Editorial Team

Meet the global team of editors running the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, as well as founding and previous editors of the Journal of Public Deliberation.

Editorial Team 2019-2023
Editorial Team 2013-2019
Editorial Team 2011-2013
Editorial Team 2004-2010

Editorial Team 2023-Present

Lucy Parry

Lucy Parry

Lucy J. Parry is a Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. She is currently the project manager of Monitoring Deliberative Integrity in Australia and a collaborator on the Australian citizens’ jury on genome editing. Her research interests include deliberative systems, deliberative mini-publics and democratic innovations, and animal ethics. Uniting these areas is a commitment to bring deliberative theory and practice together, along with her methodological expertise in Q Methodology.
Hans Asenbaum

Hans Asenbaum

Hans Asenbaum is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. His research interests include radical democracy, queer and gender studies, digital politics, and participatory research methods. In 2022 he received the ECPR Rising Star Award. Hans is the author of The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2023) and co-editor of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (with Ercan, Curato and Mendonça, Oxford University Press, 2022). His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Politics & Gender , and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Sonia Bussu

Sonia Bussu

Sonia Bussu is Associate Professor of Public Policy at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham. Her main research interests are participatory governance and participatory action research. Over the years, she has led research and published on participatory and deliberative processes, community engagement, and coproduction of health services, with a focus on the role of facilitative leadership. She sits in advisory boards of organisations working on democratic innovations in Italy, the UK and the EU. She is lead editor of a special issue on Embedding Participatory Governance (2022) for Critical Policy Studies. She co-edited a volume on Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the reinvention of Democratic Innovation (2023, Routledge).
Hannah Werner

Hannah Werner

Hannah Werner is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich and the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau. In her work she tries to understand how citizens think about democracy which includes research on participatory and deliberative processes, democratic legitimacy, and procedural fairness. Currently, she focuses on how the climate crisis affects citizens conceptions and demands of democracy. Since 2022 she serves as the Co-Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on Democratic Innovation. Her work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science or the European Journal of Political Research.

Associate Editors

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Ghana. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and has published 24 articles across 16 journals, including the Journal of Political Philosophy. He works on deliberative democracy, African philosophy, and philosophy of mind.

Lori L. Britt

Lori L. Britt is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University also serves as the Director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue, which seeks to serve as a resource for the study and practice of public engagement in public problem-solving. She has been a learning partner with the Kettering Foundation conducting applied research on framing and facilitating public dialogue and deliberation in communities. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on engagement, public processes, and pedagogy.

Henrik Serup Christensen

Henrik Serup Christensen is Academy Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation Academy of Finland and is based at the Social Science Research Institute at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His current project concerns the use of democratic innovations and the impact on democratic legitimacy. He has published on these and related issues in a number of articles.

Tamirace Fakhoury

Tamirace Fakhoury is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University and Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution. She earned several fellowships
including the Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Germany. She works on power sharing and democratisation in divided societies, migration governance and refugee politics, the European Union’s foreign policy in the Middle East, and the role of diasporas in politics.

Edana Beauvais

Edana Beauvais is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University and a Visiting Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard University. She is a collaborator on the Participedia Project and a member of Equal Voice Canada. Her recent publications appear in the European Journal of Political Research, the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Marina Lindell

Marina Lindell is a Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Institute at Åbo Akademi. She is involved in international projects on deliberative democracy and has written research reports for think tanks and the Ministry of Justice in Finland. As a Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Institute her current research largely focuses on deliberative democracy, long-term decision-making, and minority research. She is interested in the intersection of normative theory and empirical approaches.

Jane Suiter

Jane Suiter is Associate Professor of Communication at the Dublin City University and Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism. She is an Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and a member of the Royal Irish Academy Social Science Committee. She was the co-PI on the Irish Citizen Assembly (2016-18); the co-PI of the Irish Constitutional Convention (2014-16); and a co-I on the “We the Citizens” citizens’ assembly of 2011 (Ireland’s first national deliberative mini public).

Timothy J. Shaffer

Timothy J. Shaffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Assistant Director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University. He is also the Principal Research Specialist at the National Institute for Civil Discourse. His research centres on the advancement of democratic practices through deliberative politics and civic engagement in higher education and other institutional and community settings. He received his PhD from Cornell University.

Book Review Editors

Patricia Mockler

Patricia Mockler is a PhD student at Queens’ University in Canada. Her dissertation focuses on the role of deliberation on the durability of democratic institutions.

John Rountree

John Rountree is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. From a rhetorical perspective, he studies the potentials and perils of democratic deliberation in a variety of real-world contexts, including U.S. legislative debates, town meetings, and citizen review boards.

Filipe Motta

Filipe Motta is a PhD student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He works on deliberative democracy in the aftermath of major disasters.

Kei Nishiyama

Kei Nishiyama is an Assistant Professor at Doshisha University in Japan. His work on children as deliberative actors has been published in five academic journals and is now being used as basis for deliberative forums in Australian and Japanese schools.

Editorial Board

  • Hans Asenbaum, University of Canberra
  • Emily Beausoleil, Victoria University Wellington
  • John Boswell, University of Southampton
  • Lyn Carson, newDemocracy Foundation
  • John Dryzek, University of Canberra
  • Selen Ercan, University of Canberra
  • David Farrell, University College Dublin
  • John Gastil, Pennsylvania State University
  • Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester
  • Kimmo Grolund, Åbo Akademi
  • Marit Hammond, University of Keele
  • Carolyn Hendriks, Australian National University
  • Kaisa Herne, University of Tampere
  • Jonathan Kuyper, Queen’s University, Belfast
  • Sofie Marien, KU Leuven
  • Rousiley Maia, Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • Peter MacLeod, MASS LBP
  • Simon Niemeyer, University of Canberra
  • Jonathan Rose, Queen’s University
  • Paromita Sanyal, Florida State University
  • Molly Scudder, Purdue University
  • Maija Setälä, University of Turku
  • William Smith, The Chinese
  • University of Hong Kong
  • Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian, University of Johannesburg