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Angela Bourne

Dr. Bourne is Professor (MSO) in European Politics at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published widely on the politics of party bans, including a 2018 book on Democratic Dilemmas: Why democracies ban political parties (Routledge). She currently leads a team of researchers examining opposition to European populist parties and in 2023 published a book on Responding to Populist Parties in Europe: The Populist People vs the Other People (Oxford University Press). She has held posts at University of Aberystwyth and University of Dundee in the United Kingdom.

Ulrich Wagrandl

Ulrich Wagrandl is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Vienna's University of Economics and Business. He did his PhD on the concept of militant democracy - a democracy that is willing to defend itself - in Austrian Constitutional Law. In his research, Ulrich focuses on the fundamental questions of public law and their historical and philosophical roots. Currently, he is working on his Habilitation thesis on the freedom of occupation (the right to choose one's job and to conduct a business). He remains deeply interested in the future of liberal democracy and the many ways it can stay resilient.