#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - Institutional configurations and deliberative innovation: A comparative analysis of minipublic adoption across advanced democracies - https://cup.org/4rwIOCT - @francescoveri.bsky.social & @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social #FirstView

Why do some democracies adopt deliberative mini-publics while others do not? Our new open-access article in European Political Science, co-authored with Nenad Stojanovic, explores this question. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Can AI make democratic decisions? Short answer: no. In our #CSCW2025 paper (with G. Umbelino), we benchmark LLMs’ reasons vs human collective reasoning. Findings: humans outperform; a few frontier models show partial coherence; none beat humans. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

my latest paper @methodinnovations.bsky.social. I present a framework combining Q-concourse surveys with multifactor analysis and clustering to map discourses from large-N surveys. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mapping discourses through Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components - Francesco Veri, 2025

This article proposes a methodological framework that combines a Q-concourse questionnaire with Multiple Factor Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering on Principa...

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EPSR early view: Veri and Niemeyer on "Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The German election campaign has been dominated by migration. How might it affect pol behavior? Francesco Veri and I show that negative news coverage on migration triggers willingness for hostile political action. Read more in our Political Psychology article now published here (open access!) 👇

Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization

Radical right-wing groups are often linked to conspiratorial beliefs that can fuel political extremism but understanding how these beliefs translate into real-world action remains a challenge, as the....

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Publication Alert! 🚨 Our latest research by @franziskamaier.bsky.social and Francesco Veri explores migration attitudes among the radical right 🇮🇹. We find that while media exposure does not alter core extremist beliefs, it triggers emotional responses that ultimately shape political behavior. 🔍📖

Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization

Radical right-wing groups are often linked to conspiratorial beliefs that can fuel political extremism but understanding how these beliefs translate into real-world action remains a challenge, as the...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

#OpenAccess from the European Political Science Review - Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations - cup.org/44gY65T - Francesco Veri & Simon Niemeyer cc @ecpr.bsky.social