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Overview

Simon Niemeyer is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Molecular Biology, Communication, Political Science and International Relations, and Business and International Management.

The research topics Niemeyer addresses include:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

They have contributed to several academic publications with selected recent papers as follows:

  • "Global citizen deliberation on genome editing" (2020), published in Science
  • "Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis" (2020), published in International Political Science Review
  • "How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason" (2023), published in American Political Science Review
  • "Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Public Engagement Imperative" (2020), published in The CRISPR Journal
  • "Psychological Mechanisms of Deliberative Transformation: The Role of Group Identity" (2020), published in Journal of Deliberative Democracy

Niemeyer has published a book titled Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features in 2021 through KU Leuven, which has received notable academic attention.

Frequent collaborators in Niemeyer's research include:

  • John S. Dryzek
  • Nicole Curato
  • Dianne Nicol
  • André Bächtiger
  • Francesco Veri

Their work appears in diverse publication venues, notably:

  • Science
  • American Political Science Review
  • International Political Science Review
  • The CRISPR Journal
  • Cambridge Prisms Precision Medicine

Best Publications

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

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

  • Reconciling Pluralism and Consensus as Political Ideals

    John S. Dryzek;Simon Niemeyer

  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

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

  • Discursive Representation

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  • On the use of imagery for climate change engagement

    Saffron J. O’Neill;Maxwell Boykoff;Simon Niemeyer;Sophie A. Day

  • Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research

    Nicole Curato;John S. Dryzek;Selen A. Ercan;Carolyn M. Hendriks

  • When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public Discussion in Deliberative Democracy:

    Robert E. Goodin;Simon J. Niemeyer

  • The Emancipatory Effect of Deliberation: Empirical Lessons from Mini-Publics

    Simon Niemeyer

  • The Ends of Deliberation: Meta‐consensus and Inter‐subjective Rationality as Ideal Outcomes

    Simon Niemeyer;John S. Dryzek

  • Health risk communication and amplification: learning from the MMR vaccination controversy

    Judith Petts;Simon Niemeyer

  • Deliberation in the Wilderness: Displacing Symbolic Politics

    Simon Niemeyer

  • Adaptation policy and community discourse: risk, vulnerability, and just transformation

    David Schlosberg;Lisette B. Collins;Simon Niemeyer

  • “What sceptics believe”: The effects of information and deliberation on climate change scepticism

    Kersty Hobson;Simon Niemeyer

  • Rapid climate change and society: assessing responses and thresholds.

    Simon Niemeyer;Judith Petts;Kersty Hobson

  • Environmental Valuation Analysis, Public Deliberation, and their Pragmatic Syntheses: A Critical Appraisal

    Simon Niemeyer;Clive L Spash

  • Public responses to climate change: The role of deliberation in building capacity for adaptive action

    Kersty Hobson;Simon Niemeyer

  • Informed consent in biobank research: a deliberative approach to the debate.

    David M. Secko;Nina Preto;Simon Niemeyer;Michael M. Burgess

  • Improving deliberative participation: connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems

    Andrea Felicetti;Simon Niemeyer;Nicole Curato

  • Global citizen deliberation on genome editing

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

  • Democracy and Climate Change: What Can Deliberative Democracy Contribute?

    Simon Niemeyer

  • Deliberative democracy and climate governance.

    John S. Dryzek;Simon Niemeyer

  • Deliberative Democracy: An Introduction

    André Bächtiger;Marco R. Steenbergen;Simon Niemeyer

  • Scaling up Deliberation to Mass Publics: Harnessing Minipublics in a Deliberative System

    Simon Niemeyer

  • Democracy and Climate Change: What Can Deliberative Democracy Contribute?’, Australian Journal of Politics and History , .

    SJ Niemeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Dryzek
John S. Dryzek University of Canberra
André Bächtiger
André Bächtiger University of Stuttgart
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin
Archon Fung
Archon Fung Harvard University
Dennis F. Thompson
Dennis F. Thompson Harvard University
Marco R. Steenbergen
Marco R. Steenbergen University of Zurich
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
Mark E. Warren
Mark E. Warren University of British Columbia
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman University of Rochester
Judith Petts
Judith Petts University of Birmingham

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