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I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Future Media, Democracy & Society at Dublin City University (Ireland) and a research associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (University of Canberra, Australia).
Between 2016 and 2022, I have been a research fellow and senior lecturer in political theory at Helmut Schmidt University (Hamburg).
I am also a co-convenor of the PSA's Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, a co-convenor of the DVPW’s Teaching and Learning Specialist Group and an Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary Journal Democratic Theory as well as a member of the Switzerland-based DemocracyNet.
I hold a MA in philosophy and political science and a PhD in political science from Heidelberg University. From 2014 until 2017, I worked as a lecturer at the departments of political science and philosophy at Heidelberg University.
My research focuses on theories of democratic legitimacy, theoretical and empirical studies of deliberative democracy, and approaches aiming at decolonizing democratic theory.
Latest Publications
Recent Monograph:
Fleuß, D. (2021): Radical Proceduralism. Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions. Bingley: Emerald Press.
✊🏽PODCAST OUT NOW: Conversation about Radical Proceduralism - and responses from diverse places across the globe can be found 👉🏼 Here
Recent Articles:
**Fleuß, D. (2022): Macro-Level Assessment of Deliberative Quality. In: Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Edited by: Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça, Oxford University Press, 129-147.
*(forthcoming). Citizens’ Assemblies: Top-down or bottom-up? – Both, please!, in Reuchamps, M. , J. Vrydagh and Y. Welp (eds) Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies, De Gruyter Publisher. (with S. Bussu)
(2022). Understanding developments in Participatory Governance. A report on findings from a scoping review of the literature and expert interviews. Manchester University. ISBN: 9781910029787. (S. Bussu, Y. Golan & A. Hargreaves; with A. Bua, R. Falanga, D. Fleuß, C. Forde, E. Williams, M. Wojciechowska)
Fleuß, D. (2022): Review - Julia Maskivker ‘The Duty to Vote’, Oxford University Press, in Review of Politics, 462-465.
Fleuß, D. (2022): Alternatives to Fake News [Interview with Maren van Treel]. In: Development + Cooperation 11/2022, 9-10.
*(2021): Editorial: The Marginalized Democracies of the World. Democratic Theory 8(2), 1-18. (with J-P. Gagnon, H. Asenbaum, S. Bussu et al.)
Almeida, S., Bussu, S., Fleuß, D., Odour, R.M.J., Gagnon, J.P. (2021): Decolonizing Democratic Innovations. Beyond the White and Western Gaze. In Blog-Serie „Agora: Democracy Beyond the West“, Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group der Political Studies Association (UK).
**(2021): Measuring Nation States' Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation. In: Political Studies 69(2), 307-325. (with K. Helbig)
**Esau, K., Fleuß, D., & Nienhaus, S.-M. (2021): Different Deliberative Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberations on Immigration Policy in Germany. Policy & Internet 13(1), 86-112.
Google scholar profile here
Contact details:
email: dannica.fleuss(at)dcu.ie
Postal address: Dublin City University, Collins Ave Ext, Whitehall, Dublin 9