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🥁🥁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 & @AndreaFelicetti! ‼️REGO: rb.gy/lb8ytq)

Initial analyses of 🇪🇺election results in 🇩🇪 seem to confirm stereotypes of left-behind and populist voting. But are people who are/feel left behind generally undemocratic? Vanessa Schwaiger presents new research on the link between obj & subj disadvantage and undemocratic attitudes💫

Huge congrats to Jan Anye Velimsky who's successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Perceptions of Representation of People in Precarious Living Conditions" 🥳🎓🥂 In it he explores the impact of political & social exclusion on long-term unemployed people 📊

Our very own @Anja_Rieker presented her innovative research on using constant sum and compositional data analysis to assess democratic preferences at #CoDaWork2024 in beautiful Girona! 🌟📊

When the official pre-party is hosted on campus 😅 Wishing everyone a fun and peaceful tournament in Germany! 🎉⚽

⏳Don’t miss out on this book launch co-organised w/ DemocracyNet | @[email protected] feat John Dryzek (DelDemUCan), André Bächtiger (Democracy Research University Stuttgart) —w/ Claudia Landwehr (Universität Mainz) & @AndreaFelicetti as discussants, moderated by @DannicaFleuss ALL INFO / REGO BELOW 👇🏾

Last week, André Bächtiger attended the summer retreat of the Düsseldorfer Institute for Internet and Democracy. It was an exciting event filled with inspiring discussions on the future of deliberative democracy 🤩✨

Greetings from Brussels! 🌞 We started off the week here by attending the General Assembly of the EuComMeet H2020 Project project and discussing results together.

Today happening at the European Committee of the Regions 🇪🇺 "Just transition and participatory democracy" - Lessons learned from the H2020 EuComMeet H2020 Project project.

Last week, our very own @JVrydagh attended #NOPSA in beautiful Bergen ☀️ He presented the next stage of our project "Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth": a novel setup on how to design future governance with and for citizens in the 21st century 💬✨️

Is democracy in crisis? Yesterday, students from the Cotta Gymnasium Stuttgart visited us to discuss the challenges facing democracy, what innovative solutions and reforms might look like on Mars 🚀and how they can contribute to shape the future of democracy✨

Summer dinner with our department 🥰 Wishing everyone a nice and relaxing semester break! ☀️

Today we met Swantje Sperling from the Landtag BW and talked with her about projects on local and state politics and citizen dialogue. We look forward to continuing and deepening the dialogue between politics and science! 🌻

🎶 "Bad Blood" between Trump supporters and #TaylorSwift? Our survey conducted before the #USElection2024 reveals some interesting divides! Trump supporters show significantly lower Swift fan levels than Harris supporters. Let's take a closer look at some fun data! 📊 🧵👇