Fadhilah Fitri Primandari

Biography

Fadhilah is a PhD candidate at the Department of Government. Her PhD project offers a feminist conceptual critique and reconstruction of democratic consolidation. A paper derived from one of her thesis chapters, "A Gendered Critique of Huntington's Two-Turnover Test as a Measure of Democratic Consolidation", was nominated for the 2025 ECPR Rudolf Wildenmann Prize, and her essay, "Democratic consolidation: does it have a male bias?" was recognised among the 13 best contributions (out of 300) for ECPR's The Loop blog for the 2025 publication year. Fadhilah's doctoral study is fully funded by the ESRC through the SeNSS DTP. More broadly, Fadhilah's research interests intersect normative and empirical democratic theory, conceptual politics and feminist democratic inclusion, including feminist institutionalism(s). She is particularly interested in the ways in which conceptions of democracy are constructed and narrated from a gendered perspective, and can legitimise different exclusion. Fadhilah obtained her Bachelor's degree in political science from Universitas Indonesia in August 2020 and has worked in various research roles before beginning her doctoral study, including as the Democracy Researcher for New Naratif's NED-funded research project on media freedom in Southeast Asia. Besides her PhD project, she has written on democracy and authoritarianism in Indonesia, and her analysis has appeared in the Australian Journal of Human Rights as well as reputable platforms such as The Diplomat, New Mandala, East Asia Forum, and the LSE Southeast Asia Blog.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Political Science Universitas Indonesia (2020)

Thesis