A status report from France

Recently, the French media have been showing horrifying images: hooded police on illegal night-time protest marches on the Champs-Elysée or, in the case of the Yellow Vest movement, the use of hard rubber bullets, which have led to dozens of mutilations among protesting citizens. Given the current state of its police force, is France on the road to an “illiberal democracy?” Is the country part of the political model of “authoritarian liberalism?” Prof. Dr. Fabien Jobard from the French National Centre for Scientific Research will highlight the importance and role of the police in democracy in his lecture. Jobard directs a comparative view of France and Germany since 1945, trying to understand the police from the perspective of the theory of democracy and discussing what is meant by the term “democracy” in Western Europe.

• What: Lecture
  
  
• When: February 4, 2020, 8:15pm
  
  
• Wo:
  Collegiate building I
  Lecture Hall 1199
  Platz der Universität 3
  79098 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: Centre for Security and Society in cooperation with Colloquium politicum
  
  
• Contact information: Centre for Security and Society, Tel.: 0761/203-67708
  
  
• No registration is required.
  
  
• The event is free of admission.
  
  
• The even will be held in German.
  
  
• Event poster