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Overview

John Gastil is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with a strong emphasis on communication and political science and international relations. Additional subfields include sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and public administration.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes studies published between 2020 and 2021, covering topics related to deliberative democracy and digital platforms. Selected recent papers include:

  • Scaling up Deliberation: Testing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Enhance the Deliberative Capacity of Citizens, 2020, Swiss Political Science Review
  • Do Voters Trust Deliberative Minipublics? Examining the Origins and Impact of Legitimacy Perceptions for the Citizens' Initiative Review, 2021, Political Behavior
  • How Deliberative Experiences Shape Subjective Outcomes: A Study of Fifteen Minipublics from 2010-2018, 2021, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • A Theoretical Model of How Digital Platforms for Public Consultation Can Leverage Deliberation to Boost Democratic Legitimacy, 2021, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Deliberation, Democracy, and the Digital Landscape, 2020, Political Studies

Frequent co-authors who collaborated extensively with John Gastil include:

  • Jane Suiter
  • Lala Muradova
  • David M. Farrell
  • Katherine R. Knobloch
  • Kristinn Már Ársælsson

Gastil's work has been published in notable venues such as:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Political Studies
  • Digital Government Research and Practice
  • Swiss Political Science Review

The main topics addressed by John Gastil span a diverse scope of issues within social sciences, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Best Publications

  • Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;John W. Gastil;Paul Slovic

  • Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Paul Slovic;John W. Gastil

  • Political Communication and Deliberation

    John W. Gastil

  • The deliberative democracy handbook : strategies for effective civic engagement in the twenty-first century

    John Gastil;Peter Levine

  • A Conceptual Definition and Theoretical Model of Public Deliberation in Small Face—to—Face Groups

    Stephanie Burkhalter;John Gastil;Todd Kelshaw

  • By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections

    John Gastil

  • Increasing Political Sophistication Through Public Deliberation

    John Gastil;James P Dillard

  • Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn’t, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;John Gastil

  • A Definition and Illustration of Democratic Leadership

    John Gastil

  • Democracy in small groups : participation, decision making, and communication

    John Gastil

  • Norms of Deliberation: An Inductive study

    Jane Mansbridge;Janette Hartz-Karp;Matthew Amengual;John W. Gastil

  • Generic pronouns and sexist language: The oxymoronic character of masculine generics

    John W. Gastil

  • Predicting Deliberative Conversation: The Impact of Discussion Networks, Media Use, and Political Cognitions

    Patricia Moy;John Gastil

  • Public Deliberation as the Organizing Principle of Political Communication Research

    John W. Gastil;Laura W. Black

  • Future Directions for Public Deliberation

    Peter Levine;Archon Fung;John W. Gastil

  • Democracy in motion : evaluating the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement

    Tina Nabatchi;John Gastil;Matt Leighninger;G. Michael Weiksner

  • Is Face-to-Face Citizen Deliberation a Luxury or a Necessity?

    John Gastil

  • Civic Awakening in the Jury Room: A Test of the Connection between Jury Deliberation and Political Participation

    John Gastil;E. Pierre Deess;Phil Weiser

  • Can Deliberative Minipublics Address the Cognitive Challenges of Democratic Citizenship

    Mark E. Warren;John Gastil

  • The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    John Gastil

  • Ideology, Attitude Change, and Deliberation in Small Face-to-Face Groups

    John Gastil;Laura Black;Kara Moscovitz

  • Of Attitudes and Engagement: Clarifying the Reciprocal Relationship Between Civic Attitudes and Political Participation

    John Gastil;Michael Andrew Xenos

  • Did They Deliberate? Applying an Evaluative Model of Democratic Deliberation to the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review

    Katherine R. Knobloch;John Gastil;Justin Reedy;Katherine Cramer Walsh

  • Methods for analyzing and measuring group deliberation

    Laura W. Black;Stephanie Burkhalter;John Gastil;Jennifer Stromer-Galley

  • Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

    Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;Paul Slovic

  • How Voters Decide: Information Processing During Election Campaigns byRichard R. Lau and David Redlawsk

    John Gastil

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan M. Kahan
Dan M. Kahan Yale University
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
Geoffrey L. Cohen
Geoffrey L. Cohen Stanford University
Graham Smith
Graham Smith University of Westminster
Michael A. Xenos
Michael A. Xenos University of Wisconsin–Madison
James Price Dillard
James Price Dillard Pennsylvania State University
C. K. Mertz
C. K. Mertz University of Oregon
Mark E. Warren
Mark E. Warren University of British Columbia
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
Erik Olin Wright
Erik Olin Wright University of Wisconsin–Madison

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