M.A. Anton Windirsch
https://www.agrarpol.uni-kiel.de/de/mitarbeiter/wiss-mitarbeiter/anton-windirsch-m-a
Project
Deliberation in case of environmental ethical policies and the German discourse on animal welfare
The project investigates the contemporary discourse on animal welfare in order to identify barriers that counteract both ethical and legitimate policy making. This is done by evaluating (a) discourse structures to locate discourse asymmetries and (b) animal ethical positions to derive the type of dissent that characterizes the discourse on animal welfare. Subsequent to the descriptive discourse analysis, normative discourse settings and their policy outputs will be simulated on the basis of quantitative social network models and institutional models to examine whether the theoretically promising concept of deliberative democracy would be beneficial to advance animal welfare politics.
Education
| 12/2016 | Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel |
| 10/2012 – 09/2015 | Master of Arts, Political Science with focus on Political Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Bamberg |
| 10/2008 – 09/2011 | Bachelor of Arts, Social Science and Philosophy with focus on Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Leipzig |
Work Experience
| 10/2016 - 06/2017 | Research Assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel |
| 07/2011 - 09/2012 | Intern and Volunteer at various communication projects (Energy Sector, Process Management, Public Transport, International Aid), Leipzig |
Research Interests
Political Economy, Political Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Social Network Analysis