In November 2025, Udit Bhatia, Pierre-Etienne Vandamme, Yanina Welp and I were awarded a €9.2 million ERC Synergy Grant to study “POPGOV: Popular Government in Global Perspective”. The project will run from 2026-2032 and seeks to uncover the principles and institutions of popular government, by which we mean democratic alternatives to representative government that empower ordinary citizens rather than socio-economic elites. More information will be made available in the coming months, but in the meantime you can read the project announcement here.