This two-study package theorizes connective democracy as a means of enabling the type of
democratic discourse envisioned by deliberative democracy in highly polarized political …

Real-world political discussions usually mix reason-giving and storytelling in complex ways,
but the interplay between these practices remains essentially unexamined. This article …

Inclusion is a central tenet in deliberative democratic theory and an important indicator of the
quality of a deliberative mini-public (DMP). Empirical measures of deliberation assess the …

The effort to develop a systemic approach to include different arenas, categories of actors
and communicative interactions in the analysis has been central to theoretical inquiries and …

This paper provides a big-data-scale assessment of the deliberative qualities of online
abortion discussions on Twitter in the United States (2020) and Ireland (2018) by specifically …

O presente artigo busca discutir a dimensão temporal de conflitos sociais a partir das lentes
da abordagem deliberacionista de democracia. Busca-se, assim, suprir uma lacuna dessa …

What are the impacts of teaching deliberation on students' attitudes in practical discussions?
This study presents research findings from a field experiment involving more than 500 …

Most research dealing with deliberation focuses on individual-level data, and the epistemic
dimension of deliberation is rarely analyzed. Drawing on Habermas's “space of reasons” …

This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the
2020 US primary debates using a state-of-the-art machine-learning model. Informing the …

This chapter discusses the growing analytical interest of citizens' assemblies (CAs) research
in the neighbouring field of political communication in recent years. This involves (i) …