Publications

2026

Lüscher, S. & Serdült, U. (2026) DAO Decision-Making Simulation for Legislative Consultation: The Case of the Swiss E-ID Law 2019, Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui HI, USA, January 6-9, 2026, pp. 2310-2319. (PDF)
Lüscher, S., Serdült, U., Bernhard, L., & Cheon, J. (2026). Wer profitiert von einer Einführung von Demokratiegutscheinen? (PDF)
Veri, F., & Stojanović, N. (2026). Institutional configurations and deliberative innovation: A comparative analysis of minipublic adoption across advanced democracies. European Political Science. (PDF)
Stojanović, N., & Veri, F. (2026). Connecting minipublics with direct democracy: Switzerland and beyond. In L. Cordier & Y. Sintomer (Eds.), Handbook of Participatory Democracy. Edward Elgar Publishing. (PDF)
Veri, F., & Stojanović, N. (2026). Does federalism facilitate permanent minipublics? Politics and Governance, Vol. 14. (PDF)

2025

Benli-Trichet, M., Angelico, F., Luiza de Moraes Azenha, A., Barlay, M., Berkachy, R., Cheon, J., Colosante, L., Fornerod, L., Gohourou, D., Hofmann, G., Huang, H., Kalberer, S., Lorusso, R., Markov, Č., Mavrov, B., Picco-Schwendener, A., Dea Rachmantya, A., Seldon, N., Su Seo, H., Vettukalel, M., Villeneuve, J., Wheatley, J., Wüthrich, J. & Serdült, U. (2025) Unraveling the digital governance systems divide. In: Proceedings EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference, Ongoing Research, Workshops, and Posters, August 31–September 4, 2025, University for Continuing Education, Krems, Austria, vol. 4127. CEUR-WS.org, 2025, pp. 1–12. (PDF)
Gianni, M. (2025). Pour une conception démocratique de l’intégration. terra cognita, 41, 18–21. (PDF)
Kübler, D., Gut, R., Heimann, A., Stojanović, N. & Colombo, C. (2025). Who supports deliberative mini-publics in a context of direct democracy? The role of trust and dissatisfaction. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 91(3): 427-447. (PDF)
Kovacs, M., Buryakov, D., Gohourou, D. & Serdült, U. (2025) Temporal Dynamics and Success Patterns of Online Petitions: A Time-Series Clustering Approach. In: Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 103–109. (PDF)
Veri, F. (2025). Fostering reasoning in the politically disengaged: The role of deliberative minipublics. Political Studies Review, 23(1), 254–275. (PDF)
Veri, F. & Niemeyer, S. (2025). Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations. European Political Science Review, 1-11. (PDF)

2024

Buryakov, D., Kovacs, M., Serdült, U. & Kryssanov, V. (2024) Enhancing the Design of Voting Advice Applications with BERT Language Model, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7.1343214. (PDF)
Kübler, D. (2024). Citizen participation through direct legislation: a road to success? A perspective from Switzerland. Global Public Policy and Governance, 4(2), 184-196. (PDF)
Kübler, D., & Rochat, P. E. (2024). Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: Factors, reasons, and suggestions. European Political Science Review, 1–20. (PDF)
Niemeyer, S., Veri, F., Dryzek, J. S., & Bächtiger, A. (2024). How deliberation happens: enabling deliberative reason. American Political Science Review, 118(1), 345-362. (PDF)
Sanchez-Mazas, V. (2024). A Systemic Theory of Democracy: Towards the Democratic Diagnosis of Political Systems. Lausanne: EPFL Press. (link)
Van Dijk, L., Werner, H., & Marien, S. (2024). The perceived problem‐solving potential of deliberative minipublics: Evidence from a survey of Belgian citizens. European Journal of Political Research, 63(3), 862–883. (PDF)
Veri, F., & Maier, F. (2024). Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization. Political Psychology. (PDF)

2023

Geisler, A. M. (2023). Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: Evidence from Switzerland. Policy Studies, 44(6), 728–747. (PDF)
Heimann, A., Gut, R., Veri, F., Kübler, D., & Stojanović, N. (2023). Bürgerpanels für mehr Klimaschutz im Kanton Zürich. Schlussbericht. Aarau: Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau. (PDF)
Stojanović, N. (2023). Citizens’ assemblies and direct democracy. In M. Reuchamps, J. Vrydagh, & Y. Welp (Eds.), Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies (pp. 185–197). Berlin: De Gruyter. (PDF)
Stojanović, N. (2023). Institutionnalisation des conflits à travers la démocratie directe. In R. Magni-Berton & L. Morel (Eds.), Démocraties directes (pp. 359–367). Bruxelles: Éditions Larcier/Bruylant. (PDF)
Veri, F. (2023). Mapping democratic innovations: A bottom-up empirical perspective. Representation, 59(2), 171–188. (PDF)
Veri, F., & Sass, J. (2023). The domestic democratic peace: How democracy constrains political violence. International political science review, 44(5), 676-693. (PDF)