📝 Grateful to the @policy-politics.bsky.social team for featuring our recent work and for such a clear summary of its policy implications. Thanks as well to my co-authors—Caterina Santoro, @mohsanali.bsky.social, and Yannis Charalabidis. Check out the blog post here: shorturl.at/KD9AJ
🙏🏻Grateful to my coauthors, Caterina Santoro, @mohsanali.bsky.social & Yannis Charalabidis, to the ODECO and IDEAL projects for support through the EU’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes; and to
@giulianoformisano.bsky.social for early discussions.
▶️ Find the open-access paper here: shorturl.at/MD5TZ
This image shows the Iterative Human-AI Natural Language Processing methodology as a four-step workflow with seventeen sub-steps. The process moves from document collection, translation, parsing, and preprocessing to computational extraction and filtering, then to classification, human validation, qualitative coding, and visualization. The figure shows that motive identification relied on repeated interaction between automated methods and structured human review.
This image shows how motive types vary across countries and world regions. The country-level panel indicates substantial cross-national variation, while the regional panel highlights broader commonalities. Attraction-based motives, especially governance- and value-driven forms, appear widely across regions. Coercion linked to funding and competition linked to economic concerns also appear in many regions. Some motives are more regionally concentrated, showing that open government policies combine globally shared and region-specific motivational patterns.
🎉 New @policy-politics.bsky.social!
Why do governments pursue #OpenGovernment amid #DemocraticBacksliding?
💡Our human-AI iterative analysis of @opengovpartnership.org member policies finds layered motivations spanning values, strategy, external pressure, and policy emulation.
Seulki Lee-Geiller consults her notes as she speaks in a classroom.
How is AI shaping democracy? ISPS's @leegeiller.bsky.social organized a conference to find out. bit.ly/4o2oJBC Featuring @dschiff.bsky.social @paoloagnolin.bsky.social @jason-jones.bsky.social
🎉 Just out in Policy and Internet!
Is AI in policymaking a fix or a threat?
This study, supported by @ispsyale.bsky.social, suggests AI's democratic legitimacy depends on how it is explained and integrated with public voice.
🔗Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Thank you for the excellent encapsulation of the AI & Democracy conference!
Honored to organize the mini-conference on AI & Democratic Governance at @ispsyale.bsky.social! This year, we explored the risks AI poses to democracy, approaches to governing it responsibly, and its potential to enhance democratic participation and representation.
Delighted to see this work published in JeDEM. It highlights governmental commitments to #opengovernment in the context of democratic evolution (2020-2022), analyzing the core principles within its policy documents across 75 @opengovpart.bsky.social countries using NLP.
I am getting so many flashbacks these days from things I have only read about in history texts.
📣Excited to participate in the timely and relevant 2025 Marc Holzer Public Performance Symposium at ASPA in DC! The schedule is finalized—join our discussions on balanced approaches to performance management in the age of emerging technologies. www.aspanet.org/Conference20...
Key findings:
📍AI-integrated policymaking shows higher public policy evaluations, especially when paired with civic deliberation.
📍Reactions vary by demography and levels of understanding.
📍AI transforms public policy evaluations, heightening sensitivity among post-workforce groups.
New preprint 📄The experimental data analysis uncovers insights into how #AI-integrated policymaking reshapes public #policy evaluations, revealing nuanced dynamics. I welcome any comments and feedback to help refine this work further!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Klaudia Wegschaider speaks in front of a projection screen in a classroom.
We are excited to announce the recipients of our latest research and conference grants: bit.ly/3ZvyXAj
@winnievandijk.bsky.social @johneric.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @leegeiller.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social @nottone.bsky.social
It was an honor to host the conference on AI in Government at @ispsyale.bsky.social with stimulating conversations and reflections by the talented:
Savannah Thais, Kirk Bansak, Alan Gerber, Eddie Yang, Virginia Eubanks @geomblog.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social
Seulki Lee-Geiller
New paper from Seulki Lee-Geiller, the newest addition to our Democratic Innovations team. "Technology Married to Good Governance and Diversity: Explaining E-Participation Preparedness in Government" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Seulki Lee-Geiller, with text: PSA 2023-2024 academic Prizes, Walter Bagehot Prize; Dr. Seulki Lee-Geiller for the dissertation "Unpacking E-Participation Meta-Theory, Cross-country Analysis, and Behavioural Explanations; "The Judges felt this study will be of particular use to future researchers in determining the concepts capable of being presented quantitatively."
Congratulations, Seulki Lee-Geiller, for winning the Walter Bagehot Prize from @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social.