Articles by André Bächtiger

October 25, 2021

🦋 A night at the museum of democracy

André Bächtiger

Adopting the perspective of a museum curator, we can spot the pitfalls of Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposal to build a data mountain on democracy, argues André Bächtiger. But this perspective also helps identify how we should construct the museum to further our understanding of the concept

André Bächtiger

Professor of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research, University of Stuttgart

André's research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation and political communication as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the contexts of both representative institutions and mini-publics.

Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (co-edited with John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren, 2018)

Mapping and Measuring Deliberation (co-authored with John Parkinson, Oxford University Press 2019)

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