Dr. Dannica Fleuss
Research Fellow / Senior Lecturer

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Monograph

Fleuß, D. (
2021): Radical Proceduralism. Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions. Bingley: Emerald Press.

Review of the book by Simone Chambers in Contemporary Political Theory here

Monograph/PhD Dissertation

Fleuß, D. (2017). “Prozeduren, Rechte, Demokratie. Das legitimatorische Potential von Verfahren für politische Systeme.” [English Title: “The Normative Legitimacy of Democracies. On the Limits of Proceduralism”]. Heidelberg University


Journal Articles

*Gagnon, J.P., Asenbaum, H., Fleuß D. et al. (2021): Editorial: The Marginalized Democracies of the World. Democratic Theory 8(2), 1-18

**Fleuß, D. & Helbig, K. (2021): Measuring Nation States' Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation. In: Political Studies 68(1), 307-325.

**Gagnon, J-P. & Fleuß, D. (2020): The Case for Extending Measures of Democracy in the World. 'Beneath', 'Above', and 'Outside' the National Level. In: Political Geography 83, 102276.

**Esau, K., Fleuß, D., & Nienhaus, S.-M. (2020): 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.

**Fleuß, D. & Schaal, G.S. (2020): What are we doing when we are doing democratic theory? In: Democratic Theory 6(2), 12-26.

**Fleuß, D., Schaal, G.S. & Helbig, K. (2019): Erkenntnistheoretische Herausforderungen der Demokratieforschung unter Bedingung der Digitalisierung. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Antwort. [Epistemological Problems of a Valid Evaluation of Democratic Performance in a Digitalized World and How to Address Them. A Scientific-Theoretical-Perspective.] In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly 60(3), 461-486. 

*Schaal G.S. Dumm, S. & Fleuß, D. (2019). Die vielen Wahrheiten algorithmenbasierter Interpretation: „Die Wahrheit über Postfaktizität!“ dekonstruiert. [Deconstructing ‘The Truth about Post-Truth’. The Contingencies of Algorithm-based text analyses.] In: Zeitschrift für Politik 29(2), 263-285. 

**Fleuß, D. (2018): Politische Theorie anwendungsbezogen lehren. Lehrende zwischen normativer Zurückhaltung und kritischer Stellungnahme. [Teaching Normative Political Theory. How to Balance Normative Moderation and Adopting Political Positions in Theory Seminars.] In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly] 59(4), 719-736. 

**Fleuß, D., Helbig, K. & Schaal, G.S. (2018): Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and How to Respond. In: Politics and Governance,6(1), 11-21. 

Schaal, G.S., Fleuß, D. & Dumm, S. (2017): Die Wahrheit über Postfaktizität. [The Truth about Post-Truth.] In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 44-45/2017, 31-38.

**double blind peer-reviewed / *peer-reviewed

 

Articles in Edited Volumes

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.

Fleuß, D. (forthcoming). Challenging the Rules of the Game. The Role of Bottom-up Participatory Experiments for Deliberative Democracy. In Reclaiming Participatory Governance. (Eds. Bussu, S. & Bua, A.). Routledge



Bussi, S. & Fleuß, D. (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)

Fleuß, D. (2020): Kompetenz, „Durchregieren“, Deliberation: Covid-19 und die deutsche DemokratieIn: Ewert, Christian; Heyne, Lea (Eds.) (2021): One Year with Covid-19. Norderstedt: BoD. ISBN: 9783753402284.

Fleuß, D. (2020): Does Diversity Trump Specialisation? Die Perspektive des wissenschaftstheoretischen Pragmatismus auf eine interdisziplinäre Analyse politischer Legitimität. [Does Diversity Trump Specialisation? A Pragmatist Perspective on Interdisciplinary Studies of Political Legitimacy] In: Europas südliche Ränder. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Asymmetrien, Hierarchien und Postkolonialismus-Verlierer. (Ed. : Monika Albrecht). Bielefeld: Transcript.

Fleuß, D. (2019): Zur Balance von Transparenz und Verborgenheit: das komplementäre Verhältnis von öffentlicher und nicht-öffentlicher Kommunikation in Jürgen Habermas‘ Demokratietheorie. [Balancing Transparency and Secrecy. The Relationship Between Public and Non-Public Communication in Habermas’s Democratic Theory.] In: „Staat und Geheimnis – Der Kampf um die (Un)Sichtbarkeit der Macht“. (Ed.: Jörn Knobloch). Baden-Baden: Nomos,  115-140. 


Research Reports

(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)

Book Reviews

Fleuß, D. (2022): Review - Julia Maskivker ‘The Duty to Vote’, Oxford University Press, in Review of Politics.

Fleuß, D. (2019): Radikale Volkssouveränität und Rechtsmethodik: Ingeborg Maus‘ Kritik des Verhältnisses von Demokratie und Justiz. Review ad „Ingeborg Maus: Justiz als gesellschaftliches Über-Ich. Zur Position der Rechtsprechung in der Demokratie, Berlin: Suhrkamp.“ In: Ethik und Gesellschaft 1/2019.


Selected publications for the broader public / Publicity work

Fleuß, D. (2022): Alternatives to Fake News [Interview with Maren van Treel]. In: Development + Cooperation 11/2022, 9-10.

Fleuss, D. (2021): Gagnon's Data Mountain. A Lookout Point for the Revolutions to Come. In The Loop (ECPR Political Science Blog), Blog Series "The Sciences of Democracy".

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).

Fleuß, D. (2020): Warum Politische Theorie nicht praxisfern sein muss. In Politikum Sonderheft 2020: Wem nutzt die Politikwissenschaft?, 11-16.

Fleuß, D. (2020): Das digitale Semester als Herausforderung, Chance, Risiko - aber für wen? Blog article, Theorieblog, "Forum e-Semester".

Fleuß, D. (2019): Why Vote? Using Political Theory to Encourage Political Participation. Blog article, APSA's "Raise the Vote"-Campaign. Available at: Political Science Now

Fleuß, D. (2019): Politisch sensible normative Fragen diskutieren – aber wie? Guest lectures zu Frauenrechten, feministischer Theorie und der Gender Gap in Tansania. Blog article on guest lectures about Women's Rights and gender equality in Tanzania, at Blog AK Hochschullehre, DVPW.

Fleuß. D. (2019). Stand up, don’t be a Stoic! In Epoché. Philosophy Monthly. Issue 23, June 2019. Available online: https:/epochemagazin.org

Radio F.R.E.I - Radiobroadcast, Public panel discussion: Political discourses in Social Media: Risk or Opportunity for Democracy? [German: Mitschnitt Online | Der politische Diskurs in den sozialen Medien - Chance oder Risiko für unsere Demokratie], University of Erfurt, May 14, 2018. 14. Mai 2018. Available online: Radio F.R.E.I 

Fleuß, D. (2017). Gemeinsames Gedankenexperimentieren in der Hochschullehre. [Blog article on the benefits of and strategies for implementing thought experiments in teaching political theory at university level.]  Available online: http://www.hochschullehre-politik.de/2017/06/19/gemeinsames-gedankenexperimentieren-in-der-hochschullehre/

 

Working Papers

Fleuß, D. & Schaal, G.S. (2018): The Integrity of Deliberative Procedures – A Research Agenda for Measuring Deliberative Quality with a Systemic Framework. Presented IPSA World Congress 2018, Brisbane.

Fleuß, D. & Helbig, K. (2018): Measuring the Embeddedness of Democratic Innovations and Representative Democracy with a Systemic Framework. The degree of transmissions as an indicator for the problem-solving potential of democratic innovations. Presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2018, University of Nicosia.

Schaal, G.S./Helbig, K. & Fleuß, D. (2017): Measuring Democracy in the Age of Digitalization. Theoretical Issues, Methodological Concerns, and Exemplary Solutions. (Online: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PaperDetails.aspx?PaperID=37051&EventID=96)