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Nina Burge

Ph.D. student

E-mail: nina.burge@statsvet.su.se

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Office hours: Tuesdays 16-17.

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Research interests

Political theory, history of ideas, philosophy of science - paradigms, contemporary history of political theory, mind, self, person in democratic theory, pluralism

Social movement theory, political action - Internet activism

Methods - analysis of language, quantitative discourse analysis

Doctoral thesis: "Paradigms in Contemporary Normative Democratic Theory"

Teaching

• Political Science I, Political Theory (English)

• Political Science II, Independent Research Project (English) (also course coordinator)

Education

• 2007-2008: Visiting graduate student, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.
• 2004: Degree of Master of Political Science, Stockholm University
• 1997-2002: Studies at Stockholm University in French, Italian, Political Science, Statistics, Swedish writing
• 1996: Studies at Uppsala University in Economics
• 1996: Degree of Bachelor of Economics with Special subject: Government and History, LSE 
• 1993-1996: Studies at London School of Economics in International History, Political Science, Political Theory, History of Ideas, Anthropology, Public International Law

Selected publications, presentations and work in progress

Peer-reviewed conference papers

“Difficult Unities and Disunities in Contemporary Democratic Theory”. Paper presented at the ECPR Summer School, at Universitat Autonòma, Barcelona, 24-27 August, 2008.

 “Must We Assume Conditions of Plurality in Contemporary Democratic Theory?” Paper presented at the Nordic Political Science Association Conference at the University of Tromsø, 6-9 August, 2008

“Mind in Theories of Democracy and the Principle of Counting Each as One”. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Swedish Political Science Association, University of Karlstad,
12-14 October, 2006.

“Representing Mind for Democracy”. Paper presented at the International Congress of the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, ”Social Sciences and Democracy: A Philosophy of Science Perspective,” 28-30 September, 2006.

“Wording Reality: A Natural Experiment on the Internet”. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Swedish Political Science Association, Stockholm University, 7-9 October, 2004.

Conference papers

“Approaching the Nature of Contemporary Democratic Theory”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Network of Political Theory, Lund University, 22-23 April, 2010.

“Grounding Unity, Representing Mind: Research notes”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Network of Political Theory, Stockholm University, 25-6 April, 2006.

Unpublished

“On the Discursive Constructions of A Contemporary Social Movement and Their Analysis”. Masters thesis, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 2003.