Working Paper Series
The Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance working paper series makes preliminary findings of research on deliberative democracy publicly available in advance of publication in journals and books. The series aims to present new research that makes original, high-quality contributions to the theory and practice of deliberative democracy informed by recent literature in the field.
Contributions to the series are welcomed from staff members, associates and visitors of the Centre. To propose a paper for inclusion in the series, please contact our editors:
Hans Asenbaum
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Madeleine Egan
PhD Candidate
Madeleine.Egan@canberra.edu.au
Comments on papers are much appreciated - see individual working papers for details of corresponding authors.

2021/4 Simon Niemeyer, Francesco Veri, John S. Dryzek and Andre Bachtiger "How Deliberation Happens: Enabling and Activating Deliberative Reasoning".
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2021/3 John Rountree and Nicole Curato "Citizens' Assemblies and the Public Sphere".

2021/2 Antonin Lacelle Webster "The Political Problem of Hope and its Deliberative Manifestation".

2021/1 Pierrick Chalaye "The Discursive Sources of Environmental Progress and its Limits: Biodiversity Politics in France".

2020/3 Kei Nishiyama, Wendy Russell and Pierrick Chalaye "The Interplay of Facilitative Technique and Design to Increase Inclusiveness."
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2020/2 Parry, Lucy J. and Ercan, Selen A. "Using Participedia to study the impacts of mini-publics.”
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2019/6 Christoph Niessen and Min Reuchamps "Designing a permanent deliberative citizens' assembly."
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2019/5 David M. Farrell, Nicole Curato, John S. Dryzek, Brigitte Geißel, Kimmo Grönlund, Sofie Marien, Simon Niemeyer, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Alan Renwick, Jonathan Rose, Maija Setälä, and Jane Suiter. "Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features."

2019/3 Pickering, Jonathan. "Deliberative Ecologies: Engaging Complexity Theory to Understand How Deliberative Systems Emerge and Change."

2019/1 Curato, Nicole. "From Authoritarian Enclave to Deliberative Space: Governance Logics in Post-Disaster Reconstruction."
(This paper has now been published: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12280)
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2017/3 Asenbaum, Hans. "Revisiting E-Topia: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Findings on Online Anonymity."
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2017/2 Bhatia, Udit. "Cracking the Whip: The Deliberative Costs of Strict Party Discipline."
(This paper has now been published: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2018.1479813)
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2017/1 Nishiyama, Kei. "Enabling Children's Deliberation Schools as a Mediating Space in Deliberative Systems."
(This paper has now been published: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13676261.2018.1514104)

2016/1 Jennstål, Julia. "Deliberative Participation and Personality: The Effect of Traits, Situations and Motivation."

2016/2 Dryzek, John S. and Pickering, Jonathan. "Deliberation as a Catalyst for Reflexive Environmental Governance."
This paper has now been published: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916306619

2015/1 Pickering, Jonathan. "Top-down proposals for sharing the global climate policy effort fairly: lost in translation in a bottom-up world?"
This paper has now been published: https://www.routledge.com/Ethical-Values-and-the-Integrity-of-the-Climate-Change-Regime/Breakey-Popovski/p/book/9780367597542

2014/1 Jennstål, Julia and Simon Niemeyer. "The Deliberative Citizen: The Role of Personality and Context in Deliberative Behaviour."

2014/2 Curato, Nicole and Ong, Jonathan. "Inclusion as Deliberative Agency: The Selective Representation of Poor Women in Reproductive Health Debates."
OLDER WORKING PAPERS
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2014/4 Smith, William. "Disrupting Deliberation: The Impact of Political Protest on Deliberative Systems.", University of Canberra, Canberra.
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2014/3 Parry, Lucy. "Q Study in Waiting.", University of Canberra, Canberra.
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2013/1 Niemeyer, Simon, Andrea Felicetti & Olga Di Ruggero. "Provisional Report - Analysis of the Citizens’ Initiative Review.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2012/2 Batalha, Luisa, Simon Niemeyer, Nicole Curato, John Dryzek & John Gastil. "Group dynamics and deliberative processes: Cognitive and Affective aspects.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2012/1 Niemeyer, Simon. "Building the Foundations of Deliberative Democracy: The Deliberative Person.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2011/5 Stevenson, Hayley. "Democratising the Governance of Climate Technologies.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2011/4 Niemeyer, Simon, Kersty Hobson, Jacqui Russell, Imagen Ord-Evans, John Boswell & Elaine dos Santos. "Participant Recommendations and Report: Climate Change and the Public Sphere Project.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2011/3 Goodin, Robert. "Democratising International Law.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2011/2 Stephenson, Hayley and John Dryzek. "Democratising climate governance through discursive engagement.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2011/1 Stevenson, Hayley. "Representing "The Peoples"?.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2010/3 Niemeyer, Simon, Kersty Hobson, Jacqui Russel, Imagen Ord-Evans, John Boswell and Elaine dos Santos. "Climate Change and the Public Sphere: Public Responses to Climate Change and Governing Adaptation, with specific reference to the ACT and Goulburn-Mulwaree regions.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2010/2 Niemeyer, Simon and Kersty Hobson. "Is Deliberative Democracy the Solution to Governing Climate Change? Evidence from the Field.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2010/1 Lo, Alex. "The Analytic and Democratic Models of Environmental Valuation.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2009/1 Bora, Kanra. "Binary Deliberation: Enhancing the role of social learning in Deliberative Democracy.", The Australian National University, Canberra.
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2008/1 Niemeyer, Simon, Selen Ayirtman Ercan & J. HartzKarp. "Achieving Success in Large Scale Deliberation: Analysis of the Fremantle Bridge Community Engagement Process.", The Australian National University, Canberra.