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Hans Asenbaum

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Senior research fellow @ Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni Canberra. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 Author of The Politics of Becoming. Open Access https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-becoming-9780192858870?cc=us&lang=en&

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Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social · May 14

Participatory democracy and participatory research share common principles but are often treated as separate domains. Our new paper brings them together.

🙏 @sbussu.bsky.social @oliverescobar.bsky.social scobar.bsky.social @clodaghharris.bsky.social

OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S175...

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · 15d

How can #policy discussions & #adaptation strategies centre #women’s voices & needs? Should they?

📍ICYMI: Check out our Dispatch from Sub-Saharan Africa
highlighting #women as important actors in the fight against #climatechange

🔖 www.publicdeliberation.net/social-capit...

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · 8d

What does #democraticgovernance look like in the context of emergencies? 🚨

Re-sharing Mikko Värttö's research on deliberative mini-publics organised globally in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at #democraticinnovations in emergencies👇

OPEN ACCESS: delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Upcoming seminar: Democratic Innovation or Expensive Boondoggle? The value of mini-publics in theory and practice

This seminar revisits some of the key questions around the growing use of mini-publics to consider their potential and limits.

👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/roi-for-demo...

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Participedia @participedia.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Event alert!

Join @deldemucan.bsky.social next Tuesday for another session of their monthly seminar series. 👏

📚 Democratic Innovation or Expensive Boondoggle?
📆 October 7
⏰ 12pm-1pm AEDT
📍 Hybrid

Click the 🔗 to register! ⬇️
events.humanitix.com/roi-for-demo...

Democratic Innovation or Expensive Boondoggle? The value of mini-publics in theory and practice

Get tickets on Humanitix - Democratic Innovation or Expensive Boondoggle? The value of mini-publics in theory and practice hosted by Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra. Ann Hard...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 10d

📢 Have you registered for our next Strengthening Democracy webinar?

Join Distinguished Professor John Dryzek and Dr Joshua Rhee (AMPLIFY) moderated by Professor Simon Niemeyer, for a deep dive into the theory and practice of mini-publics.

Register here: events.humanitix.com/roi-for-demo...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 22d

📣 New Partnership!

We’re pleased to partner with Young Australians in International Affairs (YAIA) to support emerging leaders in global affairs.

As part of this, we are proud to sponsor YAIA’s 2025 Europe and Eurasia Fellow, Lachie Macfarlan. Read his latest blog here: tinyurl.com/3v668k9h

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Wendy Conway-Lamb @wendyconwaylamb.bsky.social · 19d

For #adaptation to work well, those most affected by #climatechange must be included in decisions 🌏

New article! 💡 doi.org/10.1080/0964... I explore how #civilsociety & donors influence adaptation in Vietnam, and have a role in #accountability

@environmentalpol.bsky.social @deldemucan.bsky.social

First page of article 'Influencing climate change adaptation in authoritarian states: a deliberative systems analysis in Vietnam' by Wendy Conway-Lamb

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 16d

🔎 From Our Archives (open access): What is Q methodology and how can it be used to study public deliberation?

📖 Check out @lucyjparry.bsky.social chapter in our book, Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (Oxford University Press).

👉 Download the chapter here: academic.oup.com/book/44646/c...

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · 23d

ICYMI 🚨

Marit Hammond on how #deliberativedemocracy can be understood as 'a political culture marked by a citizen-initiated consciousness and motivation toward unending democratic social critique' ✊

⬇️ delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

📸 Sharing some snapshots from the JDD’s participation at the ECPR #DemocraticInnovations Standing Group Reception!

Check out the key points from our editor @sbussu.bsky.social's speech at the event 👇

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · 29d

Can deliberative mini-publics reduce confirmation bias? 🤔

In JDD’s newest article, Kaisa Herne, Kimmo Grönlund, and Peter Soderlund studied a local-level mini-public on the topic of transportation policies to answer this question. 🇫🇮

⬇️ delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Sep 2

▶️ ICYMI: Watch the latest seminar from our Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange series, Expanding the Demos: How Do Nonhumans Have Political Agency?
with Lakshmi Venugopal and @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social

📺 Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=eM9H3LzkpUw&feature=youtu.be

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Sep 4

🔔New Centre Publication (open access)

Building on the 2021 Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis, John Dryzek and co-authors explore how citizen deliberation can play a bigger, even institutionalised, role in global climate governance.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are delighted to celebrate two of our PhD students who recently earned their Doctor titles and will graduate at the upcoming University of Canberra graduation ceremony.

👩‍🎓Dr Friedel Marquardt and 👨‍🎓Dr Mohammad Abdul-Hwas

Read more about their PhDs on our LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Sep 9

Check out this open access resource by MosaicLab Co: "Facilitating Deliberation: A Practical Guide"

It offers insights to design and facilitate constructive conversations with step-by-step approaches, useful tips, and lessons from the field.

Download a copy here: www.mosaiclab.com.au/the-big-book

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 25d

Yesterday was international #democracyday!

Democracy grows when people come together to talk, listen, exchange ideas, test arguments, & imagine new futures. We thank our community of students, staff, associates & partners for their key work in keeping the democratic conversation alive, every day.

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Newest JDD article available now! ⬇️

Young Jee Kim analysed transcripts of online deliberations to examine whether #socialstatus translates into #deliberativeadvantage regarding how individuals deliberate and how opinions form. 💬

👉🏽 delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Aug 19

Upcoming Event in Victoria: The Big Deliberative Debrief | 27 August

Dr Emanuela Savini will represent the Centre at this event where the effectiveness of deliberative engagement as required by the Victorian Local Government Act 2020 is considered.

Register: events.humanitix.com/the-big-deli...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Aug 26

🛎️ New Centre Publication (open access) 🛎️

Congratulations to our Visiting Research Fellow, Dr Hali Aprimadya, on his new publication! His work offers a fresh perspective on policy implementation, grounded in the rich tradition of interpretive research.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Rethinking situated agency: an interpretive framework to policy implementation

www.tandfonline.com

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Aug 27

🔔 New Centre Publication (open access)

Latest publication by our PhD student @wendyconwaylamb.bsky.social and co-authors, including Centre associates Pierrick Chalaye & Emerson M. Sanchez in the new book by @oliverescobar.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub 🙌

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Aug 29

This week our PhD student Dakila Yee gave his confirmation seminar titled “Tipping Green? Discourses of Low-Carbon Transitions in the Philippines under a Populist Regime”, which examines how environmental governance and climate policies form under populist leadership in the Philippines.

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Last week, two @participedia.bsky.social Schools were held in China and Japan, with @hansasenbaum.bsky.social representing the Centre.

Hans explored how digital tools and AI can make democracy more deliberative and engaging.

👏 Congratulations to Participedia for this innovative teaching journey!

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

Newest Digest out now! 🚨

Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis & Camille Dobler reflect on three #innovations introduced in the Democratic Odyssey’s process design:

1️⃣ iterative composition
2️⃣ open consultation on the remit
3️⃣ centring lived experience

🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...

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