Democratic Innovations APSA

Join us at @cdfuos.bsky.social for a two-day conference on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary, 3-4 July.

Free to register. Just sign up here: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

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(PDF) Rethinking Peacebuilding Strategies with Deliberative Ideals to be published in Alternatives, special issue, in print PDF | Many peacebuilding approaches strongly focus on vertical or “top-down” processes instigated by states and international actors. At the same time,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

How can #grassroots movements & #deliberation contribute to interstate #peacebuilding?
Have a look at the preprint of our article (w/ J. Todd), w/illustrative cases from #Ireland & #Somaliland ➡️ tinyurl.com/h682sj9b
Our SI in #Alternatives (coedited w/ F. Onditi & A. Bah forthcoming soon!)

Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social.

*The deadline is the 28th*
(not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).

very much looking forward to this (virtual!) event with @hertieschool.bsky.social and Columbia World Projects, where i'll be talking how to design & govern digital platforms to promote democratic practice, incl. new thoughts on things like decentralized platforms/protocols & crowdsourced moderation!

On the left is the book cover for Empathy and Political Reasoning. On the right is headshots of Lala Muradova and the three discussants and date and time of the event.

Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning.

With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous.

7 May, 12pm UK.

Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Global Citizens' Assembly Directory - Global Citizens’ Assembly Network We are building our directory of organisations, funders, networks, and advocates working on forums of global citizen deliberation.

Hello #demoinno #delibwave community!

We're updating our website and are looking out for news on global and transnational deliberative processes.

How are your projects going? Any transnational citizens' assembly we're missing in our directory? Please let us know!

glocan.org/about/direct...

And the same reminder for the ITP papers. You should have received notices of acceptance/rejection last Tuesday and you need to login to accept/decline by March 20.

Shout out to Democratic Innovations - we are co-sponsoring a 🤯 panel about public deliberations on Generative AI.

Acceptances for APSA have gone out. Don't forget to log in and accept your participation before 20 March!

Delighted that the strength of submissions meant we were able to increase our allocation from 5 to 14 panels!!

It is going to be a great APSA for democratic innovations.

How can Citizens' Assemblies address our democratic predicament?

In conversation with @jgastil.bsky.social, Marjan Ehsassi explores what it means to activate citizenship. Dive into their fascinating conversation at the @delibdemjournal.bsky.social⤵️
www.publicdeliberation.net/activated-ci...

✨MEET THE NEW DDC POSTDOCS✨
We are excited to announce the next fantastic new DDC hire: André Rodarte (currently still UT Austin) will join us this Summer! André will work on various projects having to do with disinformation and elite communication.
Welcome to the DDC!!! 😊

Next time you login to APSA don't forget to register for our group.

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Your registration will help us meet the membership threshold for becoming a section, which triggers more resources to support this research community.

A democratic innovations starter pack! Just what we needed 😀

And here is the starter pack for another more niche research interest at the intersection between Political Philosophy and Democratic Innovations. Please tell me if I missed anyone go.bsky.app/2rJ9y16

The rise and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil. Why it happened? It may have been due to excessive institutionalization (bureaucratization), decreasing citizens' participation, and a lack of partisan support. #DemocraticInnovations

Central to the #democratic value of #minipublics is public engagement. Yet, how to generate this engagement in practice remains underexplored.

🔔ICYMI: The latest from @scastell.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub

www.publicdeliberation.net/mini-publics...

At the Digital Democracy Centre, we've just created this cool new starter pack featuring research institutions, researchers, NGOs, journals, and think tanks focused on how digital technologies and AI impact media, politics, and democracy.

We'll be updating the list continuously!

💙 Thanks. Nice to be here

We are currently going through your submissions to the 2025 general conference. We had a bumper crop this year, which means our panel allocation has been increased from 8 last year to 11 this year! So we're excited that Vancouver going to host the biggest ever democratic innovations section at APSA.

👋 Hi, we have just migrated here from you know where.

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