Stoked to chair this roundtable at Università di Bologna on the #EuropeanElections2024 on 14 June! We will discuss starting premises and future scenarios with Paul Taggart, Anna Lavizzari, Manuela Moschella, Gianfranco Baldini, and Elena Baracani. Save the date! All welcome! 👇

As social movement scholars we express strong concerns about the growing trend to restrict the right of expression, critique, and protest in several countries in Europe. Signed by research centres, journals and standing groups. cosmos.sns.it/news/a-stateme…

11 days left to apply! #Postdoc position: Working on #fair #AI and interested to combine normative and empirical research? Come work with me and other Leiden colleagues on #fair #educational #assessment in the age of AI. Deadline May 31. For more details: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

Together, deliberative democracy and cultural sociology can provide an account of democratization that is more powerful than either can muster in isolation. Read the latest from our very own John Dryzek and Jensen Sass. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I had a great time with all of you in wonderful Lisbon! Obrigado :)

#Sortition is not magic. It can even be weaponized against #democracy. No Italian government (of any color) ever bothered using a sortition body to involve citizens, never. Now they are using sortition to disrupt and disempower the justice system! #Italy avvenire.it/attualita/pagi…

In #Italia i governi non hanno mai nemmeno provato ad usare il #sorteggio per coinvolgere i cittadini e creare nuove istituzioni democratiche. È preoccupante che venga ora usato come strumento d'offesa nel contesto di uno scontro tra poteri dello stato. ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/05/29/sep…

Who unboxed it better? John Dryzek or Elton John? We're ending the week with a video of John's first ever unboxing video featuring his latest book Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times 😍 Shout out to co-author André Bächtiger Democracy Research University Stuttgart University of Canberra Business, Government & Law @ UC

Ahah this is a great academic unboxing. What a team! ❤️

It's the US publication day of my first book "Intelligent Democracy: Answering the new democratic Scepticism". Delighted it is finally out! Also grateful to have these blurbs from a great trio of scholars! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

🥁🥁We’re super excited to launch John Dryzek’s & André Bächtiger’s timely book (Cambridge University Press - Politics ) in collab w/ DemocracyNet | @[email protected])! ✨DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN DIABOLICAL TIMES✨ Chime in for a convo w/ the authors, Claudia Landwehr & Andrea Felicetti! ‼️REGO: rb.gy/lb8ytq)

Sometimes it takes patience to get great stuff done!

Part 2 of #GloCAN's June Seminar Series is all about governance. Featuring #GloCAN's co-lead Mel Ross and Flynn Devine. Chaired by Lucas H. N. Veloso. 📅13 June ⏰ 12:00 CEST All welcome. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

"Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency": a great piece by a brilliant research collective including Graham Smith Jordan Raine Duncan McLaren Jason Chilvers John Barry 🔥🌡️🔥 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New book: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory: Models, Methods, Misconceptions, by Antonino Palumbo link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

I attended an excellent workshop Comparative Federalism - Eurac Research. Interesting that great work on participatory and deliberative #democracy in #Italy is being done beyond #polsci largely in Italian only! Remarkable civil society work under way too like #spendiamolinsieme by ParliamentWatch.it

Democratization early view: Dahlberg and Mörkenstam on Exploring popular conceptions of democracy through media discourse: analysing dimensions of democracy from online media data in 93 countries using a distributional semantic model tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to moderate this collab 📚 launch of DemocracyNet | @[email protected] & Participatory & Deliberative Democracy @ PSA tmrw (11am BST/12am CET) w/2 of the greatest minds in #deliberative #theory + splendid discussants! ALL WELCOME—REGO STILL OPEN👇🏾 Andrea Felicetti Democracy Research University Stuttgart DelDemUCan Dr Jayne Carrick The Political Studies Association

This article opens w the recent destruction of a rice field in #Italy. It supports #GE of crops, yet it explains it's a thorny, contested issue. All Italian news on this event just criminalize attackers, adding nothing to a public debate we'd need to have shorturl.at/wqVgP