About

Dr Hans Asenbaum is a Senior Research fellow Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. His research interests include identity and inclusion in new participatory spaces, digital politics, and theories of deliberative, participatory and radical democracy. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Communication Theory, Politics & Gender, the European Journal of Social Theory, and Political Studies. Hans is Co-convener of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association in the UK.

After defending his thesis at the University of Westminster, he held a position as Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He has been invited for research visits and public lectures in Germany, Brazil, and Australia and received several grants and scholarships.

Key Publications

Asenbaum, H. (2023). The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Asenbaum, H., Chenault, R., Harris, C., Hassan, A., Hierro, C., Houldsworth, S., … II, T. J. W. (2023). A Democratic Theory of Life: Living Democracy with Black Lives Matter. Theoria, 70(176), 1–33. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2023.7017601

Asenbaum, H. (2022). Doing Democratic Theory Democratically. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1–12. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221105072

Ercan, S., Asenbaum, H., Curato, N., & Mendonça, R. F. (Eds.). (2022). Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mendonça, R. F., Ercan, S. A., & Asenbaum, H. (2020). More than Words: A Multidimensional Approach to Deliberative Democracy. Political Studies, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321720950561

Asenbaum, H. (2018). Anonymity and Democracy: Absence as Presence in the Public Sphere. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 459–472. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000163

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