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Boris Vormann

Boris Vormann is Professor of Politics and Director of the Politics Concentration at Bard College Berlin. He is also an associated researcher at the Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and serves on the editorial board of American Studies/Amerikastudien, A Quarterly. Vormann has held visiting positions at the CUNY Graduate Center, Harvard University, Sciences Po Paris, and New York University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of comparative politics and economic geography and focus on the role of the state in globalization and urbanization processes; nations and nationalism; and the crisis of democracy. Vormann is a regular commentator on public policy debates for different media outlets (including The Economist, Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau, and Deutschlandfunk). Recent books include the monograph Democracy in Crisis: The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest with Christian Lammert (Pennsylvania University Press, 2019), the co-edited volume The Emergence of Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon with Michael Weinman (Routledge, 2021), and the monograph Legitimizing Authority: American Government and the Promise of Equality co-authored with Christian Lammert and translated by Susan H. Gillespie (Routledge, 2024).

Why We Are Founding the European Democracy Institute

January 12, 2026

Berit Ebert (Professor at Bard College Berlin) and Boris Vormann (Professor at Bard College Berlin) discuss the foundation of the European Democracy Institute as... Read more.