Editorial Team 2019-2023
Editorial Team 2019-2023
Nicole Curato
Nicole Curato is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the author of the book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (2019, Oxford University Press) and Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems (with Marit Hammond and John B. Min; 2018, Palgrave). She is the founder of the Deliberative Democracy Summer School and the co-chair of the Standing Group on Democratic Innovations at the European Consortium for Political Research.
André Bächtiger
André Bächtiger is Full Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart since 2012. His research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the contexts of representative institutions and mini-publics. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (co-edited with John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren; 2018, Oxford University Press) and Mapping and Measuring Deliberation (co-authored with John Parkinson, 2019, Oxford University Press).
Graham Smith
Graham Smith is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK. He is a specialist in democratic theory and practice, with particular expertise in democratic innovations – new forms of participation in political decision making. His publications include Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation (Cambridge, 2009) and Can Democracy Protect the Future? (Polity, 2020). He was one of the organisers of the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit which proved influential in the development of citizens’ assemblies in the UK. Graham is an investigator on a number of international research projects on democratic engagement, including Participedia, a global knowledge platform on participatory governance, and Scholio, testing argument visualization platforms to improve public discourse on online news comments. He is Chair of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development.
Kim Strandberg
Kim Strandberg is Professor of Political Science, especially political communication at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He has published numerous articles and book chapters about public deliberation and online deliberation. He has especially focused on experimental research exploring the effects and process of deliberation. He co-authored the 2020 International Political Science Review’s Meisel-Laponce award-winning article “Do discussions in like-minded groups necessarily lead to more extreme opinion? Deliberative democracy and group polarization.”
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