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André Bächtiger

André Bächtiger

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Political Science

D-Index
32
Citations
6271
World Ranking
988
National Ranking
48

Overview

André Bächtiger is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broad fields of social sciences, with specific focus on political science and international relations, as well as communication and sociology. Their work also touches on areas related to artificial intelligence and molecular biology.

The scientist's scholarly output includes numerous publications covering a range of topics. Key areas of study include social media and politics, electoral systems and political participation, e-government and public services, social capital and networks, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, populism and right-wing movements, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Bächtiger has published extensively in several prominent academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • American Political Science Review
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Harvard Dataverse

Recent papers authored by Bächtiger and related researchers include:

  • Taking the Goals of Deliberation Seriously: A Differentiated View on Equality and Equity in Deliberative Designs and Processes, 2020, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue, 2020, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Global citizen deliberation on genome editing, 2020, Science
  • Catching the 'Deliberative Wave'? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums, 2022, British Journal of Political Science
  • How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason, 2023, American Political Science Review

Their work has been cited by other scholars, with notable citation counts reflecting varying influence across publications.

Bächtiger's frequent collaborators include:

  • John S. Dryzek
  • Saskia Goldberg
  • Simon Niemeyer
  • Nicole Curato
  • Francesco Veri

The scientist is also an author of books published by Cambridge University Press. One notable book is Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times, published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Deliberative Politics in Action: Analyzing Parliamentary Discourse

    Jürg Steiner;André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Measuring Political Deliberation: A Discourse Quality Index

    Marco R Steenbergen;André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Jürg Steiner;Jürg Steiner

  • Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, their Blind Spots, and Complementarities

    André Bächtiger;Simon Niemeyer;Michael Neblo;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

    André Bächtiger;Jane Mansbridge;John Dryzek;Mark Warren

  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

    John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Simone Chambers;Joshua Cohen

  • Mapping and Measuring Deliberation

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  • Deliberative mini-publics : involving citizens in the democratic process

    Kimmo Grönlund;André Bächtiger;Maija Setälä

  • Mapping and Measuring Deliberation: Towards a New Deliberative Quality

    André Bächtiger;John Parkinson

  • The Deliberative Dimensions of Legislatures

    André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Marco R Steenbergen;Jürg Steiner

  • Deliberative Democracy

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  • Global citizen deliberation on genome editing

    John S. Dryzek;Dianne Nicol;Simon Niemeyer;Sonya Pemberton

  • Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly

    John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Karolina Milewicz

  • Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums

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  • Deliberative Abilities and Influence in a Transnational Deliberative Poll (EuroPolis)

    Marlène Gerber;André Bächtiger;Susumu Shikano;Simon Reber

  • Empirische Deliberationsforschung – eine systematische Übersicht

    André Bächtiger;Dominik Wyss

  • Small Differences that Matter: The Impact of Discussion Modalities on Deliberative Outcomes

    Lucio Baccaro;André Bächtiger;Marion Deville

  • Symposium: Toward More Realistic Models of Deliberative Democracy Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, Their Blind Spots and Complementarities*

    André Bächtiger;Simon Niemeyer;Michael Neblo;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • The Real World of Deliberation. A Comparative Study of its Favorable Conditions in Legislatures

    Andre Bachtiger;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Deliberative and non-deliberative persuasion: Mechanisms of opinion formation in EuroPolis:

    Marlène Gerber;André Bächtiger;Irena Fiket;Marco Steenbergen

  • Debate and Deliberation in Legislatures

    André Bächtiger

  • Towards a new era of deliberative mini-publics

    André Bächtiger;Maija Setälä;Kimmo Grönlund

  • What drives democratisation in Asia and Africa

    Wolf Linder;André Bächtiger

  • Deliberative Politics in Action: Contents

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  • Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Nicole Curato;Julien Vrydagh;André Bächtiger

  • Deliberative Democracy: An Introduction

    André Bächtiger;Marco R. Steenbergen;Simon Niemeyer

  • What drives the polarisation and moderation of opinions? Evidence from a Finnish citizen deliberation experiment on immigration

    Marina Lindell;André Bächtiger;Kimmo Grönlund;Kaisa Herne

  • A Decline in the Quality of Debate? The Evolution of Cognitive Complexity in Swiss Parliamentary Debates on Immigration (1968–2014)

    Dominik Wyss;Simon Beste;André Bächtiger

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco R. Steenbergen
Marco R. Steenbergen University of Zurich
John S. Dryzek
John S. Dryzek University of Canberra
Simon Niemeyer
Simon Niemeyer University of Canberra
Mark E. Warren
Mark E. Warren University of British Columbia
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
Dennis F. Thompson
Dennis F. Thompson Harvard University
Archon Fung
Archon Fung Harvard University
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman University of Rochester
James S. Fishkin
James S. Fishkin Stanford University

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