Rethinking Political Hypocrisy in a Global State of Democratic Crisis
Name of applicant
Silas Harrebye
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
Roskilde University
Amount
DKK 854,359
Year
2024
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
Why do we react so strongly to moral double standards? What are the democratic implications of increasing public scandalization of political hypocrisy? How, if ever, can it be justified? With hard data and controversial case studies this project will answer these questions and develop a new “political theory of pendulum” pointing towards a new type of leadership. Liberal democracy depends on it.