The Deliberative Quality of  Communication Conference, November 8 -9, 2018 at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES; Germany) We invite you to submit an abstract until June 15, 2018, via the conference website www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/DQComm2018. Keynote speaker: Kaisa Herne (University of Tampere) Roundtable on the future of deliberation research with: André Bächtiger (University of … The Deliberative Quality of  Communication Conference 2018

Call for Applications Due: April 30, 2018 The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (the Centre) was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Research Grant for the project A Metastudy of Democratic Deliberation (DP180103014) and is seeking staff to join the research team. The project is hiring a Research Associate whose main task is … Research Associate at the University of Canberra, Australia

Best Paper Award Section 63: The Diversity of Democratic Innovations, ECPR General Conference, Oslo 2017 The Standing Group on Democratic Innovations of the ECPR has decided to award Hans Asenbaum from the University of Westminster, UK, for his paper ”Online Anonymity in Deliberative Democracy: Disinhibition and Contestation or Deindividuation and Conformity?” Exploring the role of … Best Paper Award from our section at the ECPR General Conference 2017

It was lovely to see so many of you at the Business Meeting in Oslo. You can find notes from the meeting here: Democratic Innovations Business Meeting_Oslo_notes

Our SG will have a full section chaired by Staffan Himmelroos (Åbo Akademi) and Simon Beste (Stuttgart),  with 10 interesting panels at the General Conference in Oslo. As usual, we will also have a Business Meeting in conjunction with the conference. Since there were no slots thanks to a large number of panels, we will organise the … Business meeting at the ECPR General conference in Oslo