Things we have been working on... The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/… Deliberating Like a State journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Tyranny of the Majority: Implications of Direct Democracy for Oppressed Groups in Europe shop.budrich.de/en/product/tyr…

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Now also available as paperback and open access The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies | Democratic Innova (taylorfrancis.com)

My article "Deliberating Like a State" appears in the new issue of Political Studies. A short thread on what it’s about... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Check out our new project!

We are hiring Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: We have a new Professor position in Political Science, with a focus on Comparative Democracy Research in the European Multilevel System German call: uni-frankfurt.de/156833498.pdf English: academics.com/jobs/professor…

Excited about this upcoming conference of the #DemocraticInnovations program at Yale ISPS to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 British Columbia #citizensassembly. Major thanks to my post-doc Antonin Lacelle-Webster (on the market) for handling most of the organization!

To our friends in the APSA Democratic Innovations community 📢 Selen A. Ercan will present her paper 'Democracy after extremist attacks' in a panel on Media, Protest and Violence 📅 Saturday, 2-3.30pm 🏨 Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Franklin 3. Don't miss it ✨

Mark Warren, the president of APSA, delivers a talk about #DemocraticInnovations and Representative #Democracy, after being introduced by our very own Yale ISPS postdoctoral fellow @Antolw

My project to rethink the conceptual, ontological and methodological foundations for researching how people understand democracy was funded as an #ERCStG. Brief summary of the project here: rikkidean.com/poppie_announc… If interested in a postdoc/PhD next year, drop me an email.

Introducing our new research fellow, Szilvia Nagy, who has joined us from the Central European University to work on the INSPIRE project. Welcome Szilvi!

Hot off the press Direct democracy and equality: context is the key (2024) By Brigitte Geißel, Anna Krämling and Lars Paulus, In: Acta Politica, vol. 59, 916–940 link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Hot off the press! We wrote a policy paper for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on democratic innovations in Germany and their potential for inclusiveness and consequentiality. library.fes.de/pdf-files/pbud…

Kicking off the i4i project in Warsaw! 🎉Together with Paulina Pospieszna, Jean-Benoit Pilet, and their teams, we’ll explore the impacts of citizens’ assemblies and how their integration into the political system shapes these effects. Stay tuned for updates! More: i4i-project.com"

✅ Publication # 1 Congratulations to our PhD student @mendoza_olives on her first publication for her PhD. Learn more about the emotional costs of the uncritical promotion of resilience discourse here 👇 taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! Paulina Pospieszna is hiring a postdoc to work on our Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact project. Deadline is 21 November. Details of how to apply are on our website (scroll down to the We Are Hiring section): i4i-project.com

Hot off the press: Limited Congruence: Citizens’ Attitudes and Party Rhetoric About Referendums and Deliberative Practices cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov… By Sergiu Gherghina, Brigitte Geissel, Fabian Henger In Politics and Governance