Marcus Carlsen Häggrot
Postdoctoral fellow
I am a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po. My research is in the field of political theory and focuses on normative aspects of non-voting. It explores whether citizens in a democracy have any moral rights not to vote, what moral consequences follow from non-voting, and how a democracy’s institutions might appropriately respond when some citizens do not participate in elections. I have also worked on the definition of electoral constituencies, external voting, multiculturalism, and the moral rights of nomadic minority groups.
Developing Ethical Abstention Contextualism' (DevEthAC)
Before joining CEVIPOF, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies (2018-19) and the Leibniz Research Group ‘Transnational Justice’ (2019-23) at Goethe University Frankfurt. I have also been an adjunct lecturer on Sciences Po’s Reims campus (2014-2018).
I am a graduate of Oxford University (DPhil 2017; MSc 2010) and Uppsala University (politices magister 2010).
https://www.marcuscarlsenhaggrot.com/
Research Fields
democratic theory, voting ethics
