Dannica Fleuß
Biographic Data
| ID | 462384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dannica Fleuß |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dannica |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleuß |
| SIGNATURE | FLEUß D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmut Schmidt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4214-4806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Peacebuilding Strategies With Deliberative Ideals: Horizontal and/or Vertical Approaches
Many peacebuilding approaches strongly focus on vertical or ‘top-down’ processes instigated by states and international actors. At the same time, theoretical critiques and new empirical research highlight the importance of horizontal or ‘bottom-up’ processes involving cooperation at grassroots levels for sustainable peacebuilding measures. These questions are particularly pertinent for this Special Issue which addresses sustainable peacebuilding …
Transmissions, Decisions, Discourses – A Methodological Framework for Measuring and Comparing Democratic Innovations’ Policy‐Impact(s)
Democratic innovations are increasingly used to counteract crisis phenomena such as citizen disengagement or disaffection. But to offer a cure, democratic innovations must be embedded within the democratic system; there must be a healthy “flow in communication” (henceforth: transmissions) between different democratic spaces. Yet so far there is no comprehensive conceptual‐methodological framework that allows for systematically assessing transmiss…
Macro-level Assessment of Deliberative Quality
This chapter outlines a strategy for assessing deliberative quality at a systemic level, that is, for measuring the ‘macro-deliberativeness’ of democratic political systems. To meet the challenges associated with this enterprise, it suggests combining two strands of research: the theoretical groundwork of systemic deliberative theory and the methodological guidelines of democracy measurements. The chapter outlines recommendations for conceptualiz…
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Different Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberation on Immigration Policy in Germany
One major strand of contemporary research on political participation addresses online deliberation. Over time, online deliberation has become increasingly pluralistic. Our study applies a framework derived from systemic deliberative theory to evaluate different online deliberation processes on German immigration policy. A crucial premise of the systemic deliberative theory is that the quality of deliberation varies systematically between differen…
The Marginalized Democracies of the World
This introductory article to Democratic Theory' s special issue on the marginalized democracies of the world begins by presenting the lexical method for understanding democracy. It is argued that the lexical method is better than the normative and analytical methods at finding democracies in the world. The argument then turns to demonstrating, mainly through computational research conducted within the Google Books catalog, that an empirically dem…
Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation
A theoretically reflected and empirically valid measurement of nation states’ democratic quality must include an assessment of polities’ deliberativeness. This article examines the assessment of deliberativeness suggested by two sophisticated contemporary measurements of democratic quality, that is, the Democracy Barometer and the Varieties of Democracy-project. We feature two sets of challenges, each measurement of deliberativeness must meet: Fi…
Radical Proceduralism: Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions
Radical Proceduralism bridges the gap between political philosophy and practical institutional experimentation asking us to bring citizens back in and to engage them in a dialogue about ‘the rules of the democratic game’ and proposing institutional devices that figure as ‘conversation starters’ and facilitate such dialogues
The case for extending measures of democracy in the world "Beneath", "Above", and "Outside" the national level
This article applies spatial theory, or the view that phenomena are distributed in space, to democracy. This analysis demonstrates that plural (two or more) democratic practices are evident in three spatial categories: (1) vertical stratification (i.e. at different levels of governance), (2) horizontal separation (i.e. among different agents operating at each level of governance), and (3) social association (i.e. in workplaces, families, schools)…
What Are We Doing When We Are Doing Democratic Theory
The article analyzes the (often implicit) understanding of democratic theory that is presupposed by scholars who engage in this practice and provides an answer to the question: “What are we doing when we are doing democratic theory?” We flesh out the core features of this scholarly activity by relating it to and differentiating it from assessments made from the perspective of political philosophy and political science. We argue that democratic th…
Die vielen Wahrheiten algorithmenbasierter Interpretation: „Die Wahrheit über Postfaktizität“ dekonstruiert
Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and How to Respond
Although measuring democratic deliberation is necessary for a valid measurement of the performance of democracies, it poses serious theoretical and methodological challenges. The most serious problem in the context of research on democratic performance is the need for a theoretical and methodological approach for “upscaling” the measurement of deliberation from the micro and meso level to the macro level. The systemic approach offers a useful fra…
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation
A theoretically reflected and empirically valid measurement of nation states’ democratic quality must include an assessment of polities’ deliberativeness. This article examines the assessment of deliberativeness suggested by two sophisticated contemporary measurements of democratic quality, that is, the Democracy Barometer and the Varieties of Democracy-project. We feature two sets of challenges, each measurement of deliberativeness must meet: Fi…
The Marginalized Democracies of the World
This introductory article to Democratic Theory' s special issue on the marginalized democracies of the world begins by presenting the lexical method for understanding democracy. It is argued that the lexical method is better than the normative and analytical methods at finding democracies in the world. The argument then turns to demonstrating, mainly through computational research conducted within the Google Books catalog, that an empirically dem…
Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and How to Respond
Although measuring democratic deliberation is necessary for a valid measurement of the performance of democracies, it poses serious theoretical and methodological challenges. The most serious problem in the context of research on democratic performance is the need for a theoretical and methodological approach for “upscaling” the measurement of deliberation from the micro and meso level to the macro level. The systemic approach offers a useful fra…
Radical Proceduralism: Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions
Radical Proceduralism bridges the gap between political philosophy and practical institutional experimentation asking us to bring citizens back in and to engage them in a dialogue about ‘the rules of the democratic game’ and proposing institutional devices that figure as ‘conversation starters’ and facilitate such dialogues
The case for extending measures of democracy in the world "Beneath", "Above", and "Outside" the national level
This article applies spatial theory, or the view that phenomena are distributed in space, to democracy. This analysis demonstrates that plural (two or more) democratic practices are evident in three spatial categories: (1) vertical stratification (i.e. at different levels of governance), (2) horizontal separation (i.e. among different agents operating at each level of governance), and (3) social association (i.e. in workplaces, families, schools)…
What Are We Doing When We Are Doing Democratic Theory
The article analyzes the (often implicit) understanding of democratic theory that is presupposed by scholars who engage in this practice and provides an answer to the question: “What are we doing when we are doing democratic theory?” We flesh out the core features of this scholarly activity by relating it to and differentiating it from assessments made from the perspective of political philosophy and political science. We argue that democratic th…
Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and How to Respond
Although measuring democratic deliberation is necessary for a valid measurement of the performance of democracies, it poses serious theoretical and methodological challenges. The most serious problem in the context of research on democratic performance is the need for a theoretical and methodological approach for “upscaling” the measurement of deliberation from the micro and meso level to the macro level. The systemic approach offers a useful fra…
What Are We Doing When We Are Doing Democratic Theory
The article analyzes the (often implicit) understanding of democratic theory that is presupposed by scholars who engage in this practice and provides an answer to the question: “What are we doing when we are doing democratic theory?” We flesh out the core features of this scholarly activity by relating it to and differentiating it from assessments made from the perspective of political philosophy and political science. We argue that democratic th…
Die vielen Wahrheiten algorithmenbasierter Interpretation: „Die Wahrheit über Postfaktizität“ dekonstruiert
The case for extending measures of democracy in the world "Beneath", "Above", and "Outside" the national level
This article applies spatial theory, or the view that phenomena are distributed in space, to democracy. This analysis demonstrates that plural (two or more) democratic practices are evident in three spatial categories: (1) vertical stratification (i.e. at different levels of governance), (2) horizontal separation (i.e. among different agents operating at each level of governance), and (3) social association (i.e. in workplaces, families, schools)…
Different Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberation on Immigration Policy in Germany
One major strand of contemporary research on political participation addresses online deliberation. Over time, online deliberation has become increasingly pluralistic. Our study applies a framework derived from systemic deliberative theory to evaluate different online deliberation processes on German immigration policy. A crucial premise of the systemic deliberative theory is that the quality of deliberation varies systematically between differen…
The Marginalized Democracies of the World
This introductory article to Democratic Theory' s special issue on the marginalized democracies of the world begins by presenting the lexical method for understanding democracy. It is argued that the lexical method is better than the normative and analytical methods at finding democracies in the world. The argument then turns to demonstrating, mainly through computational research conducted within the Google Books catalog, that an empirically dem…
Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation
A theoretically reflected and empirically valid measurement of nation states’ democratic quality must include an assessment of polities’ deliberativeness. This article examines the assessment of deliberativeness suggested by two sophisticated contemporary measurements of democratic quality, that is, the Democracy Barometer and the Varieties of Democracy-project. We feature two sets of challenges, each measurement of deliberativeness must meet: Fi…
Radical Proceduralism: Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions
Radical Proceduralism bridges the gap between political philosophy and practical institutional experimentation asking us to bring citizens back in and to engage them in a dialogue about ‘the rules of the democratic game’ and proposing institutional devices that figure as ‘conversation starters’ and facilitate such dialogues
Macro-level Assessment of Deliberative Quality
This chapter outlines a strategy for assessing deliberative quality at a systemic level, that is, for measuring the ‘macro-deliberativeness’ of democratic political systems. To meet the challenges associated with this enterprise, it suggests combining two strands of research: the theoretical groundwork of systemic deliberative theory and the methodological guidelines of democracy measurements. The chapter outlines recommendations for conceptualiz…
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Rethinking Peacebuilding Strategies With Deliberative Ideals: Horizontal and/or Vertical Approaches
Many peacebuilding approaches strongly focus on vertical or ‘top-down’ processes instigated by states and international actors. At the same time, theoretical critiques and new empirical research highlight the importance of horizontal or ‘bottom-up’ processes involving cooperation at grassroots levels for sustainable peacebuilding measures. These questions are particularly pertinent for this Special Issue which addresses sustainable peacebuilding …
Transmissions, Decisions, Discourses – A Methodological Framework for Measuring and Comparing Democratic Innovations’ Policy‐Impact(s)
Democratic innovations are increasingly used to counteract crisis phenomena such as citizen disengagement or disaffection. But to offer a cure, democratic innovations must be embedded within the democratic system; there must be a healthy “flow in communication” (henceforth: transmissions) between different democratic spaces. Yet so far there is no comprehensive conceptual‐methodological framework that allows for systematically assessing transmiss…
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