

10/1997-08/2001
MA-Studies in Political Science (MA) and Social Work (Dipl. Paed) at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany.

10/1996-03/1997
Study of Social Work (Dipl. BA) at the Academy of Professions in Villingen-Schwenningen (Vocational School)

Research interests

• Empirical and normative research on the legitimacy of global and European governance, including
  • focusing on the participation of organised civil society, the possibility of participatory-deliberative governance beyond the nation-state,
  • postnational citizenship and democracy in Europe
  • representation and inter-parliamentary bodies beyond the state.
• European law and politics;
• Empirical and normative research on law, politics and democracy beyond the nation-state.