Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2026
Recommended citation: F. Veri & G. Kreia Umbelino (2026). Plausible nonsense and deliberative reasoning: Benchmarking LLMs against human judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(37), e2600126123.
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Published in European Political Science, 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Nenad Stojanovic (2026). Institutional configurations and deliberative innovation: A comparative analysis of minipublic adoption across advanced democracies. European Political Science.
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Published in Politics and Governance, 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Nenad Stojanovic (2026). Does federalism facilitate permanent minipublics? Politics and Governance. OnlineFirst.
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Published in Political Psychology, 2025
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Franziska Maier (2025). Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping potential for political mobilization in Facebook. Political Psychology. OnlineFirst.
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Published in Methodological Innovations, 2025
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2025). Mapping discourses through Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components. Methodological Innovations.
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Published in Political Studies Review, 2025
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2025). Fostering Reasoning in the Politically Disengaged: The Role of Deliberative Minipublics. Political Studies Review, 23(1), 254-275.
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Published in European Political Science Review, 2025
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Simon Niemeyer (2025). Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations. European Political Science Review. OnlineFirst.
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Published in Quality & Quantity, 2024
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2024). Two Sample Test for Ambivalent Subset Relationships in fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Quality & Quantity, 58(2), 1235-1253.
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Published in American Political Science Review, 2024
Recommended citation: Niemeyer, Simon, Francesco Veri, John Dryzek and André Bächtiger (2024). How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason. American Political Science Review, 118(1), 345-362.
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Published in Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2023). Transforming family resemblance concepts into fuzzy sets. Sociological Methods & Research, 52(1), 356-388.
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Published in International Political Science Review, 2023
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Sass Jensen (2023). The Domestic Democratic Peace: How Democracy Constrains Political Violence. International Political Science Review, 44(5), 676-693.
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Published in Representation, 2023
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2023). Mapping Democratic Innovations: A Bottom-up Empirical Perspective. Representation, 59(2), 356-388.
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Published in Economics and Sociology, 2022
Recommended citation: Zeka, Bomikaze and Francesco Veri (2022). The necessary and sufficient conditions for retirement funding adequacy: A fuzzy set analysis of South Africa. Economics and Sociology, 15(1), 109-124.
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Published in Swiss Political Science Review, 2022
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Hannah Barrowman (2022). The added value of configurational meta-analyses. Swiss Political Science Review, 28(1).
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Published in Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2022). Fuzzy multiple attribute conditions in fsQCA: problems and solutions. Sociological Methods & Research, 49(2), 312-355.
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Published in Comparative Sociology, 2022
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2022). Exploring Methodological Challenges in Deliberative Democracy: a Configurational Meta-Analysis? Comparative Sociology, 21(2), 200-247.
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Published in Politics and Governance, 2019
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2019). Explaining the extension of political rights to foreigners in the context of direct democracy: a fuzzy set QCA of Swiss cantonal referendums. Politics and Governance, 17(2), 410-426.
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Published in Comparative Sociology, 2019
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2019). Aggregation bias and ambivalent cases: a new parameter of consistency in fsQCA. Comparative Sociology, 18(2), 229-255.
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Published in Comparative Sociology, 2018
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2018). Coverage in fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA): a new fuzzy proposition for describing empirical relevance. Comparative Sociology, 17(2), 133-158.
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Published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2016
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2016). Minimalist citizenship and national identity in the Australian republican movement. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 16(1), 3-19.
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Published in EGOV IFIP Conference Proceedings, 2026
Recommended citation: von Ostheim, Yannick, Maurice Flechtner and Francesco Veri (forthcoming). Gamifying Deliberation: Towards a Process-Sensitive Framework. EGOV IFIP Conference Proceedings.
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Published in CHI EA'26, 2026
Recommended citation: Zhang, Weiyu, Shunyi Yeo, Simon Perrault, Jiaxin Pei, Anna De Liddo, Francesco Veri, Maurice Flechtner, and Horacio Saggion (2026). AI Agents and the Future of Deliberation: Designing Human-AI Collaboration for Democratic Dialogue. CHI EA'26.
Published in Proceedings of the ACM 2025 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2025
Recommended citation: Umbelino, Gustavo and Francesco Veri (2025). An Emergent Understanding of Human-AI Collaboration in Deliberation: A Pilot Study into Large Language Models’ Deliberative Reasoning. Proceedings of the ACM 2025 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
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Published in Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH), 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (forthcoming). Intelligence artificielle et délibération démocratique: Potentiels, limites et zones de risque. In A. Chassy et P. Bance (eds.), Conseils ou conventions de citoyens : outils clés d'un nouveau paradigme d'action collective ? Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
Published in Edward Elgar, 2026
Recommended citation: Heimann, Andri, Daniel Kübler, Victor Sanchez-Mazas, Nenad Stojanovic and Francesco Veri (forthcoming). Deliberation before voting: Citizen Initiative Reviews (CIR) in Switzerland. In Hendricks F. and Wagenaar C. (eds.), Connecting Voting and Deliberation in Democratic Innovation. Edward Elgar.
Published in Edward Elgar, 2026
Recommended citation: 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 Elgar.
Published in Edward Elgar, 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco and Gustavo Umbelino (forthcoming). Benchmarking AI's Deliberative Reasoning: Evaluating LLMs Against Human Collective Wisdom. In E. Pournaras, S. Majumdar, C.I. Hausladen, D. Helbing (eds.), Democracy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar.
Published in SUPSI, 2025
Recommended citation: 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. SUPSI: Locarno.
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Published in Oxford University Press, 2022
Recommended citation: Niemeyer, Simon and Francesco Veri (2022). The Deliberative Reason Index. In H. Asenbaum, N. Curato, S. Ercan and R. Mendonca (eds.), Assessing deliberation: methodological approaches in deliberative democracy. Oxford University Press, pp. 99-114.
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Published in BOD, 2021
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2021). Gli effetti del COVID 19 sui processi democratici deliberativi. In C. Ewert and L. Heyne, One year of Covid: DemocracyNet retrospective. BOD, pp. 87-91.
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Published in Doctoral thesis, University of Lucerne, 2019
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2019). Explaining citizenship light in the context of direct democracy. Doctoral thesis presented at the University of Lucerne.
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Published in arXiv, 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco (2026). Correcting Low-Signal Sensitivity in the Deliberative Reason Index. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16963.
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Published in SSRN Working Paper Series, 2026
Recommended citation: Veri, Francesco. A note on Set-Theoretic Configuration in Qualitative Comparative Analysis. SSRN Working Paper Series.
Published in R Package, 2026
Recommended citation: Umbelino, Gustavo and Francesco Veri. DRI, a package for Deliberative Reason Index. R Package.
Published in Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich, 2024
Recommended citation: Benli-Trichet, Marine, Marie Hürlimann, Andri Heimann, Robin Gut, Francesco Veri and Daniel Kübler (2024). Èvaluation du Conseil du Futur U24. Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich.
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Published in Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich, 2024
Recommended citation: Heimann, Andri, Robin Gut, Francesco Veri, Stefan Kalberer, Daniel Kübler and Nenad Stojanovic (2024). Demoscan Aargau. Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich.
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Published in Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich, 2023
Recommended citation: Heimann, Andri, Robin Gut, Francesco Veri, Daniel Kübler and Nenad Stojanovic (2023). Bürgerpanels für mehr Kilmaschutz Kanton Zürich. Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich.
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Published in University of Tasmania / University of Canberra, 2022
Recommended citation: Nicol, Dianne, Rebecca Paxton, Simon Niemeyer, Nicole Curato, John Dryzek, Christopher Rudge, Sonia Pemberton and Francesco Veri (2022). Genome Editing: Formulating an Australian Community Response. Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania; Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.
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