Andreas Kalyvas

Andreas Kalyvas works on democratic theory and the history of political ideas from ancient Greek and Roman to modern to contemporary continental political theory. In particular, my work focuses on the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism; problems of popular sovereignty, representation, and political autonomy; radical foundings, revolutionary breaks, and constitution making; the norm and the exception; emergency rule; citizenship and cosmopolitanism. His current research is oriented toward questions of constituent power and radical democratic politics on the one hand and on the overlapping of tyranny and dictatorship in Western political thought, on the other. Kalyvas is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled Legalizing Tyranny: Constitutional Dictatorship and the Enemy Within while working on a second one, Constituent Power and Radical Democracy.