Goethe-Universität — Visiting Fellows

Research Unit 'Democratic Innovations'

Visiting Fellows

Nemanja Andjelkovic

Nemanja Andjelkovic is currently a PhD student in Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade and a guest researcher/student at Goethe University focusing on democratic innovations, policy narratives and the process of democratization of hybrid regimes. In addition, he works as a Junior Researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade and is acting as a Secretary of the Laboratory for Active Citizenship and Democratic Innovations. His other interests include democratic experimentalism, agonistic democracy, governance of the commons and political ecology.

Prof. Dr. Nenad Stojanović

Nenad Stojanović is a Swiss National Science Foundation SNF Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Associate Researcher at the Center for Democracy Aarau, and Private Lecturer at the University of Lucerne.

His research focuses on institutions and challenges of democracy in multicultural and multilingual societies. His publications include Dialogue sur les quotas: Penser la représentation dans une démocratie multiculturelle (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po 2013; Italian translation: Dialogo sulle quote, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014), Democracy in the European Union: A Swiss Contribution to the Debate (Zurich: Schulthess; ed. with D. Kübler), and Multilingual Democracy: Switzerland and Beyond (London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, 2021), as well as scholarly articles in journals such as Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Political Behavior, European Political Science Review, International Political Science Review, and Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft.

He leads the "Demoscan" project, which aims to strengthen public opinion formation in the run-up to referendums in the Swiss context via lottery and deliberative approaches (see www.demoscan.ch).

Dr. Matt Ryan

Dr Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton, UK. Matt's research on democratic innovations tries to figure out how people can have control over the decisions that affect their lives. Since January 2020 he has been a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the Rebooting Democracy project which aims to understand which innovations in public participation restore and sustain democracy. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures, bringing together academics who have an interest in how people make collective decisions. Since January 2021 he has been Policy Director at the Web Science Institute, a world-leading institute dedicated to bringing socio-technical expertise to explore the development of the Web. Matt has expertise in fields related to data science and artificial intelligence and in October 2021 became a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute. His book Why Citizen Participation Succeeds or Fails published in 2021 with Bristol University Press, is an examination of citizen control of decisions and their implementation. He has published research in several peer-reviewed outlets on what methods of analysis and forms of expertise best provide answers to wicked collective problems, and how we can redesign institutions to improve our experience and understanding of politics.