Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
(1) Zhang, Weiyu, Simon Tangi Perrault, ShunYi Yeo, Jiaxin Pei, Anna De Liddo, Francesco Veri,
Maurice Flechtner, and Horacio Saggion. "AI Agents and the Future of Deliberation: Designing
Human–AI Collaboration for Democratic Dialogue." In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts
of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-6. 2026.
(2) Veri, Francesco & Stojanović, Nenand (2026). Institutional configurations and deliberative
innovation: A comparative analysis of minipublic adoption across advanced democracies. European
Political Science, 1-13.
(3) Veri, Francesco, & Stojanović, Nenad. (2026). Does Federalism Facilitate Permanent
Minipublics?. Politics and Governance, 14.
(4) Umbelino Kreia, Gustavo & Veri, Francesco (2025). "An Emergent Understanding of Human and
AI Collaboration in Deliberation." Conference Proceedings on Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
(5) Veri, Francesco (2025). "Mapping discourses through Hierarchical Clustering on Principal
Components". Methodological Innovations
(6) Veri, Francesco & Niemeyer, Simon (2025). "Deliberative Reason and the Effect of Minipublic
Configuration". European Political Science Review.
(7) Veri, Francesco, & Maier, Franziska (2025). "Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization". Political Psychology.
(8) Veri, Francesco (2024). "Fostering Reasoning in the Politically Disengaged: The Role of
Deliberative Minipublics" Political Studies Review. OlineFirst.
(9) Niemeyer, Simon, Veri, Francesco, Dryzek, John and André Bächtiger (2024). "How
Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason" American Political
Science Review. 118(1): 345-362.
(10) Veri, Francesco and Jensen Sass (2023). "The Domestic Democratic Peace: How
Democracy Constraints Political Violence." International Political Science
(11) Veri, Francesco (2023). "Two-sample Test for Ambivalent Subsetrelationship in fuzzy
set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Quality & Quantity. OnlineFirst.
(12) Veri, Francesco. (2023) "Mapping Democratic Innovations: a Bottom-up Empirical
Perspective". Representation. 59 (2): 171-188
(13) Veri, Francesco. (2023). "Transforming Family Resemblance Concepts into Fuzzy
sets". Sociological Methods & Research. Online First. 52(1): 358-388
(14) Zeka, Bomikaze and Francesco Veri (2022). The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for
Retirement Funding Adequacy". Economics & Sociology. 15(1): 109-124.
(15) Veri, Francesco (2022). "Exploring Methodological Challenges in Deliberative Democracy". Comparative Sociology. 21(2): 200-247.
(16) Veri, Francesco and Hannah Barrowman. (2021). "The Added Value of Configurational Meta-
Analyses". Swiss Political Science Review. Online First. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12485
(17) Veri, Francesco. 2020. "Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Conditions in fsQCA: Problems and
Solutions." Sociological Methods & Research. 49(2): 312-355.
(18) Veri, Francesco. 2019. "Explaining foreigners’ political rights in the context of direct
democracy: A fuzzy-set QCA of Swiss cantonal popular votes". Politics and Governance,
7(2), 411–427.
(19) Veri, Francesco. 2019 "Aggregation Bias and Ambivalent Cases: a new Parameter of
Consistency in fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)". Comparative
Sociology. 18(2): 229-255.
(20) Veri, Francesco. 2018. “Coverage in fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA): a
new fuzzy proposition for describing empirical relevance”. Comparative Sociology. 17(2):
135-158.
(21) Veri, Francesco. 2016. "Minimalist Citizenship and National Identity in the Australian
Republican Movement." Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 16(1): 3-19.
R Packages
(1) Umbelino Gustavo, & Veri, Francesco. “DRI, a package for Deliberative Reason Index”. R
Package.
Book Chapters
(1) Veri, Francesco. (forthcoming). “Intelligence artificielle et délibération démocratique
Potentiels, limites et zones de risque.” In : A. Chassy et P. Bance (eds.). Presses universitaires
de Rouen et du Havre (PURH): Rouen.
(2) Veri, Francesco and Gustavo, Umbelino (forthcoming). “Benchmarking AI's Deliberative
Reasoning: Evaluating LLMs Against Human Collective Wisdom.” E. Pournaras, S. Majumdar,
C.I. Hausladen, D. Helbing Democracy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Edward Elgard:
Cheltenham.
(3) Stojanovic Nenad, and Francesco, Veri. (forthcoming). “Connecting Minipublic with Direct
Democracy: Switzerland and Beyond” In: Cordier L. and Sintomer Y. (eds.). Handbook of
Participative Democracy. Edward Elgard: Cheltenham.
(4) Heimann Andri, Kübler Daniel, Stojanovic Nenad and Veri, Francesco. (forthcoming)
“Deliberation before voting: Citizen Initiative Reviews (CIR) in Switzerland”. In: Hendricks
rank and Wagenaar Charlotte (eds.). Connecting Voting and Deliberation in Democratic
Innovation. Edward Eldgar: Cheltenham.
(5) Veri, Francesco. (2025). “Democratic Innovations for Peace: Mapping New Forms of
Engagement for Peace”. In: S. Castro, M. Lupatini and A. Plata (eds.) Educare alla democrazia e alla
pace, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana - SUPSI: Locarno.
(5) Niemeyer, Simon and Francesco, Veri. (2022) “The Deliberative Reasoning Index: A
theory-Driven Method.” In: Asenbaum Hans, Curato, Nicole., Ercan Selen., Mendonca R.
(eds). Assessing deliberation: methodological approaches in deliberative
democracy. Oxford University Press:Oxford.
(6) Veri, Francesco (2021). “Gli effetti del COVID 19 sui processi democratici deliberativi” In:
Ewert Chris and Heyne Lea (eds). One year of Covid. Norderstedt: BoD
PhD Thesis
(1) Veri, Francesco. “Explaining Citizenship Light in the Context of Direct Democracy.”
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