Programme - 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School

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Table of Contents The 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School.................................................................................3 The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance .....................................................4 The Program at a Glance ...........................................................................................................................5 Plenary Sessions ..........................................................................................................................................6 Mentorship Sessions ..................................................................................................................................9 Reminders................................................................................................................................................... 11 Panels .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 The Speakers .............................................................................................................................................. 26 The Participants......................................................................................................................................... 38 Key Contacts............................................................................................................................................... 51

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The 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School The 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School brings together postgraduate students and early career researchers with leading scholars in the field. The three-day event provides a unique opportunity to discuss emerging themes, empirical findings and methodological innovations in deliberative democracy research. It is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas about the latest developments in the field, provide feedback on work-in-progress, and build a global network of deliberative democracy scholars.

Participants will present their work on a wide range of topics including – but not limited to – deliberative systems, mini-publics, social movements, transnational deliberation, non-human deliberation and feminist and decolonial deliberation.

The summer school is the flagship event of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Since its founding at our Centre in 2015, the summer school developed into an intercontinental collaboration co-hosted with Åbo Akademi University and the University of Turku in Finland. It is held every eighteen months, alternating between Canberra and Europe.

The 6th edition of this event will face current crises and raise big questions. We live in a time of global challenges including the climate emergency, pandemics and populism. Deliberative democracy leads the way towards mending and transforming societies. It inspires us to listen to fellow citizens and to nature. Deliberative transformations build the path towards democratic and sustainable futures.

#DelDem2024 @DelDemUCan

Hans Asenbaum Summer school convener

Olivia Mendoza Summer school assistant

Ferdinand Sanchez II Summer school assistant

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The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance

The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG) is the world-leading unit for scholarly and applied research in deliberative governance and democratic innovations. We are based in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra.

Our researchers bring together diverse fields of expertise, and collectively we advance a common research agenda that examines how deliberation can empower people to shape political decisions that affect their lives. We examine the ways in which political deliberation and discourse can be reasonable, reflective, and inclusive, and share these aspirations in both our research and teaching practices.

You can follow us on Twitter @DelDemUCan and on LinkedIn.

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The Program at a Glance 8:30-9:00 9:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 12:30-13:30 13:30-15:00 15:00-15:30 15:30-17:00 18:00-19:00 19:00-21:00

7 February (Wed) Arrival Opening ceremony Break Keynote lecture Lunch Panels 1 and 2 Break Roundtable 1: Impact

8 February (Thu) Arrival Roundtable 2: Future Break Panels 3 and 4 Lunch Panels 5 and 6 Break WS 1: Methods café Museum of Australian Democracy tour Summer School Dinner

9 February (Fri) Arrival WS 2: Meet the editors Break Panel 7 and 8 Lunch Panel 9 Break Roundtable 3: Reflection 18:30 | 10 Years CDDGG @ UC Celebration

Venue All activities will take place at the Ann Harding Conference Centre (Building 24) at the University of Canberra. Address: 24 University Drive South, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia.

Pre-summer school activities Feel free to drop in at the Centre to familiar yourself with the place on 6th February during the day. On the evening of the 6th, we will hold the public event, Democratic Transformations: A Conversation on System Change. All welcome. Find more information and register here.

Registration Please arrive at 8:30 on 7 February to register and claim your badge at the lobby of Building 24. Tea and coffee will be served.

Summer School Dinner The Summer School Dinner will be held on Thursday, 8 February, at Courtyard Café at the Old Parliament House at 19:00. Address: Old Parliament House, 18 King George Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600, Australia.

Museum of Australian Democracy Tour Before the Summer School Dinner, we will meet at the Museum of Australian Democracy on 8 February at 18:00 for a 45-minute guided after-hours tour. The tour will take participants into the museum spaces, where they will explore the ideas, people, and events of Australian democracy. The trip to the museum is self-organised. Address: 18 King George Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600, Australia.

10th Anniversary Celebration The summer school will end with a party on 9 February at 18:30 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. The trip to the party venue is self-organized. Address: Mama Dough Beer Garden at Edgar's, 1 Edgar St, Ainslie ACT 2602.

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Plenary Sessions Opening Ceremony Wednesday, 7 February, 9:00-10:30 The Faculty of Business, Government and Law’s Executive Dean, Uwe Dulleck, and Summer School Convenor, Hans Asenbaum, officially open the event.

John Dryzek reflects on the development of the field of deliberative democracy from its emergence to current trends.

Chaired by Selen A. Ercan

Ngaladjimas Gardens Tour As part of the opening ceremony, we will head to Ngaladjimas Gardens, which are situated on campus. Indigenous scholars Paul Collis and Wayne Applebee will give a short tour of the native plant collection and “root” the summer school in Australian First Nations heritage.

Keynote lecture: Democratic Equality and Structural Injustice: From Deliberative Democracy to Abolition-Democracy?

Melissa Williams in conversation with Nicole Curato Wednesday, 7 February, 11:00-12:30 An important critique of deliberative democratic theory is that it provides insufficient leverage against unequal power relations in societies characterised by systemic injustices such as structural racism or settler colonial domination. This lecture will introduce “abolitiondemocracy,” an idea first articulated by W.E.B. Du Bois, as a conception of democracy that aims specifically at achieving political equality under conditions of structural injustice.

Distilling the constitutive features of abolition-democracy and distinguishing two conceptions of it, the lecture will conclude with reflections about the relationship between abolitiondemocracy and deliberative democracy.

Chaired by John Dryzek

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Roundtable 1: The Impacts of Deliberative Scholarship Wednesday, 7 February, 15:30-17:00 This roundtable invites summer school participants to reflect critically on the purpose and impact of our research on deliberative democracy. Should academics be advocates for deliberative forms of citizen engagement or should we step back as objective observers of deliberative democracy in action? What counts as meaningful impact in deliberative scholarship?

Speakers ▪ Brigitte Geissel ▪ Melisa Ross ▪ Rikki Dean ▪ Jordan McSwiney Chaired by Jane Alver

Roundtable 2: The Future of Deliberative Democracy Thursday, 8 February, 9:00-10:30 This roundtable discusses the potential futures both of the practice as well as the scholarly field of deliberative democracy. How can democracy be “future-proofed”? How can nonhuman animals and AI be included in democracy? Are we currently witnessing a “postmodel” turn and how will deliberative democracy be affected?

Speakers ▪ Maija Setälä ▪ Frederic Hanusch ▪ Ricardo Mendonça Chaired by Adele Webb Workshop 1: Methods Café Thursday, 8 February, 15:30-17:00 Drawing on the open access book Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy, this world café format will allow participants to learn about a broad variety of methods to study deliberative democracy.

Speakers ▪ Molly Scudder: Deliberative Listening Index ▪ Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça: Frame Analysis ▪ Carolyn Hendriks: Dramaturgical Analysis ▪ Jonathan Pickering: Process Tracing Chaired by Selen A. Ercan SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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Workshop 2: Meet the Editors Friday, 9 February, 9:00-10:30 How to publish your first journal article? This workshop will provide practical tips on how to frame an article and get it through peer review. Editors from generalist and specialist journals in democracy research and political studies will give insights into their editorial practice and answer participants questions.

Speakers ▪ Hans Asenbaum, Journal of Deliberative Democracy ▪ Jean-Paul Gagnon, Democratic Theory ▪ Jordan McSwiney, Australian Journal of Political Science Chaired by Nicole Curato

Roundtable 3: Closing Reflections Friday, 9 February, 15:30-17:00 What where the highlights and what are the key learnings from the summer school? Speakers will share their reflections, take stock and look ahead. A graphic recorder will visualize these reflections.

Speakers ▪ Edana Beauvais ▪ PerOla Öberg ▪ Daniel Kübler ▪ Mikko Leino Chaired by Hans Asenbaum

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Mentorship Sessions These sessions match summer school participants with a mentor who will provide advice on specific challenges mentees face while working on their individual projects, as well as on navigating the field of deliberative democracy and academia more broadly. This is an informal session so participants and mentors may decide on the topics and structure of the session.

Please self-organise your mentoring session during one of the lunch breaks or outside of the summer school hours.

Before the conference, participants should email their mentor about their objectives for the mentorship session. Objectives may include a range of issues defined by the mentees.

Mentee

Mentor

Seraphine Arnold

Ricardo Mendonça

Bryan Lee Celeste

Melissa Williams

Noemi Cipriano

Selen A. Ercan

Wendy Conway-Lamb

Maija Setälä

Roger Davis

PerOla Öberg

Maria Fernanda Diaz Vidal

Molly Scudder

Hong Do

John Dryzek

Madeleine Egan

Brigitte Geissel

Hannah Forde

Edana Beauvais

Iñaki Goñi

Jean-Paul Gagnon

Daragh Hamilton

Melissa Ross

Anne Jedzini

PerOla Öberg

Raj Kaithwar

Frederic Hanusch

Charles Ladia

Adele Webb

Nadine Malmberg Hollmann

Rikki Dean

Joanna Massie

Jane Alver

Olivia Mendoza

Melissa Williams

Phoebe Quinn

Jonathan Pickering

Emanuela Savini

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Vanessa Schwaiger

Brigitte Geissel

Erik Severso

Mikko Leino

Magni Szymaniak-Arnesen

Carolyn Hendriks

Zelalem Tesfaye

Nicole Curato

Nivek Thompson

Daniel Kübler

Lucas Veloso

Edana Beauvais

Pragya Yadav

Daniel Kübler

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Reminders At the Summer School, we aim to practice the democratic values we cherish. We nourish a culture of equality and invitation. To counter societal and academic hierarchies, please, reflect on the privileges you may hold. Practice humility, give others space, welcome, invite, and connect.

Reminders to paper presenters, chairs, and discussants •

Paper presenters are required to send their papers to their discussants and Olivia Mendoza before 20 January. All papers are available through the Summer School Web Page which is only accessible to participants in the summer school. Paper presenters have 12 to 15 minutes to present their papers. Please, make sure to stick to this timing.

PowerPoint or other slides are welcome but not required. Paper presenters must load their slides to the computer during the break before the session starts.

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Discussants have 8 to 10 minutes to comment on all the papers on the panel. Papers will be available through the Summer School Web Page by 20 January. We invite you to give constructive actionable feedback. Your role is to open the discussion. Ask one or two questions to each paper presenter that may stimulate debate. Detailed feedback is welcome and should be sent via email.

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Chairs are tasked with hosting, keeping time and moderating the discussion. All participants will present their papers, followed by comments from the discussant.

Presenters have 12 to 15 minutes and discussants 8 to 10 minutes in total. The remaining time is allocated for questions and comments from the audience.

Meals and Events •

Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided throughout the summer school. We will serve an all-vegetarian menu and will cater to various dietary requirements. Please let Olivia Mendoza know if you have specific dietary requirements.

Tech facilities • •

Eduroam WiFi is available in the conference centre.

Please bring your own slides on a stick, adapter, and pointer (if needed).

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Social media • •

Please use the hashtag #DDSS24 and tag @DelDemUCan Please let Ferdinand Sanchez know if you prefer not to be mentioned on social media posts.

Photos • •

Photographs will be taken throughout the event. Images will be used in our website, social media, and summer school and annual reports.

Please let Ferdinand Sanchez know if you prefer not to be photographed.

A low-carbon-impact event • •

We aim to reduce the carbon footprint of all our events. We are not printing programs or other conference materials. All meals are vegetarian, except the conference dinner.

We can print materials on demand. Please approach any CDDGG PhD student or staff member if you need to print.

Childcare •

If you need any childcare support, please get in touch with Olivia Mendoza ahead of the summer school, so that we can explore possible arrangements.

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Panels Panel 1: Digital Democracy Time and Date: 7 February, Wednesday, 13:30 – 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room 1 Chair: Jordan McSwiney Discussant: Ricardo Mendonça Democratic Deliberation and Technology: Which is the Answer, Which is the Question?

Iñaki Goñi, University of Edinburgh Calls for democratising technology are pervasive in current innovation discourse. Indeed, participating publics have been mobilised as a core normative aspiration in STS based on the critique of "expertise". In a sense, democratic engagement became the knee-jerk response to the question of legitimising emerging technologies' development and regulation. Calls for technifying democracy are pervasive in engagement discourse. This stems from the challenge of expanding deliberation while upholding the high-quality standards characteristic of wellorchestrated democratic innovations. Moreover, NLP has provided novel alternatives for systematising large-scale participation, automated moderation and engaging access to information. In a sense, emerging digital technologies became the knee-jerk response to the question of how to lower the barriers of deliberation and allow distributed governance. In this presentation, I will explore the mutual shaping of deliberative democracy and digital technology, highlighting that without careful consideration, both risks being reduced to superficial symbols in discourses inclined towards quick solutionism.

Crowdsourcing Consensus for Climate and Disaster Resilience: An Exploration of the Use of Civic Technology for Agenda-Setting at Scale Phoebe Quinn, University of Melbourne This doctoral research is exploring the use of new forms of civic technology for scaling up deliberation, through case studies of contentious climate- and disaster-related issues in Australia. It primarily focuses on the online platform Polis, a leading example of an emerging class of ‘collective intelligence systems’ which have been heralded for their potential to support mass deliberation along with other democratic ideals, through innovations in computing and interface design. Yet despite widespread and increasing use of Polis internationally, including in Taiwan’s mainstream democratic processes and in recent artificial intelligence governance initiatives, there has been very little academic research into the use of such tools. Through mixed methods action-research, this PhD examines the extent to which deliberative ideals can be supported through the integration of such tools within collective agenda-setting processes for climate and disaster resilience, and explores insights and implications for deliberative democracy more broadly.

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Democracy and (Mis)understanding in the Digital Age Erik Severso, The University of British Columbia Democracy, simply, requires the capacity to do things together. This capacity is often argued to rest on the existence of some sort of shared understanding – what I call a common world.

The idea of the common world, however, is problematic in the contemporary age; it can be anti-pluralist and hegemonic. Further, given the newfound ability for the infrastructures of the digital arena to shape interaction and therefore understanding, the contemporary age may be defined more by fragmentation than by commonality. I thus argue in this paper that democratic theory requires a re-examination and reconceptualization of the common world idea. I do so by discussing three 20th century theorists who, I argue, establish the idea as paradigmatic – Habermas, Arendt, and Dewey. While their arguments for shared understanding remain relevant, the future of democracy may also depend on accommodating the contemporary era’s propensity for misunderstanding.

Panel 2: Deliberative Democracy and Local Governments Time and Date: 7 February, Wednesday, 13:30 – 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room 2 Chair: Adele Webb Discussant: Brigitte Geissel Can Deliberative Engagement Practices ‘Revitalise Democracy’? A Study of the Victorian Local Government Act 2020 Emanuela Savini, University of Technology Sydney As part of the ‘deliberative wave’ which has occurred over the past few decades, there has been increased interest in the institutionalisation of practices through regulatory frameworks, thereby embedding citizen participation in the formal structures of government decision-making. The Victorian Local Government Act 2020 can be considered one such attempt at institutionalising practices. It mandated councils deliver ‘deliberative engagement’ for their strategic planning, with legislators suggesting this would 'revitalise democracy' by putting ‘the community at the heart of council decision-making’. This paper presents findings from case study research based on the operationalisation of this legislation. It found that in the absence of an agreed set of principles or standards, the interpretation of deliberative engagement practices was reliant on each organisation’s own imperatives. Furthermore, in the process of sense-making, how the legislation was implemented was shaped by both organisational drivers and dominant discourses which rendered practices susceptible to co-option.

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A Comparative Analysis of Local Citizens’ Assemblies in Poland: Setting the Remit and the Impact on Public Policies Magni Szymaniak-Arnesen, Adam Mickiewicz University Since 2015, twelve semi-binding citizens’ assemblies (CAs) have been organized in major cities across Poland, being presented as a novel and non-partisan way of democratic decision-making. However, research has been raising questions about CA’s actual potential for strengthening the democratic legitimacy of public policy-making, highlighting the need to identify the conditions that enhance their effectiveness. The theory has been pointing to the formulation of a minipublic’s remit as one of the main determinants of its impacts on policies. However, empirical studies examining that are still lacking. The presented PhD research project aims to fill this gap by empirically and comparatively analyzing the selected CA cases to gain insights into the motivations and processes guiding scope-setting, and the scope’s consequences for the outcomes and for the policy impacts of these minipublics.

Methods will include interviews with actors involved in carrying out minipublics and analysis of CAs’ recommendations and policy documents.

Unpacking Power in Democratic Innovations: A Systematic Review of How Councillors Share Power in Australian Local Governments Anne Jedzini, University of Canberra This article aims to theorise and conceptualise ‘deliberative power-sharing’ in democratic innovations in Australian local governments. I argue that we need a nuanced understanding of how councillors share power with community members. I build this argument in two parts. First, I make the case of understanding power by combining Rainer Forst’s concept of noumenal power and Mary Parker Follett’s concept of power-with. Second, I present the findings of my systematic review of how power is shared in democratic innovations in 34 Australian local governments catalogued in the Participedia database. I found that there are four ways councillors share power with community members: (1) Deliberative powersharing, (2) the sharing of power with deliberation, (3) power-sharing with deliberative elements, and (4) deliberation with limited to no sharing of power. This article has significance because of its pragmatic approach to conceptualising and operationalising the sharing of power in democratic innovations in Australian local governments.

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Panel 3: Deliberative Mini-publics Time and Date: 8 February, Thursday, 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Seminar Room 1 Chair: Adele Webb Discussant: Molly Scudder Roads to Minipublic Success: Exploring Pathways to Uptake Based on a New Dataset of Deliberative Minipublics Seraphine Arnold, University of Stuttgart While the public use of deliberative minipublics on the rise around the globe, the issue of minipublic consequentiality is contested and under-researched. I introduce a new dataset based on the Participedia platform, enhanced by an “observer survey” updating missing information. The databank comprises around 150 minipublic cases at the national and regional level in Great Britain, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark and Finland as well as the European level (2000-2021). I explore whether there is a “top-down” or “bottom-up” road to minipublic success, i.e. whether minipublic uptake – defined as full, partial or no implementation of recommendations - only happens when minipublics are organized topdown, are designed for policy appraisal and align with the preferences of political elites (“topdown” road) or whether uptake also happens when some procedural features are more bottom-up (bottom-up organization, allowance for policy development and non-alignment with elite preferences). My findings clearly point in direction of a top-down road of success.

Do Mini Publics Reflect the Mass Public? Patterns of Participation for Deliberative Mini Publics Joanna Massie, McMaster University To understand the claim that deliberative mini publics (DMPs) attract a representative mini public, I analyze the extent to which citizens who express willingness to volunteer for a DMP – specifically a Citizens’ Assembly - are representative of the wider population. I analyze response data from two primary sources: population surveys, in which people were asked about interest in participating; and over a decade of actual response data from a Canadian DMP convenor. I seek to understand factors that contribute to (un)willingness to participate, as well as who does (does not) respond positively to an actual invite to participate in a deliberative policy-making process. I also aim to elucidate trends in participation over the last decade, including variables such as method of invite (email versus mail), level of government, and topic. From triangulating these data, I explore steps that can be taken by practitioners to further enhance recruitment processes.

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Deliberative Democracy: Institutions and Institutionalization Nivek Thompson, University of Technology Sydney There is growing academic and practical interest in the design of institutions to deliver deliberative democracy in the real world. In addition, the institutionalisation of deliberative processes is considered a valuable goal to move from ad hoc deliberative processes to creating a permanent ecosystem of deliberation. Despite this growing focus on institutions and institutionalisation, the discussion of these two concepts generally ignores the extensive body of literature and theory on what institutions are and what institutionalisation means. In my dissertation, I used institutional theory as one part of my analytical framework, alongside democratic functions, to assess how deliberative mini-publics can contribute to the quality of democracy. In considering institutional theory, I adopted the approach referred to as the third wave of institutionalism, which identifies three modes by which institutions are constrained and enabled: rules, practices, and narratives. By taking this approach, the nature of institutions, beyond simply practices, and the relationship between these different modes can be identified and assessed. In my research, it was clear that looking beyond practices and considering how these modes interact can enhance our understanding of how deliberative mini-publics deliver as a democratic innovation. The potential for these modes to both support and undermine each other is particularly important for designers of deliberative democracy institutions and those attempting to institutionalise them. Using concepts from institutional theory also allows a clearer picture of the difference between the use of deliberative processes for purely instrumental reasons and their use to (also) enhance democracy.

Panel 4: Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change Time and Date: 8 February, Thursday, 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Seminar Room 2 Chair: John Dryzek Discussant: Frederic Hanusch

The Irish Climate Assembly (ICA): Lessons from the Parliamentary Consideration of Citizens’ Climate Recommendations Daragh Hamilton, Central European University This paper examines the policy impact of Ireland's climate assembly (ICA). While Ireland has been a pioneer in institutionalizing successive deliberative processes to much acclaim, there has been a dearth of empirical research on the consideration of ICA recommendations by the receiving body - the Parliamentary Committee on Climate Action (PCCA). In drawing upon indepth qualitative analysis, the study reveals that perceived issues with the assembly process – with regards to representation, agenda-setting, and expert bias - influenced PCCA actors' (i.e., politicians, advisors, and expert contributors) responses to ICA proposals, including the controversial carbon tax (CT) and carbon taxes on agricultural emissions (CTAE). In doing so, it illuminates how the PCCA played an important role in counteracting ICA process-issues.

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Overall, it questions the over-simplified narrative surrounding the ICA’s “success” and its capacity to deal with controversial issues. Hence, the findings have important implications for future climate assemblies at the national level.

A Deliberative System Approach to Democratizing Global Climate Adaptation Governance Wendy Conway-Lamb, University of Canberra If the governance of climate change adaptation is to be effective and just, it must meaningfully include the people most affected by climate impacts, while assigning responsibility to those most responsible for the problem. Yet the international system is not democratic, and millions of those most vulnerable to climate change live in non-democratic countries. In this paper, which forms the conceptual framework chapter of my PhD thesis, I propose conceptualizing global adaptation governance as a deliberative system. After reviewing existing literature that characterizes climate mitigation governance as a deliberative system, I set out key desiderata for a more democratic conceptualization of global adaptation governance. Challenges include delineating the system’s boundaries, accommodating plurality, and attributing agency to those most affect-ed. I then show how, with some modifications, a deliberative system conceptual framework can fulfil these desiderata. I conclude with reflections on applying this framework to Vietnam, a highly climate-vulnerable authoritarian country.

Panel 5: Deliberative Policymaking Time and Date: 8 February, Thursday, 13:30 – 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room 1 Chair: Jean-Paul Gagnon Discussant: PerOla Öberg Public Support for Food Subsidy and Tax Scenarios to Improve the Health and Environmental Outcomes of Food: Findings from the COPPER Project Deliberative Forums in the UK, 2023 Hannah Forde, University of Oxford Implementing polices that decrease (subsidy) or increase (taxes) the price of foods could make healthier, environmentally sustainable diets more affordable, but they are controversial to implement. Deliberative methods are particularly useful for understanding competing viewpoints on contentious topics. We held two, two-day long deliberative forums in October 2023 in Glasgow and Bridlington, UK, to understand which food subsidies or taxes the public thought the government should implement. Participants watched five expert evidence videos related to food and health, the environment, economics, policymaking and public support for policies. In total, 24 people participated (Glasgow, n=13; Bridlington, n=11). In Glasgow, participants most preferred a fruit and vegetable subsidy, a subsidy on low carbon foods, and a tax on high carbon foods; and in Bridlington participants most preferred a tax on less healthy foods combined with a subsidy on healthy foods. Our study provides evidence to inform fiscal policy decisions about food.

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Participating in and Deliberating about Safety: Understanding Citizenship Involvement in Chilean Local Public Security Policies Maria Fernanda Diaz Vidal, University of Edinburgh My presentation aims to understand citizens' involvement in the production of public security policies in Chile. Specifically, I aim to comprehend the participation and deliberation of citizens in the policies addressing the safety issues citizens deal with in their territories. I do that by drawing on the concept of governance, a comprehension of public policies based on social interaction and a systemic understanding of deliberative democracy. In the context of the governance mechanisms that shape public policies in security, I expect to offer a better description of the processes through which citizens' opinions, emotions and actions - and from whom, to what extent and with what effect - are included in the production of safety policies.

Does Risk of Service Decline Increase Political Support Towards Coproduction? Results of a Factorial Survey Experiment Nadine Malmberg Hollmann, Aarhus University For decades, researchers have emphasized coproduction initiatives as an often-used public sector strategy to uphold service quality in times of potential service decline due to fiscal pressure and resource scarcity. As many western welfare states currently face resource pressure due to changing demographics and future prospects of modest economic growth, the discussion of coproduction as public sector strategy is of increasing relevance. However, in the recurring discussions of coproduction as often-used public sector strategy to uphold service quality in times of potential service decline lies a central assumption that risk of service decline stimulates support of public sector decision makers towards coproduction. In this study, we test the central assumption in coproduction literature that risk of service decline matters to decision maker support towards coproduction initiatives by using a preregistered two-by-two factorial survey experiment on Danish local council members.

Panel 6: Reinventing Democracy Time and Date: 8 February, Thursday, 13:30 – 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room 2 Chair: Nicole Curato Discussant: Rikki Dean De/territorialization in Assemblages: Negotiating the Space between Anthropocentric and Ecological Democratic Assemblages Raj Kaithwar, University of New South Wales Assemblage theory has played a major role in revealing the hidden presence of non-humans in political analysis. It has offered expansive descriptions of how relations between human and nonhuman – beings and things – have produced material and discursive realities.

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Participatory and deliberative democracy scholarship has utilized it to either empirically describe or normatively envision democratic assemblages. This paper intervenes to address the space between empirical descriptions and normative visions of democratic assemblages.

By returning to Deleuze and Guattari, the paper argues that an assemblage is produced in a specific context of power relations that selects its constituent elements, accepting some and discarding others. However, an assemblage is constantly undergoing the process of de/territorialization, both material and discursive, that stabilizes and destabilizes it over space and time. The paper contends that to attain/establish ecological democratic assemblages, it is essential to identify and harness the forces of deterritorialization in anthropocentric democratic assemblages.

Innovative Design, Unforeseen Vulnerabilities: Challenges in the Global Assembly Lucas Veloso, The Federal University of Minas Gerais

Design-Induced

Citizens' assemblies are gaining prominence in global policymaking as platforms for enhancing citizen engagement, but their complex designs risk exacerbating political inequalities. The paper examines the inaugural Global Assembly, highlighting how its design and demands unintentionally fostered participatory vulnerabilities. Adopting a feminist perspective, we explore the experiences of assembly members who faced disproportionate challenges but also demonstrated resilient strategies in response. Our study, grounded in normative and constructivist theories and encompassing in-depth interviews, identifies environmental factors, personal circumstances, and resource access as key determinants of design-induced participatory vulnerabilities. Recommendations for future transnational and digital assemblies are presented considering the disadvantages and adaptive strategies developed by the assembly members to resiliently persist in their participatory journey.

The Interplay of Objective Group Affiliations and Subjective Feelings of Recognition and their Influence on Democratic Preferences Vanessa Schwaiger, University of Stuttgart In times of democratic backsliding, traditional divides such as the urban-rural divide as well as subjective feelings such as deprivation are gaining prominence in research on democratic preferences. In my dissertation I want to connect both “objective” forms of underrepresentation and “subjective” feelings of being unseen and unheard as well as analyze their influence on democratic preferences. Using an innovative approach, I will analyze how groups that are and/or feel unheard and unseen would design their ideal democracy when (1) they receive information and arguments about different governance models and are asked to reflect on their choices; and (2) when such groups are confronted with different conditions under which the democracy is designed, namely a “veil of ignorance” without knowing what their status will be and without any path-dependent constraints (“Mars”) or when such groups are asked to rethink democratic institutions within path-dependent country contexts (“Earth”).

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Panel 7: Legitimacy, Accountability and Constitution-making Time and Date: 9 February, Friday, 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Seminar Room 1 Chair: Jordan McSwiney Discussant: Maija Setälä Deliberative Constitution-Making: A View from the Public Sphere Madeleine Egan, University of Canberra Deliberative constitution-making has been described as a kind of public conversation in which the locus of deliberation on constitutional principles is the public sphere (Chambers 2018, 257). So what does this kind of public conversation look like? In practice, citizens’ right to participate in constitution-making is well-established as a democratic norm. However, recent constitution-making in Chile (2019 -) and Iceland (2008 -) show how constituent processes often channel citizens’ participation via institutional mechanisms, rather than fostering inclusive debate in the public sphere. In this presentation, I ask what we can learn from those who have taken part in the public conversation. I draw on interviews with Icelandic and Chilean citizens who have participated in constitution-making informally— whether through social movements, protest, art, or everyday talk. I will explore what their experiences and insight can teach us about deliberative constitution-making and the kinds of public conversation it requires.

What Do Legitimate International Institutions Owe to Citizens in Nondemocratic Countries?

Hong Do, Central European University Not much research on international legitimacy is written from the perspectives of ordinary citizens in non-democratic countries. Unlike citizens in democratic countries, they are not represented symmetrically in domestic politics and cannot hold their state representatives accountable. Therefore, this article aims to examine the fundamental interest of individuals from non-democratic countries in international politics and sketch a conception of international legitimacy. I argue that a legitimate international institution must allow citizens in non-democratic countries having their fundamental interests directly reflected. This is the interest of adequate participation in international decision-making processes. Thus, the conception of international legitimacy that satisfies this requirement is the deliberative conception which grants direct participation opportunity to individuals using random selection. The image that I have in mind is bringing individuals from non-democratic and democratic countries to sit in the same room and deliberate with each other about the global problems that directly and profoundly affect their well-being.

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Deliberative Model of Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Validity: Empirically Unravelling their Nexus in the Context of Indian Parliamentary Debates (2004-2020) Pragya Yadav, National Law School of India University This research delves into the state of deliberative democracy in the Indian Parliament, scrutinizing changes under the two regimes from 2004 to 2020. Despite the crucial role of political institutions in democracy, concerns arise from a noticeable decline in deliberative quality, participation levels, and autonomy during parliamentary proceedings. Its empirical approach aims to determine the conditions for high-quality discourse and assess its consequences for policy out-comes, while addressing the nuances of deliberative politics. This study, focusing on 10 specific bills, employs a three-stage research design. The first stage involves a qualitative content analysis of Lok Sabha debates, the second stage utilizes Qualitative Comparative Analysis to interpret causal relationships. The third stage evaluates passed bills based on constitutional values. Emphasizing legal and constitutional provisions, the research contributes to understanding the unique challenges posed by Indian democracy to Western liberal democratic theory.

Panel 8: Indigenous Deliberative Democracy Time and Date: 9 February, Friday, 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Seminar Room 2 Chair: Jonathan Pickering Discussant: Melissa Williams The Making of Indigeneity: The Role of The State, Tribal Council and Grassroots Mobilisers Bryan Lee Celeste, The University of Newcastle (Australia) Indigeneity is always in the making. But who defines indigeneity? What does indigeneity mean for Indigenous Peoples? How do various forms of power and resistance shape the notion of indigeneity among Indigenous Peoples? In this paper, I discuss the role of different social actors such as the State, the Tribal Council of Elders, Manobo Youth, and Indigenous activists/rights advocates in the “making of indigeneity”. I focus on the Manobo-Pulanguiyén as one of the Indigenous cultural communities in Southern Philippines. I present various ways the Manobo-Pulanguiyen respond to the institutionalized form of indigeneity and assert Indigenous voice through multiple forms of political performances, grassroots indigeneity making, resistance, and micropolitics in everyday life. I contend that grassroots indigeneity and Indigenous power are critical components in the fight for self-determination, cultural recognition, social equality, justice, and social reforms.

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Deliberative Community: The Gadaa Assembly, Deliberative Democracy, and Social Capital in Ethiopia Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna, Addis Ababa University This paper explores the nature of the liberal deliberative democracy – from the perspective of the “epistemologies of the South”. To further substantiate this approach, the case of Gadaa Assembly, the legislative branch of the Gadaa government of the indigenous Oromo people of East Africa, is taken as empirical evidence proving the Oromo – as a deliberative community.

The Gadaa Assembly takes place once every eight years for two to three consecutive weeks, and the assembly passes decisions that reflect the socio-economic, political and environmental dynamics of the people. In particular, it analyzes how the Gadaa deliberative system works in building a deliberative community. The paper finds that, deliberation is an art of a society, and performances rooted in the culture that awaits cultivation. Drawing lessons from the empirical findings, it provides seven procedural imperatives for the efficacy of a deliberation.

Rethinking Australian Democracy Roger Davis, University of Canberra This paper examines the relationship between Australia’s Indigenous and settler colonial systems of democracy through the lens of deliberative systems theory. It suggests the ongoing effects of colonialism have rendered Indigenous democracy largely invisible causing a harmful divide in Australia’s democracies. A pluralist conception of democracy is necessary to understand the disconnect between the two systems, evidenced by a striking absence of literature on Australian Indigenous democracy. In response, this paper first theorises a conceptual framework of a dual deliberative system, then describes the pre-colonial Indigenous deliberative system and the colonial system’s efforts to eliminate Indigenous democracy. Against this theoretical and empirical background, it examines the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, to consider the extent the Voice remains colonial or points towards a shared post-colonial democratic future.

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Panel 9: Gendered and Embodied Resistance Time and Date: 9 February, Friday, 13:30 – 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room 2 Chair: Selen A. Ercan Discussant: Edana Beauvais The Filipino LGBTQI+ Community, Pride Marches, and Oplan Bakla (Gay): Gendered Resistance as Performance of Dissent and Deliberation in Leni Robredo’s Presidential Campaign Charles Ladia, University of the Philippines Diliman The 2022 presidential campaign of former Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo, the lone female candidate, revolved around resistance against strongman authorities – the influence of populist Rodrigo Duterte and the return of the Marcos family in Malacañang. Without a well-oiled political machinery, her pink campaign banked on support from grassroots volunteer groups including LGBTQ+ organizations. With them came repertoires of contention both familiar and novel to local campaign rhetoric in the past years. This paper inquires: How do gendered repertoires in the Leni Robredo presidential campaign reveal the strategy and struggles for dissent and deliberation of the LGBTQ+ community in the Philippines? This study mapped actions employed and performed by LGBTQ+ volunteers in campaigning for Robredo.

These ranged from offline traditional events like pride marches and drag performances, and ceremonial documents like covenants and manifestos to digital repertoires like curating and uploading viral videos. Traditional repertoires served as performances of solidarity and (in)visibility where volunteers converged in public spaces to garner public attention and support. Digital repertoires, on the other hand, transformed queer bodies into digital identities aiming to extend the reach of the campaign but also maximize these spaces for contention. In a country where LGBTQ+ rights are contested, these gendered repertoires aim not only to shape public opinion on Robredo but also, to assert spaces for their gendered advocacy and deliberation. These repertoires are performed and gendered as they introduced a new way of protesting, campaigning, and deliberating and of defying gendered expectations.

Emotions and Democratic Theory Olivia Mendoza, University of Canberra In my paper, I present the outlines of my study on Filipino emotional repertoire and the ways in which these are expressed, transmitted, and amplified in online political discussions and debates. I argue that for the deliberative ideals of inclusion, diversity and listening to take root in the Philippines, the deliberation processes in between elections should target affective indigestion, alienation and dismissal, and work towards building enabling affective economies.

The study is animated by the question: what roles do emotions play in realizing the emancipatory promise of deliberative democracy? Democratic theorists and practitioners are concerned with emotions since in many cases they drive group polarization, bullying, hate speech and the pathologizing of public support for specific electoral candidates. I take seriously this complex relationship of emotions to political participation in an age of disinformation, impunity, and social inequality, by asking what it means to be “‘capable agents’ SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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who are able to diagnose their political problems and intervene to improve their situations” (Hammond 2019, 801 in Ercan et al., 2022, 7). I look into to the conditions for meaningful political participation in the Philippines and how these are complicated by exclusions, marginalization, illegitimate decision-making, or harms in the affective level, using data from online engagements. I examine the feeling rules and the social identity power dynamics that are embodied, enacted, and enforced in Facebook and Twitter trends and mainstream news.

The empirical study will be informed by the growing area of feminist philosophy that deals with political emotions and affective economies and democratic theory’s increasing openness to feminist thought. In this way, I offer my contribution to the feminist critique of political communication by providing an empirically grounded account of Filipino political emotions online.

Inside Inclusive Communication in Participatory-Deliberative Arena Noemi Cipriano, Scuola Normale Superiore Is it possible to think of direct solutions that promote inclusiveness, exploiting non-verbal or creative forms of communication? Could this lead to enrichment in terms of inclusiveness and strengthening of deliberation? In order to consider communication in its multidimensionality, my goal is to bring new knowledge on the potential that a more (non-logocentric) communication can bring in terms of inclusiveness within deliberative experiments.

Specifically, considering the relational interaction that characterizes deliberative processes, I would like to understand whether communication forms belonging to the language of the senses (body, sounds, images) can help marginal actors to feel directly more included and involved. With the aim of deepen the possible ways of inclusion inside participatorydeliberative experiments, my aim of research is to provide new analytical tools as well as empirical and experimental examples aimed at overcoming the obstacle of communication inequalities in the broad sphere of social marginality.

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The Speakers Jane Alver University of Canberra Dr Jane Alver is a gender and civil society specialist. Prior to joining the Centre for Environmental Governance at the University of Canberra, Jane's experience included the Director of Effectiveness and Engagement at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and the Associate Research Program Manager (Gender) at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).

Email: jane.alver@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @Janealver

Wayne Applebee University of Canberra Wayne Applebee is a senior lecturer in Indigenous Specialisation in the University of Canberra Health Faculty. He is a Kamilaroi man that has never lived on “country”.

As part of the Aboriginal diaspora, he considers it important to educate others of their culture, a major influence in writing his thesis. In keeping with education theme, he is the managing director of Narragunnawali Aboriginal Corporation formed to implement the ‘Circuit Breaker Program’ developed by Wayne to support the rehabilitation of Indigenous prisoners and divert offenders away from crime.

Hans Asenbaum University of Canberra Dr Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. His research interests include identity and inclusion in new participatory spaces, digital politics, and theories of deliberative, participatory and radical democracy. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Communication Theory, Politics & Gender, the SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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European Journal of Social Theory, and Political Studies. Hans is Co-convener of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association in the UK. After defending his thesis at the University of Westminster, he held a position as Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He has been invited for research visits and public lectures in Germany, Brazil, and Australia and received several grants and scholarships.

Email: Hans.Asenbaum@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @Hans_Asenbaum

Edana Beauvais Simon Fraser University I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Before joining SFU, I held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University, a Visiting Democracy Fellowship at the Ash Center, Harvard University, and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, McGill University.

I am interested in the way inequalities shape communication and action, producing unequal political influence between different social group members. Substantively, my research falls into three categories: the study of political communication, deliberation and democratic innovation; gender and politics; and racial, ethnic and settler-colonial politics. I am also increasingly interested in the ways that changing technologies and digital forms of communication are creating new inequalities in communicative influence and what this means for collective decision-making and democratic legitimacy. Methodologically, I am interested in quantitative methods, particularly advances in machine learning, scaling, and dimensional analysis. I am also interested in experimental design. At SFU, my teaching will contribute to both the Department of Political Science and the new minor in Social Data Analytics.

Email: edana_beauvais@sfu.ca Twitter: @Edana_Beauvais

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Paul Collis University of Canberra Paul Collis is a Barkindji person, academic, writer and poet. He teaches Indigenous Studies and Creative Writing at University Canberra.

Paul received his PhD from University Canberra in 2015. His first novel, Dancing Home, won the Unaipon Award for a previously unpublished Indigenous author in 2016, and won the ACT Book of The Year in 2019. His first book of poetry, Nightmares Run Like Mercury, was published in 2021.

Nicole Curato University of Canberra Nicole Curato is a Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her work examines how deliberative politics can take root in the aftermath of tragedies using ethnographic methods. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Philippines in communities affected by disasters, armed conflict, and police brutality.

She is the author of the prize-winning book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (2019, Oxford University Press) and has published extensively in sociology, political science, and policy studies journals.

Email: Nicole.Curato@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @NicoleCurato

Rikki Dean Goethe University Frankfurt I am Deputy Director of the Democratic Innovations Research Unit at Goethe University Frankfurt, as well as Co-Investigator and Work Package Leader on the Horizon-funded INSPIRE project, and Secretary of the APSA Related Group on Democratic Innovations.

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understanding the opportunities for democratic innovation represented by new digital technologies; and analysing political actors’ attitudes to democracy.

I hold a PhD and an MSc from the London School of Economics, where my research focused on participatory innovations in the social policy process. My PhD Thesis, Democratising Bureaucracy, received the LSE’s Richard Titmuss Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. I also have a BA in Philosophy and Literature and MA in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex.

Email: dean@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Twitter: @Rikki_Dean John Dryzek University of Canberra John Dryzek is Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. Working in both political theory and empirical social science, he is best known for his contributions in the areas of democratic theory and practice and environmental politics.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, former Head of the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne and of the Social and Political Theory program at ANU, former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science, and former ARC Laureate Fellow. He has also held the title of Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra.

Email: John.Dryzek@canberra.edu.au

Selen A. Ercan University of Canberra Selen A. Ercan is a Professor and Director at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her work sits at the intersection of normative theory and interpretive empirical research, and examines public deliberation in various settings ranging from structured forums to the wider public sphere in contemporary societies.

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Press, 2020, with Hendriks and Boswell), and Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022 ed. with Asenbaum, Curato and Mendonça). Selen has authored over 50 articles and won the best paper prize of the journal Policy and Politics twice in 2018 and 2020.

Email: Selen.Ercan@canberra.edu.au

Jean-Paul Gagnon University of Canberra Jean-Paul Gagnon is a democratic theorist specializing in democracy's linguistic artifacts and the theory of non-human democracy. He edits the Berghahn (Oxford/New York) journal Democratic Theory and the Palgrave Macmillan book series on The Theories, Concepts, and Practices of Democracy. He is director of the nascent Foundation for the Philosophy of Democracy.

Email: Jean-Paul.Gagnon@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @jeanpaulrgagnon

Brigitte Geissel Goethe University Frankfurt Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geissel is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

She also heads the "Democratic Innovations" research unit and the Department of Social Sciences. Her research and teaching cover topics such as democratic innovation, political inequality, and political participation and attitudes.

Email: geissel@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Frederic Hanusch Justus Liebig University Giessen Frederic is a fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE in Hamburg and coconvener of the Earth System Governance Project’s Working Group on Democracy. He is also co-founder and scientific manager of the “Panel on Planetary Thinking” at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Considering the stimulating science-art interface, he initiated the “Planetary Scholars and Artists in Residence Program”. His own research revolves around the SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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intersections of democracy and planetary change. Frederic recently published “The Politics of Deep Time,” which explores how planetary temporalities can be politically institutionalized.

Currently, he is working on "The Planetary Condition," which develops the notion of an emerging planetary paradigm. Both books are under contract with Cambridge University Press in the Earth System Governance Elements series.

Before joining Giessen University, Frederic received his PhD from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen and worked for the German Advisory Council on Global Change for the German Government (WBGU) in Berlin where he contributed to various policy-oriented reports.

Afterwards, he was a research group leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. Throughout his academic career, he has received several scholarships, including that of the International Council of Canadian Studies for his visiting fellowship at the School of the Environment of the University of Toronto, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Visiting Distinguished Fellow Scholarship of the University of Canberra.

Email: frederic.hanusch@thenew.institute Twitter: @frederichanusch

Carolyn Hendriks Australian National University Carolyn M. Hendriks is a Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy with a background in political science and environmental engineering. She has published widely on the democratic aspects of contemporary governance, including participation, public deliberation, inclusion and representation.

Carolyn is the author of three books, including Democratic Mending: democratic repair in disconnected times (with Ercan & Boswell, Oxford University Press, 2020, Oct), The Politics of Public Deliberation (Palgrave, 2011), Environmental Decision Making: Exploring Complexity and Context (with Harding and Faruqi, Federation Press 2009). She has also authored over 30 journal articles, a number of which have won international prizes.

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Daniel Kübler University of Zurich Daniel Kübler is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and the co-director of the Centre for Democracy Studies at the University of Zurich since 2009, and an associated researcher at Sciences Po Paris since 2018. He studied political science at the University of Lausanne, where he also obtained his PhD back in 1998. He has previously held positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the School of Social Work in Basel, as well as visiting positions at the University of Constance and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

His research interests are direct democracy and democratic innovations, local and urban politics and governance, public policy analysis , as well as representative bureaucracy. He was recently involved in the organization of and research on several local Citizen Assemblies in Switzerland, and is coresponsible for the organization of the Swiss Citizen Assembly taking place at the national level in fall 2024.

Email: daniel.kuebler@ipz.uzh.ch

Mikko Leino University of Turku Mikko Leino is a senior researcher at the political science unit at University of Turku. He currently works in a research project funded by the Academy of Finland that examines a just climate transition and related citizen participation. Leino's research focuses on democratic innovations, deliberative democracy and citizen opinions - especially attitudes regarding immigration and climate policy. He is also interested in e.g., questions related to citizen participation, political geography and political polarization. Leino is also the corresponding editor-in-chief of “Politiikasta” journal.

Email: molein@utu.fi

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Jordan McSwiney University of Canberra Jordan McSwiney is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He completed his PhD at The University of Sydney in 2021.

Jordan’s research focuses on the far right, with a particular focus on their communication and organisation. His work has been published in Information, Communication & Society, New Media & Society, and Patterns of Prejudice, among others. At the Centre, Jordan is working on the project ‘Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks’ (Discovery Project, funded by Australian Research Council, 2021-24).

Email: jordan.mcswiney@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @ jordan_mcswiney

Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça Federal University of Minas Gerais Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is an Associate Professor at the Political Science Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). He is the coordinator of MARGEM (Research Group on Democracy and Justice) and a fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology for Digital Democracy (INCT.DD). He is also a CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) Researcher.

Ricardo Mendonça works with democratic theory, critical theory, contentious politics, and political communication. He is one of the co-authors of Algorithmic Institutionalism: the Changing Rules of Social and Political Life (with F. Filgueiras and V. Almeida, Oxford University Press, 2023) and one of the editors of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (with S. Ercan, H. Asenbaum and N. Curato, Oxford University Press, 2022) and Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice (with S. Elstub and S. Ercan, Routledge, 2018). His work has recently appeared in several journals, including the European Political Science Review, Communications of the ACM, Political Studies, International Journal of Press/Politics and IEEE Internet Computing.

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Simon Niemeyer University of Canberra Simon Niemeyer is co-founder of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. Simon’s research covers the broad field of deliberative democracy, with a focus on the use of empirical research to inform its theoretical foundations and understand how they translate into practical democratic innovations.

Simon completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2002, which followed undergraduate studies in ecology, economics, and environmental policy (Griffith University).

Since graduating, he has acted as chief investigator on 18 research projects, including nine Australian Research Council Awards and an ARC Future Fellowship. As well as ANU and University of Canberra, he has held research positions at the Uppsala University, University of Birmingham, Cambridge University and CSIRO. He has also held visiting positions and numerous universities including University of Oxford (Nuffield College), Åbo Akademi, University of British Columbia, University of Bern and University of Northern Arizona.

Email: Simon.Niemeyer@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @simonniemeyer

PerOla Öberg Uppsala University PerOla Öberg has published research on Public Administration, Interest Groups, Corporatism, Lobbying, Trust, and Deliberation. His current research concern Expertise and Public Policy, Civil Society, Deliberative Governance, Citizen Participation, Civic values, and the use of learning, experience and knowledge in public policy.

He has published in journals such as The Journal of European Public Policy, Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Public Administration Review, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journal, West European Politics, Governance, and European Political Science Review. Öberg has contributed with handbook chapters with research on Science and Policy Design (Edward Elgar), Deliberation (Edward Elgar), Local Policy Analysis (Routledge), and Interest Group Politics (Oxford University Press).

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Jonathan Pickering University of Canberra Jonathan is an Associate Professor at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, where he teaches international relations. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (2015-19) at the University of Canberra.

Email: jonathan.pickering@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @jrpickering

Melisa Ross University of Bremen I am a Postdoctoral researcher at SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality. I received my PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in 2022.

In the past, I was a researcher at the LATINNO project (Democracy and Democratization Department, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, 2017-2021) and the Healthier Democracies project (Public Agenda, New York, USA, 20212022). I am currently part of the Global Solidarity cluster (GlobaLab, 2023-) and the emerging Global Citizens’ Assemblies Network (GloCAN, 2023 -).

My research spans contemporary Latin American politics, neoliberalism and postneoliberalism, citizen participation, deliberation, and democratic innovations, especially at the regional and transnational level.

Email: melisa.ross@uni-bremen.de Twitter: @kmelisaross

Mary F. (Molly) Scudder Purdue University Molly Scudder is an associate professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Her research focuses on democracy, deliberation, and inclusion.

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University Press 2020), establishes the centrality of listening for meaningfully democratic deliberation.

Her second book, The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation, with Stephen K. White, is now out with Oxford University Press (April 2023). The book examines the tension and congruence between the deliberative model, or “face,” of democracy, with its emphasis on reason and consensus, and the agonistic face of democracy with its emphasis on conflict and resistance.

Scudder holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and a BS from Santa Clara University. She has held visiting research positions at the CDDGG in 2019 and at Sciences Po, Paris in 2023. Currently she is guest-editing a special issue on democratic listening for Political Communication.

Email: scudder@purdue.edu Twitter: @mollyscudder

Maija Setälä University of Turku Maija received her PhD from The London School of Economics in 1997. In 2012, she was appointed as a Professor of Political Science at University of Turku. In her research, she is specialised in democratic theory, democratic innovations, and political trust. Previously, she has made research visits at Columbia University, Australian National University and University of Westminster. She was the Principal Investigator of the project "Participation in Long-Term Decision-Making" (PALO) funded by the Strategic Research Council of Academy of Finland (2017-2022). Currently, she leads the project "Facing Systemic Change Together" (FACTOR) funded by the Academy of Finland (2021-2024).

Email: maiset@utu.fi Twitter: @maija_setala

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Adele Webb University of Canberra Dr Adele Webb is Research Fellow in Democracy and Citizen Engagement at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, where she is involved with the Connecting to Parliament project and in teaching for the Masters of Public Policy.

Adele is an early career political sociologist researching how citizens think about democracy, when and why they hold ambivalent attitudes to democracy, and how subjectivities and the political unconscious affect their engagement with democratic processes. Adele is also interested in Southeast Asian Politics, Post-Colonial Theory and Critical Interpretive methods.

Email: Adele.Webb@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @adelehwebb

Melissa Williams University of Toronto Research interests include democratic theory, comparative political theory, the history of political thought, and problems of democratic justice under conditions of structural inequality; current project focuses on democratic collective agency beyond the state. Published work ranges from Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton 1998) to Deparochializing Political Theory (ed., Cambridge 2020), as well as numerous edited volumes and articles in journals such as Political Theory, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics, and Polity.

Email: melissa.williams@utoronto.ca

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The Participants Seraphine Arnold University of Stuttgart Seraphine Arnold is a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart, as well as a Junior Re-searcher in Horizon 2020 EuComMeet (Deliberative Spaces for Democracy) project. She received a Master of Arts in Empirical Political and Social Research and has worked as a re-search assistant and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, Political Theory and Empircal Democracy Research Department. Her research interests lie in political theory and empirical democracy research, along with democratic innovations and the political impact of deliberative minipublics.

Email: seraphine.arnold@sowi.uni-stuttgart.de Twitter: @seraphinearnold

Bryan Lee Celeste The University of Newcastle I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. I am working on a research project focusing on indigenous people's cultural agency, power, and performativity of indigeneity in everyday life.

Email: Bryan.Celeste@uon.edu.au Twitter: @bryleeceleste

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Noemi Cipriano Scuola Normale Superiore My name is Noemi Cipriano, I was born in Palermo on 4 November 1996. I define myself as half Sicilian, half Sardinian (by my mother's side), but 100% islander. I have spent most of my life on these two islands overlooking the Mediterranean.

For a few years I have been living in Florence, where I do my doctorate at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and I am currently in my second year. I have a bachelor’s degree in political science and international Relations. During the three-year (bachelor) course I did an Erasmus with a diploma at Sciences Po in Toulouse. Subsequently, for the master's degree I opted for a sociological path, attending the master's degree at the University of Florence in Sociology and Social Research, simultaneously with the master’s degree in political science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. My passion for political sociology has made studies on participatory and deliberative democracy my focus of studies and interest.

Email: noemi.cipriano@sns.it

Wendy Conway-Lamb University of Canberra Wendy is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.

Her research examines the roles of different stakeholders in global cli-mate adaptation governance, including those communities most affected by climate impacts at local levels, as well as civil society, governments, and the international development and climate finance community. Wendy’s fieldwork in Vietnam, a highly climate-vulnerable country, reveals multiple discourses of adaptation invoked by different domestic and international stakeholders involved in adaptation in that country. Wendy’s professional background is climate change and international development, having worked for the Australian government, non-government, and international organizations in the Asia-Pacific region. She is currently on leave from DFAT. Wendy is part of the research team evaluating the Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis. She has also lectured and tutored at the Australian National University on domestic and international climate policy and governance.

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Twitter: @WendyConwayLamb Roger Davis University of Canberra Roger Davis has worked at the intersection of First Nations peoples and governments to progress indigenous environmental interests in planning, law and policy for over twenty years. He is a PhD Researcher at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. His topic: Rethinking Indigenous Environmental Policy in Australia: A Deliberative Systems Perspective uses a dual deliberative systems lens to foreground indigenous democracy and understand the challenges experienced by Indigenous environmental organisations in facing up to the Australian settler colonial state.

Email: rogerbdavis@gmail.com

Hong Do Central European University Hong Do is a PhD Candidate in Political Theory at Central European University, Vienna, Austria. She previously completed her BA in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and MSc. in Politics, Economics, and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. Her primary research interests are in the area of democratic theory (Deliberative Democracy) and its implications for international and non-democratic political circumstances. Additionally, she is also interested in the issues of political theory for animals, climate justice and comparative political theory. Her dissertation entitled “Global Public Reason and Participatory Global Governance: Towards a Model of Transnational Deliberative Innovations”, seeks to construct a deliberative theory of global governance with the Rawlsian ideal of Global Public Reason as the normative framework and the transnational deliberative mini-public as the practical framework. In academic year 2022/23, Hong was the co-chair of the research group in political, legal and moral philosophy (POLEMO) at Central European University.

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Madeliene Egan University of Canberra Madeleine is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni-versity of Canberra.

Her research investigates constitution-making and the role of informal participa-tion and deliberation in the public sphere.

She previously completed an Honours thesis on social trust and deliberative politics. Prior to beginning graduate studies, Madeleine worked in community engagement for local govern-ment and non-profit organisations, as well as in communications, community organising and campaigns for environmental justice.

Email: Madeleine.egan@canberra.edu.au

Hannah Forde University of Oxford Dr Hannah Forde is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, the University of Oxford. Her research explores ways to use policy and regulation to make the food system healthier, fairer, and more environmentally sustainable. Currently, Hannah works on the CO-designing for healthy People and Planet: food system Economic Research (COPPER) project, where she works with the public and policymakers to design food subsidy and tax scenarios. Hannah’s previous research has included work to understand the impact of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy, the proposed effects of new TV and online advertising restrictions for less healthy foods, and food system transformation.

Hannah holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of St Andrews, a Master’s degree in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health from the University of Bristol, and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge.

Email: hannah.forde@phc.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @_hannah_forde

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Iñaki Goñi University of Edinburgh I am a cultural psychologist, currently working as a doctoral candidate in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the University of Edinburgh. I worked as lecturer and a researcher at DILAB UC (School of Engineering, Universidad Católica de Chile). My focus is on the relationship between democracy design and technology. I am an affiliate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Expertise (SKAPE) in Edinburgh and I serve as Editorial Board member of the Tapuya Journal of STS. Among other projects, I led Chile’s first participatory process to inform the National Strategy of Innova-tion. I also participated in the analysis of large-scale participatory processes in Chile using Natural Language Processing, such as the Constitutional Process of 2022 and 2023.

Email: Inaki.goni@ed.ac.uk

Daragh Hamilton Central European University Daragh hails from Dublin, Ireland. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Sciences & Policy at the Central European University (CEU), Austria. Daragh also serves as a Research Fellow at the “Democracy Institute” wherein he actively contributes to the “Environment & Democracy” Working Group. Daragh’s dissertation topic explores the "Irish Citizens' Assembly: From Process to Outcomes". His study examines the potential for deliberative processes to promote meaningful policy outcomes.

Specifically, his research explores the interlinkages between citizens’ assemblies and traditional parliamentary processes; thus, he aims to provide valuable insights into the dynamics of deliberative participation in (climate) policy formation.

Daragh also has extensive professional experience of policy and governance processes - gained through his engagements within the Irish Parliament, EU institutions, and UNEP. This unique blend of practical expertise and academic excellence underscores his commitment to critically exploring the application of deliberative democracy in real-world contexts Email: Hamilton_daragh-john@phd.ceu.edu SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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Anne Nygaard Jedzini University of Canberra Anne Nygaard Jedzini is a PhD Candidate on power-sharing at Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at University of Canberra. She is the recipient of the ARC SRI 2021 PhD Scholarship. Anne is the former Vice Mayor of the City of Aarhus in Denmark where she participated on several deliberative co-creation task committees. Anne’s research on power-sharing, democratic innovations and local government has been published in ECPR’s blog The Loop. Anne’s first academic article is forthcoming in The Special Issue ‘50 Years of LGS’ in the journal of Local Government Studies in 2024.

Anne has also presented her research to Australian and Danish local governments. Anne is the former Postgraduate Caucus Representative at APSA. In this role, Anne served on the Executive Committee and the Local Organising Committee for APSA Annual Conference in 2023. Anne’s main research interest is power and power-sharing in democratic/political institutions and the role of deliberation and political leadership in this context.

Email: Anne.Jedzini@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @AnneNygaardJed

Raj Kaithwar University of New South Wales Intrigued by the absence of non-humans in political discussions, Raj has been researching on new materialist dimension of geopolitics for his PhD project at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is not only developing a theoretical understanding of geopolitics as an assemblage, but he is also empirically revisiting South Asian geopolitics by studying the role of transboundary shifting rivers in shaping the region’s geopolitics. In this respect, he has a forthcoming book chapter titled ‘Shifting Rivers’ in Making Things International (Volume 4): Failures, Accidents, Surprises. Prior to UNSW, Raj studied and worked at the University of Delhi, South Asian University and the Council for Strategic and Defence Research, India where he published reports, articles and reviews on the politics of transboundary rivers in South Asia.

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Charles Ladia University of the Philippines Diliman Charles Erize P. Ladia teaches and researches on topics at the intersection of communication, rhetoric, identities, and politics. He finished his Master of Public Management at the University of the Philippines Open University and he is currently pursuing PhD in Political Science at UP Diliman. He is also assistant professor of speech communication and rhetoric at the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman where he earned his BA (Speech Communication) degree. His research interests and advocacy include public addresses, political rhetoric, civic education and engagement, and identity movements. He has presented his research in various local and international conferences and has represented the country in different youth exchange programs and research fellowships. He can be reached through cpladia@up.edu.ph.

Email: cpladia@up.edu.ph Twitter: @charleserize

Nadine Malmberg Hollmann Aarhus University Nadine is a second year PhD fellow at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. Her PhD project concerns public management and political perspectives to involving citizens as coproducers of public services and the use of coproduction initiatives as public sector strategy in response to resource scarcity in the public sector.

Email: Nho@ps.au.dk Twitter: @nadinehollmann

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Joanna Massie McMaster University Joanna Massie is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, where she is exploring deliberative mini publics (DMPs), representation, and public opinion. Her research interests include deliberative democracy, public policy, and Canadian and comparative politics. She is Project Director for CIVDEM@Mac, an interdisciplinary partnered learning pathway; Project Lead for Ford Polimeter 2022-2026, a promise-tracking tool for the Ontario legislature; Fellow in the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University; and former Research Fellow in the Public Engagement in Health Policy Project. Joanna previously worked at MASS LBP in Toronto, Canada, where she ran longform deliberative panels, and The RSA in London, UK, where she led a program to increase engagement in health and public services. She completed her MA in Political Studies at Queen’s University, and her BA in Social Policy at University of York, UK. Email: massij1@mcmaster.ca Twitter: @joannacmassie

Olivia S. Mendoza University of Canberra Olivia S. Mendoza is an incoming PhD student at the Center for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra. She was formerly an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University of the Philippines Baguio, where she taught courses on ethics and the history of philosophy and the social sciences. Her research focuses on political emotions, ethics, and social justice. Her most recent work, "Emotions and Filipino Resilience," is forthcoming in Routledge, and is part of a collection of works of Filipina philosophers. She was also recently awarded the One UP Faculty Grant Award in Philosophy (Ethics) for Outstanding Teaching and Public Service (2022-2024), and the UP International Publication Award for her collective writing article “Feeling Like a Philosopher of Education: A Response to Jackson's Smiling Philosopher (2022).”

Email: Olivia.Mendoza@canberra.edu.au Twitter: @mendoza_olives SIXTH DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY SUMMER SCHOOL

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Phoebe Quinn University of Melbourne Phoebe Quinn is a PhD candidate at the Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, where she has also worked as a Research Fellow since 2018. Her work focuses on community wellbeing in the face of disasters and climate change, and includes qualitative, mixed methods and participatory approaches. In response to challenges in collective decision-making processes after disasters, Phoebe became interested in how ideals of community-led recovery might be more fully realised through the application of innovative democratic approaches emerging around the world. This led her to begin her PhD in May 2022, exploring the role new forms of civic technology may play in progressing through contentious climate and disaster-related issues, with funding from Melbourne Climate Futures, the Faculty of MDHS and Natural Hazards Research Australia. Phoebe holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne (2019).

Email: phoebeq@unimelb.edu.au Twitter: @PhoebeRQuinn

Emanuela Savini University of Technology Sydney Emanuela is a researcher and participatory democracy professional. She completed her Mas-ters in Public Policy and Management at the University of Melbourne with a high distinction and her PhD research at UTS where she also lectured in Organisational Theory and Public Participation in Decision Making. Emanuela has published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, and presented at several Australian and International conferences. She is the Chair of the IAP2 Research Working Group and is regularly invited to speak about public participation. Emanuela is also a Director at The Public Value Studio, an organisation committed to increasing civic participation through programs such as the Democracy Lab. She partners with governments in Victoria to deliver initiatives which enhance civic participation and citizen voice in policy making. Her practice is founded on a fervent belief that it is the tacit knowledge of communities, and community-led practice, that is critical for change.

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Vanessa Schwaiger University of Stuttgart Vanessa Schwaiger is a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart and holds an MA in Empirical Political and Social Research from the University of Stuttgart. Her research explores the democratic preferences and imaginations of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups with a particular focus on the interplay between objective placement in society and subjective feelings such as deprivation or recognition. Her broader research interests include democratic preferences, identity, and quantitative methods.

Email: vanessa.schwaiger@sowi.uni-stuttgart.de Twitter: @vschwaiger1

Erik Severso The University of British Columbia Erik is a PhD Candidate in Political Science (subfield Political Theory) at the University of British Columbia. He studies the relationship between the philosophy of language, the digital arena, and democratic agency. Specifically, his dissertation discusses the way the architectures of the digital arena condition our ability act together by structuring democratic and otherwise political speech and interaction. In structuring speech and interaction, digital architectures can be enabling and/or disabling for democratic actors. The task of Erik’s dissertation is to determine if, how, and when the digital arena can be more enabling than disabling. He takes a democratic systems approach to the study of the digital arena, zooming in on the level of opinion- and will-formation in the public sphere. Beyond his dissertation, Erik’s ongoing projects include papers on coded language as well as the wider relevance of J.L. Austin’s work for democratic thought.

Email: eseverso@student.ubc.ca Twitter: @eseverso33

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Magni Szymaniak-Arnesen Adam Mickiewicz University Magni is a second-year doctoral student in political science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. They are also a team member of the research project “Deliberative Innovations in Central and Eastern Europe – a panacea for democracy in crisis?” (DelibDemCEE), led by Prof. Paulina Pospieszna and funded by the National Science Centre Poland. So far, their research interests focused on minipublics’ functionality for public policy-making and policy actors’ attitudes towards public deliberation. For their Master’s thesis from the University of Vienna, they analyzed local and global perspectives on climate mitigation in an independently organized climate assembly in Washington State, US. Within the last three years, they also observed multiple citizens’ assemblies at the local and national level in Poland. Before deciding to continue their academic education in a doctoral school, Magni was a civil servant, and later an activist. They love spending time in nature.

Email: magni.arnesen@amu.edu.pl Twitter: @Magni_Sz

Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna Addis Ababa University Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna (Asst. Prof. of Law; PhD Cand.) earned his LL.B degree in law from Haramaya University, and his MPhil in Indigenous Studies from University of Tromso, Norway. He has attended PhD courses in Democracy in XXI Century, Coimbra University, Portugal; Law and Development, Bule Hora University, Ethiopia; Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has ample experience in teaching, research and community services endeavours in various Universities in Ethiopia. He has published academic and policy articles in reputable journals, book chapters and published short communications through online platforms.

Besides, he had served as Law School Dean, Dilla University; vice Director of Institute of Indigenous Studies, Dilla University; Head of School of Law, Salale University. He actively participate in the development of Gadaa Curriculum, Establishment of Customary Court (Mana Murtii Aadaa), and currently serving as a consultant for the Oromia Supreme Court, Ethiopia.

Email: zelalem.tesfaye430@gmail.com

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Nivek Thompson University of Technology Sydney Nivek has recently obtained her PhD for a thesis titled Deliberative mini-publics: institutional design and the quality of democracy. In addition to her academic work, Nivek runs a consultancy specialising in the recruitment of mini-publics for deliberative processes.

Email: Nivek.thompson@uts.edu.au Twitter: @NivekKThompson

Lucas Veloso The Federal University of Minas Gerais Brazilian PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The dissertation focuses on sociopolitical vulnerabilities and democratic seeds of the world's First Global Citizen Assembly. Research supervised by Professor Ricardo Mendonça and co-supervised by Professor Nicole Curato from the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG - University of Canberra).

Affiliation includes the MARGEM research group at UFMG and CDDGG’s Global Citizens' Assembly Network. Academic work focuses on contemporary dynamics and dilemmas within public spheres, encompassing themes like social movements, participatory institutions, and democratic innovations.

Theoretical lens informed by democratic, critical, decolonial, and vulnerability theories. Skilled in qualitative methods like political ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and process tracing. Competent in quantitative techniques.

Recently, co-authored the evaluation report of the pioneering Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

Participated in the implementation team of Brazil's inaugural Citizen's Assembly on Genetic Editing.

Email: lucasnveloso@gmail.com Twitter: @NigriVeloso

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Maria Fernanda Diaz Vidal University of Edinburgh My name is María Fernanda Díaz Vidal and I am a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Edinburgh. I have a MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice by the same University and a Bachelor in Law of the University of Chile. My doctoral research explores public safety policies at the local level from the perspective of deliberative democratic theory. For that purpose, during 2023 I spent a few exciting months doing ethnographic fieldwork in a Chilean municipality, working with local council officials, politicians, social leaders and citizens.

Therefore, my currents interests are between the intersection of criminology, criminal law, public policy, political theory and ethnography. Always excited to talk about politics, crime, Chile and Latin America.

Email: maria.diaz@ed.ac.uk Twitter: @fernanda_diazv

Pragya Yadav National Law School of India University A doctoral researcher in the field of Political Communication and Policy Studies, Political Philosophy, and Debate. Strong research professional with a NET/JRF focused on Political Science from University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. Currently pursuing PhD in Public Policy from National Law School of India University on the topic of “DELIBERATIVE CAPACITY, STRUCTURAL EFFICACY AND POLARISATION IN INDIAN LOK SA-BHA (2004-2020): An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative Model of Indian Democracy”. Extensive background in investigating in the area of Political Communication, Policy and Media Studies and working at the nexus of Political Science, policy and communication. Knowledgeable about social science research areas and study procedures. Proficient in excel, SPSS and QCA package in R Programming. Diligent, industrious and efficient in handling minute details with methodical approaches to gain insights into the field of Social Sciences.

Email: pragyayadav@nls.ac.in Twitter: @Pragya_PYadav

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