Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça
Author Information
Edited by Selen A. Ercan, Professor of Political Science, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Hans Asenbaum, Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Nicole Curato, Professor of Political Sociology, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, and Ricardo F. Mendonça, Associate Professor of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Selen A. Ercan is a Professor of Political Science and Director at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her research interests include theory and practice of deliberative democracy, identity politics and multiculturalism, and alternative forms of political participation. Selen's work has been published in International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Policy and Politics, and Social Movement Studies, amongst others. She is the author of Mending Democracy: Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times (with Hendriks and Boswell; OUP, 2020); and the editor of Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice (with Elstub and Mendonça; Routledge, 2019).
Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra and holds a PhD from the University of Westminster. His research interests include identity and inclusion in new participatory spaces, digital politics, and feminist and gender theory. Hans' work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Communication Theory, and Politics & Gender. He is Co-convener of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association in the UK.
Nicole Curato is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the author of Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (OUP, 2019) and the editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. Her work examines how democratic innovations can take root in the aftermath of tragedies, including disasters, conflict, and urban crime.
Ricardo F. Mendonça is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and a Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Institute for Digital Democracy. He is the coordinator of Margem - Research Group on Democracy and Justice. He holds a fellowship from CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and a fellowship from Fapemig (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais). His research focuses on the theory and practice of democracy, political communication, and contentious politics. His publications include Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice (with Elstub and Ercan; Routledge, 2019), Introduction to Democratic Theory (with Cunha; UFMG, 2018), Online Deliberation in Brazil (with Sampaio and Barros; UDUFBA, 2016).
Contributors:
Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Selen A. Ercan is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.
André Bächtiger is Professor of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
John Boswell is Professor of Politics at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Tariq Choucair is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.
Nicole Curato is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Simone Chambers is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine, USA
Kiran Cunningham is Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College, USA and a Research Associate at Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, Uganda.
Eduardo Moreira da Silva is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Sebastian De Laile is an independent Data Scientist in Brisbane, Australia.
Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy.
Nicole Doerr is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stephen Elstub is a Reader in British Politics at Newcastle University, UK.
Oliver Escobar is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Academic Lead on Democratic Innovation at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Scotland.
Andrea Felicetti is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy.
Dannica Fleuß is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Communication at Dublin City University, Ireland.
Eléonore Fournier-Tombs is Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the Coordinator of the Research Chair on Accountable AI in a Global Context, Canada.
Núria Franco-Guillén is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK.
John Gastil is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science and a senior scholar at the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Marlène Gerber is Co-Director of Année Politique Suisse, the Swiss Political Yearbook, and Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Kimmo Grönlund is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
Carolyn M. Hendriks is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Australia.
Kaisa Herne is Professor of Political Science at Tampere University, Finland.
Silvio Salej Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Genevieve Fuji Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
James Johnson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, USA.
Raphaël Kies is a Senior Researcher at the University of Luxembourg and responsible for the Luxembourgish Platform of Participatory Democracy (CLDP), Luxembourg.
Jon Kingzette holds a PhD in Political Science from The Ohio State University and works as a data scientist for Campbell & Company in Chicago, USA.
Rousiley Celi Moreira Maia is Professor of Political Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Ricardo F. Mendonça is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and a Fellow at CNPq, Fapemig and INCT.DD.
Lala Muradova is Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Lillian Muyomba-Tamale is a governance expert specializing in decentralization, local government, and human rights at the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), Uganda.
Michael Neblo is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Communication, and Public Affairs and the Director of Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at the Ohio State University, USA.
Simon Niemeyer is Professor of Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Kei Nishiyama is Assistant Professor at Doshisha University, Faculty of Policy Studies, Japan.
John Parkinson is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Maastricht University, Netherlands.
Lucy J. Parry is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Australia and a Research Associate at Democratic Society, Belgium.
Jonathan Pickering is Assistant Professor in the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Gianfranco Pomatto is a Researcher at Ires Piemonte and Contract Professor in Public Policy at the University of Torino, Italy.
Antonio Carlos Andrade Ribeiro is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Organizational Theory at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil.
Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor Emerita at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, USA.
John Rountree is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA.
Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton, UK.
Mary (Molly) Scudder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, USA.
Paromita Sanyal is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, USA.
Paula Guimarães Simões is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Graham Smith is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK.
Hendrik Wagenaar is Senior Advisor to the International School for Government at King's College, London, UK, Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Australia.
Hannah Werner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the LEGIT Research Group on Democratic Legitimacy at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Francesco Veri is a Lecturer and Head of the 'New forms of participation in established democracies' project at the Centre for Democracy Studies in Aarau (ZDA), University of Zurich, Switzerland.
