Professor Nicola de Jager
AfOx Fellow 2018
Research
I have two broad areas of current research, the first is an investigation of whether we are currently in an era of 'the return to history'? In a global context, where liberal democracy appears to be in recession and its normative support is in decline, are we returning to the pursuit of utopias and thus the return to totalitarian regimes?
My second area of interest is investigating the consequences of a decline in religious affiliation in the West. If Protestantism was key to informing many of the underlying values (such as the value of the individual) of liberal democracy, is the decline in religious affiliation contributing to the retreat of liberal democracy?