Dr. Markus Patberg

• 2021 – present: Research Associate, Political Theory, University of Hamburg
• 2016 –2021: Postdoctoral Researcher (from 04/2020 Principal Investigator/Eigene Stelle), DFG project "Reclaiming Constituent Power? Emerging Counter-Narratives of EU Constitutionalisation", University of Hamburg
• 2018: Visiting Fellow, LSE, London/UK
• 2016: PhD in Political Science, University of Hamburg
• 2013 – 2016: Research Associate, Political Theory, University of Hamburg
• 2012 – 2013: Visiting Researcher, UCL, London/UK
• 2011 – 2012: Research Associate, Political Theory, TU Darmstadt
• 2009 – 2011: M.A. Political Theory, Goethe-University Frankfurt/TU Darmstadt
• 2010: Visiting Student, New School for Social Research, New York City/USA
• 2006 – 2009: B.A. Political Science, TU Darmstadt

Monographien / Books

• 2020: Constituent Power in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Link).
  
  
  Reviews by Joel Colón-Ríos and Lucia Rubinelli in Constellations, Rafael Macía Briedis in European Constitutional Law Review, Michal Matlak in Contemporary Political Theory, and Massimo Fichera in Common Market Law Review. Podcast/interview on the book with the Review of Democracy. Video presentation on the Diritti Comparati vlog.
  

• 2018: Usurpation und Autorisierung. Konstituierende Gewalt im globalen Zeitalter. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus (Reihe “Theorie und Gesellschaft”) (Link).
  
  Book symposium with contributions by Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Esther Neuhann and Andreas Busen and my Reply at Theorieblog. Reviews by Christian Kreuder-Sonnen at Soziopolis and by Verena Frick in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

Zeitschriftenbeiträge (begutachtet) / Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

• 2023: Exit-Politik als Regression. Wider den souveränen Voluntarismus. Leviathan 51 (Sonderband 40): 170-192 (with S. Ahlhaus) (Link).
• 2021: The Democratic Ambivalence of EU Disintegration. A Mapping of Costs and Benefits. Swiss Political Science Review 27 (3): 601-618 (Link).
• 2020: Can Disintegration Be Democratic? The European Union between Legitimate Change and Regression. Political Studies 68 (3): 582-599 (Link).
• 2020: Extraordinary Partisanship in the European Union. Constituent Power and the Problem of Political Agency. Constellations 27 (1): 143-157 (Link).
• 2019: Destituent Power in the European Union. On the Limits of a Negativistic Logic of Constitutional Politics. Journal of International Political Theory 15 (1): 82-99 (Link).
• 2018: After the Brexit Vote. What’s Left of ‘Split’ Popular Sovereignty? Journal of European Integration 40 (7): 923-937 (Link).
• 2018: Challenging the Masters of the Treaties. Emerging Narratives of Constituent Power in the European Union. Global Constitutionalism 7 (2): 263-293 (Link).
• 2017: A Systematic Justification for the EU's Pouvoir Constituant Mixte. Principles of Constitutional Politics in Supranational Polities. European Law Journal 23 (6): 441-453 (Link).
• 2017: Constituent Power. A Discourse-Theoretical Solution to the Conflict between Openness and Containment. Constellations 24 (1): 51-62 (Link).
• 2017: The Levelling Up of Constituent Power in the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 55 (2): 203-212 (Link).
• 2016: Against Democratic Intergovernmentalism. The Case for a Theory of Constituent Power in the Global Realm. International Journal of Constitutional Law 14 (3): 622-638 (Link).
• 2015: Konstituierende Autorität. Ein Grundbegriff für die Internationale Politische Theorie. Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 6 (2): 159-172 (with P. Niesen & S. Ahlhaus) (Link).
• 2013: Suprastaatliche Verfassungspolitik und die Methode der rationalen Rekonstruktion. Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 4 (1): 80-98 (Link). Reprint: Der Staat 53 (3): 401-424 (Link).
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  2014: Supranational Constitutional Politics and the Method of Rational Reconstruction. Philosophy & Social Criticism 40 (6): 501-521 (Link).
• 2013: Constituent Power beyond the State. An Emerging Debate in International Political Theory. Millennium – Journal of International Studies 42 (1): 224-238 (Link).
• 2013: Zwei Modelle empirischer Legitimitätsforschung. Eine Replik auf Michael Zürns Gastbeitrag in der PVS 4/2011. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 54 (1): 155-172 (Link).

Herausgeberschaft / Edited Work

• 2021: Special Issue: Democratic Challenges of Differentiated (Dis)Integration. Swiss Political Science Review 27 (3): 539-681 (with S. Kröger) (Link).
• 2017: Symposium: The EU's Pouvoir Constituant Mixte. Journal of Common Market Studies 55 (2): 165-222 (Link).

Sammelbandbeiträge / Chapters in Edited Volumes

• 2019: Habermas und die Europäische Union. Beiträge zu einer Diskurstheorie supranationaler Demokratie. In: Corchia, Luca/Müller-Doohm, Stefan/Outhwaite, William (eds.): Habermas global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 288-301 (Link).
• 2018: Formwandel oder Desintegration? Zur Möglichkeit eines demokratischen Neuanfangs in der Europäischen Union. In: Thaa, Winfried/Volk, Christian (eds.): Formwandel der Demokratie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 307-325 (Link).
• 2014: Souveränität als Kompetenzdistribution. Zum Konzept der suprastaatlichen Verfassungspolitik. In: Volk, Christian/Kuntz, Friederike (eds.): Der Begriff der Souveränität in der transnationalen Konstellation. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 81-107 (Link).
• 2014: Extraordinary Politics and the Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Courts. In: Føllesdal, Andreas/Maliks, Reidar (eds.): Kantian Theory and Human Rights. New York/London: Routledge, 130-152 (Link).
• 2012: Von der verfassunggebenden zur konstitutionalisierenden Gewalt. Die demokratische Legitimität völkerrechtlicher Konstitutionalisierung. In: Fassbender, Bardo/Siehr, Angelika (eds.): Suprastaatliche Konstitutionalisierung. Perspektiven auf die Legitimität, Kohärenz und Effektivität des Völkerrechts. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 23-56 (with S. Ahlhaus) (Link).

Rezensionen, Kommentare, Repliken (Auswahl) / Reviews, Comments, Replies (Selection)

• 2023: Digital Fragmentation. Habermas on the New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Review of Democracy, 02.02.23 (Link).
• 2022: Republicanism, EU Democracy and Differentiated (Dis-)Integration. European Journal of Political Theory 21 (1): 178-186 (Link).
• 2021: Emergency Politics after Globalization (with M. Heupel, M. Koenig-Archibugi, C. Kreuder-Sonnen, A. Séville, J. Steffek, J. White). International Studies Review 23(4): 1959-1987 (Link).
• 2021: The Conference on the Future of Europe Lacks a Clear Conception of Democratic Authorisation. The Loop, 29.03.21 (Link). German version: DVPW-Blog, 15.04.21 (Link).
• 2020: Dealing with a Complex Family Tree. Reflections on Lucia Rubinelli’s “Constituent Power: A History”. Verfassungsblog, 20.12.20 (Link).
• 2020: Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions. Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. Constellations 27 (2): 326-328 (Link).
• 2020: Mehr als nur ein schillerndes Etikett? Review of “Radikale Demokratietheorie. Ein Handbuch”, ed. Dagmar Comtesse, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen, Martin Nonhoff. Soziopolis, 12.02.20 (Link).
• 2019: Constituent Power and Struggles for Representation in a Global Context. A Comment on Hans Lindahl’s “Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion”. Etica & Politica 21 (3): 397-402 (Link).
• 2019: Brexit and the Democratic Puzzle of Disintegration. Political Studies Association Blog, 15.10.19 (Link).
• 2018: Zur rationalen Rekonstruktion der Praxis demokratischer Verfassunggebung – Replik des Autors. Theorieblog, 26.11.18 (Link).
• 2018: After Brexit, the UK Should Have a Democratic Right of Return. LSE Brexit, 30.10.18 (with P. Niesen) (Link).
• 2018: Beherrschung und Sezession. Andreas Oldenbourgs ZPTh-Artikel in der Diskussion. Theorieblog, 15.05.18 (Link).
• 2018: Brexit, as a Democratic Exercise, Prompts the Need for a Normative Theory of Political Disintegration. LSE Brexit, 28.03.18 (Link).

• “Exit Politics as Regression: Withdrawal from International Institutions and Loss of Normative Achievements”, Workshop “International Cooperation in Challenging Times”, University of Zurich, 03.10.22.
• “EU Disintegration and the Problem of Democratic Regression”, ECPR General Conference, University of Innsbruck, 22.08.22.
• “Farewell to Constituent Power? The Conference on the Future of Europe and the Democratic Minimum”, Workshop “The Future of European Democracy”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, 21.05.22.
• “Digitalization and Deliberative Systems”, Colloquium “Demokratie und Digitalisierung” (online), Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, 17.02.22.
• “How To Theorize the Legitimacy of EU Disintegration”, Workshop “How To Theorise about the EU” (online), Goethe-University Frankfurt, 06.05.21.
• “The Democratic Ambivalence of Disintegration: A Mapping of Costs and Benefits”, Conference “Brexit and European Integration” (online), Queen Mary, University of London, 11.09.20.
• “Responding to Emergency Europe: Towards a Democratic Politics of Disintegration?”, Workshop “The Transnational Politics of Emergency” (online), Hertie School, Berlin, 19.06.20.
• “Shaping EU Federalism: Democratic Problems of Disintegration, Workshop “Which Federalism for which Union?”, TU Darmstadt, 28.11.19.
• “Constituent Power in the European Union: A Critique of Demoi-cracy”, ECPR General Conference, University of Wroclaw, 05.09.19.
• “Can Disintegration Be Democratic? The European Union between Legitimate Change and Regression”, European University Institute, Florence, 07.06.19.
• “Constituent Power in the European Union: Towards a Democratic Response to Constitutional Mutation”, Conference Philosophy & Social Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 31.05.19.
• “Constituent Power in the European Union: A Critique of Regional Cosmopolitanism”, ARENA Tuesday Seminar, University of Oslo, 14.05.19.
• “Constituent Power in the European Union: A Critique of Demoi-cracy”, European Governance Colloquium, Hertie School, Berlin, 15.04.19.
• “Extraordinary Partisanship in the European Union”, Workshop “Political Parties, Partisanship, and the Constitution”, University of Oxford, 15.03.19.
• “Towards a Political Theory of Disintegration”, DVPW Congress “Frontiers of Democracy”, Goethe University Frankfurt, 28.09.2018.
• “Constituent Power and Disintegration. Withdrawing from a Supranational Polity”, ECPR General Conference, University of Hamburg, 23.08.2018.
• “In Search of the Right Mode of Politics? DiEM25 between Constituent Power and Partisanship”, ECPR-SGEU Conference, Sciences Po Paris, Paris, 14.06.2018.
• “Protest, Constituent Power and Transnational Partisanship”, Conference “Philosophy and Social Science”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 17.05.2018.
• “Challenging the Masters of the Treaties: Emerging Narratives of Constituent Power in the European Union”, ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, 08.09.2017.
• “What’s Left of ‘Split Popular Sovereignty after the Brexit Vote?”, ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, 09.09.2017.
• “Constructing a New Sovereign. Emerging Narratives of Constituent Power in the European Union”, Conference “Images of Sovereignty”, KU Leuven, 09.06.2017.
• “Leaving behind the Unified People, but not Free and Equal Persons, as Ultimate Source of Authority”, Conference “Philosophy and Social Science”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 20.05.2017.
• “Narrative verfassunggebender Gewalt in der Europäischen Union”, Konferenz “Formwandel der Demokratie”, University of Trier, 31.03.2017.
• “The EU’s Pouvoir Constituant Mixte. A Systematic Justification”, ECPR General Conference, Charles University Prague, 10.09.2016.
• “Principles of Supra-State Constitutional Politics. A Systematic Justification for the EU’s Pouvoir Constituant Mixte”, ASPP Annual Conference, LSE, 28.06.2016.
• “Demoi-cracy, Cosmopolitanism, Pouvoir Constituant Mixte”, 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union (SGEU-ECPR), University of Trento, 16.06.2016.
• “Revolution or Constituent Power? On Constitutional Agency in the EU”, Conference “Beyond the Crisis? – European Transformations”, University of Flensburg, 20.05.2016.
• “Democratic Constituent Power. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach”, ASPP Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam, 26.06.2015.
• “The EU from the Standpoint of its Constituent Power(s)”, Invited Talk at ACCESS EUROPE Workshop “Political Theory of European Integration”, VU Amsterdam, 04.06.2015.
• “Democratic Constituent Power. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach”, Conference “Workings of Democracy”, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 28.05.2015.
• “Democratic Constituent Power. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach”, Conference “Philosophy and Social Science”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 22.05.2015.
• “Defizite intergouvernementaler Verfassungspolitik. Plädoyer für eine Theorie konstituierender Gewalt jenseits des Staates”, Conference “Konstitutionalisierung in Zeiten globaler Krisen”, HU Berlin, 28.02.2014.
• “Verfassungspolitik und rationale Rekonstruktion”, Conference “Praktiken der Kritik”, Goethe University Frankfurt, 06.12.2013.
• “Constituent Power and the Democratic Legitimacy of Institution Building in the Global Realm”, ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux, 05.09.2013.
• “Constituent Power and the Democratic Legitimacy of Institution Building in the Global Realm”, Invited Talk at Workshop “Global Constitutionalism: Legal Concepts and Emerging Transnational Orders”, TU Dresden, 18.07.2013.
• “Extraordinary Politics and the Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Courts”, Conference “New Frontiers for Human Rights Theory and Practice”, University of Glasgow, 22.05.2013.
• “Non-Institutionalized Popular Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of International Human Rights Courts”, Conference “Kant and International Human Rights”, University of Oslo, 28.08.2012.

Lehre an der Universität Hamburg

Sommersemester 2023
Politische Theorie der Klimakrise
B.A.-Seminar

Demokratietheorie: alte und neue Wege (2)
B.A.-Projektseminar

Wintersemester 2022/23
Democracy in the Digital Age
M.Sc.-Seminar

Digitale Demokratie
M.A.-Seminar

Demokratietheorie: alte und neue Wege (1)
B.A.-Projektseminar

Wintersemester 2021/22
Exit-Politik: Sezession, Austritt, Desintegration
M.A.-Seminar

Einführung in die politische Ideengeschichte
B.A.-Lektürekurs

Sommersemester 2021
Politische Theorie und Digitalisierung
B.A.-Seminar

Wintersemester 2017/18
Democracy and the Future of the European Union
M.Sc.-Seminar

Sommersemester 2015
Demokratie und Verfassung
B.A.-Seminar (Lehramt)

Sommersemester 2014
Volkssouveränität
B.A.-Seminar

Lehre an der TU Darmstadt

Sommersemester 2012
Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit
B.A.-Seminar

Wintersemester 2011/12
Politische Legitimität
B.A.-Seminar