My name is Dannica Fleuss. I am a research fellow at the Institute of Future Media, Democracy& Society (FuJo) at Dublin City University (Ireland) and a research associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (University of Canberra, Australia) and am teaching intermittently as a senior lecturer at Hamburg University and Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany).
I am also the president of the non-profit association DemocracyNet, a co-convener of the UK PSA’s Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group and the German DVPW’s Teaching and Learning Specialist Group.
I held positions as a senior lecturer, research fellow and visiting professor for political science, political theory/philosophy and applied ethics at diverse universities across the globe.
My core research interests are understandings of democratic legitimacy, decolonial/intersectional and critical theory, climate change policy, empirical analyses of deliberation — and comparative assessments of SciFi stories.
Whenever I need a break from all the thinking, I am running, climbing or hiking — and passionately explore the world outside of libraries, offices and labs!
Recent Publications
Books:
NEW MONOGRAPH OUT: Radical Proceduralism. Democracy from Philosophical Principles to Political Institutions. Emerald Press.
Book Launch, UK Political Studies Association (PDD) on YouTube here
Book Review by S. Chambers (2022) here
(2024). African Women and Intellectual Leadership. Life Stories from Western Kenya. Routledge. (Co-edited with Maurice Amutabi, Emily Achieng Akuno & Humphrey J. Ojwang)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters:
(2024) Life Stories Matter! Leadership, Gender, Dislocation—and Seeing Myself as a Stranger. Afterword in Amutabi, M., Akuno, E., Ojwang, H.J. & Fleuss, D. (Eds.). African Women and Intellectual Leadership. Lifestories from Western Kenya. Routledge.
(2023). Challenging the Rules of the Game. How Deliberative Democrats Should Use the Tools of Participatory Governance. In Bussu, S. & Bua, A. (Eds.). Reclaiming Participatory Governance. Routledge.
(2023). Citizens’ Assemblies: Top-down or bottom-up? – Both, please!, in Reuchamps, M. , J. Vrydagh and Y. Welp (eds) Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies, De Gruyter Publisher, 141-154. (with Sonia Bussu).
(2022): Macro-Level Assessment of Deliberative Quality. In: Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Edited by: Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça, Oxford University Press, 129-147.
(2022). Understanding developments in Participatory Governance. A report on findings from a scoping review of the literature and expert interviews. Manchester University. ISBN: 9781910029787. (S. Bussu, Y. Golan & A. Hargreaves; with A. Bua, R. Falanga, D. Fleuß, C. Forde, E. Williams, M. Wojciechowska)
(2022). Review of D. Fleuss — Julia Maskivker: The Duty to Vote. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). The Review of Politics, 1-4. (Online first)
(2021) The Marginalized Democracies of the World. Democratic Theory 8(2), 1-18 (with Gagnon, J. P., Asenbaum, H., Bussu, S., Guasti, P., Dean, R. et al.).
(2021) Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation. In: Political Studies 69(2), 307-325 (with K. Helbig).
