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Franziska Maier serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research, where she has been academic staff since May 2021 while holding a doctoral scholarship from the German Business Foundation since 2019.
Her academic credentials include:
- PhD in Political Science from the University of Stuttgart (2022), dissertation: 'What makes a citizen?'
- Master of Public Policy from Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (2016)
Maier's research centers on deliberative democracy and citizenship theory, with focused investigations into demos boundaries, migration discourse impacts, and subjective citizenship experiences. Her methodological approach combines virtual deliberative experiments, discourse analysis, and transnational case studies to address democratic crisis responses and boundary problems in political communities.
Recent publications reveal evolving emphases on virtual deliberation platforms, radical right mobilization tactics, and neoliberal constraints on academic democracy practices. Her 2024 work demonstrates increasing attention to experimental methodologies for testing democratic boundaries while maintaining critical engagement with citizenship conceptualizations.
Funded by the German Business Foundation's doctoral scholarship, Maier teaches 'Transformations of Citizenship in Theory and Practice' and 'Democracy in Crisis?' courses. Her collaborative network includes the Global Citizens' Assembly Network and researchers across European institutions.
She actively contributes to transnational democracy initiatives through technical papers on agenda-setting mechanisms in global citizens' assemblies and co-authored analyses of deliberative practice constraints within academic institutions.
