Veit Bader is a professsor of sociology (department of political and socio-cultural sciences) and
of social and political philosophy (department of philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam.
His main research areas are: theories of societies, social movements and collective action and of
modern capitalisms on the one hand, ethics of migration and incorporation; associative
democracy on the other hand. Most important books: Inequalities (1989) Leske + Budrich;
Collective Action (1981) Leske + Budrich; Racism, Ethnicity, Citizenship (1995) Westfälisches
Dampfboot, Münster. The five most important articles in the last years are: - (1995) Citizenship
and Exclusion. Radical Democracy, Community and Justice. What is wrong with
communitarianism? in: Political Theory, 23:2, May , pp. 211 - 246. (1997a) Fairly Open Borders.
In: Bader (ed.) Citizenship and Exclusion. MacMillan, pp. 28-62. (1997e) The Cultural
Conditions of Trans-National Citizenship. In: Political Theory, Vol. 25, No. 6, December, pp. 771
- 813. (1998) Dilemmas of Ethnic Affirmative Action. Benign State-neutrality or Relational Ethnic
Neutrality. In: Citizenship Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, 435 - 473. (1999b) Religious Pluralism.
Secularism or Priority for Democracy? In: Political Theory, Vol. 27, No. 5, October, 597 - 633.