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Landwehr, Claudia (2025): How can we agree on democratic procedures? Dimensions of conflict in the political process space Journal of International Political Theory, DOI: i.org/10.1177/17550882251351929.

Steiner, Nils, Claudia Landwehr and Philipp Harms (2025): False Consensus Beliefs and Populist Attitudes, Political Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/pops.70026.

Landwehr, Claudia, Christopher Ojeda and Paul Weingärtner (2025): A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions. Electoral Studies.

Landwehr, Claudia; Christopher Ojeda and Lea Stallbaum (2025): Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment. Political Studies, online first. DOI: 10.1177/00323217241309965.

Landwehr, Claudia and Armin Schäfer (2025): Changes in Europeans’ Evaluations of Democracy. In: Kriesi, Hanspeter and Férrin, Monica (eds.): How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited. Oxford University Press.

Hillen, Sven, Nils D. Steiner and Claudia Landwehr (2024): Perceptions of policy responsiveness: the effects of egocentric and sociotropic congruence. West European Politics. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2333215

2022

Landwehr, Claudia / Saalfeld, Thomas / Schäfer, Armin (eds.): Contested Representation. Challenges Shortcomings, and Reforms . Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press (paperback 2023).

• Review by Michael Koß in Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2023, 64 (4).
• Review by Alexander Kühne in Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 4/2023.

2018

Philipp Harms, Claudia Landwehr, Mario Scharfbillig and Daniel Schunk (eds.): Ungleichheit: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Ursachen und Implikationen. Mercator Science Policy Paper 02.

2014

Claudia Landwehr and Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (eds.): Deliberative democracy under discussion. Challenges, tests, criticism. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

2012

Regina Kreide, Claudia Landwehr, Katrin Toens (eds.): Demokratie und Gerechtigkeit in Verteilungskonflikten, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(Schriftenreihe der Sektion Politische Theorien und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, vol. 21).

2009

Political Conflict and Political Preferences. Communicative Interaction between Facts, Norms and Interests. ECPR Monograph Series, Colchester: ECPR Press.

2025

How can we agree on democratic procedures? Dimensions of conflict in the political process space Journal of International Political Theory, DOI: i.org/10.1177/17550882251351929.

False Consensus Beliefs and Populist Attitudes (with Nils Steiner and Philipp Harms), Political Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/pops.70026.

A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions. (with Christopher Ojeda and Paul Weingärtner). Electoral Studies, online first.

Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment. (with Christopher Ojeda and Lea Stallbaum) Political Studies, online first. DOI: 10.1177/00323217241309965.

Changes in Europeans’ Evaluations of Democracy (with Armin Schäfer), in: Kriesi, Hanspeter and Férrin, Monica (eds.): How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited. Oxford University Press.

2024

Perceptions of policy responsiveness: the effects of egocentric and sociotropic congruence. (with Sven Hillen and Nils Steiner) West European Politics. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2333215

Institutional design beyond democratic innovations (comment on Steffen Ganghof: Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27 (2), 259-265 https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159666.

2023

The promise of representative democracy: deliberative responsiveness (with Armin Schäfer), Res Publica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-023-09640-0.

German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey. (with Leonard Häfner and Lea Stallbaum), German Politics, DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2023.2279183.

Depression and the gender gap in political interest (with Christopher Ojeda and Luca Bernardi), Electoral Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102598.

Hearing Silent Voices? Representing Identified and Statistical Policy Victims in: MacKenzie, Michael, Maija Setälä and Simo Kyllönen (eds.): Democracy and the Future. Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 113-133.

Fairness/Verfahrensgerechtigkeit/Verfahrenskonsens, in: Frühbauer, J.J, M. Reder, M. Roseneck und T.M. Schmidt (eds.): Rawls-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 229-233.

Regression und Erneuerung der Demokratie: Eine psychoanalytische Perspektive, in: Niesen, Peter: Zur Diagnose demokratischer Regression. Leviathan Sonderband 40, p. 149-169.

2022

Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance (with Julian Frinken), Acta Politica, DOI: doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00267-2.

Learning the Brexit Lesson? Shifting Support for Direct Democracy in Germany in the Aftermath of the Brexit Referendum (with Nils Steiner), British Journal of Political Science, DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000382.

Democratic representation, contestation and institutional reform, in: Landwehr, Claudia, Thomas Saalfeld and Armin Schäfer, Contested Representation. Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 15-33.

Deliberative Demokratietheorie und empirische Demokratieforschung, in: Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver und Dirk Jörke: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte. Rainer Schmalz-Bruns zum Gedenken, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 69-86.

Der Wert demokratischer Partizipation, in: Repräsentation – Identität – Beteiligung. Zum Zustand und Wandel der Demokratie. APuZ Edition, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 12-22.

2021

Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives, (with Philipp Harms, Maximilian Lutz and Markus Tepe), Research & Politics, DOI: 10.1177/20531680211014121.

Democracy and Depression: A Cross-National Study of Depressive Symptoms and Nonparticipation (with Christopher Ojeda), American Political Science Review, 115 (1), 323-330.

Repräsentation: Zwischen technokratischer und populistischer Versuchung (with Armin Schäfer), in: Florack, Martin, Karl-Rudolf Korte und Julia Schwanholz: Coronakratie. Demokratisches Regieren in Ausnahmezeiten. Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 135-148.

2020

Backlash against the procedural consensus, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22 (4), 598-608.

Defending democracy against technocracy and populism: Deliberative democracy’s strengths and challenges (with Daniel Gaus and Rainer Schmalz-Bruns), Constellations, 27 (3) 335-247.

Replik: Selbstvergewisserung hilft nicht, Beitrag zur Debatte: Political Theory und Ideengeschichte im Wissenschaftssystem, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61 (4), 747 – 769.

Is money where the fun ends? Material interests and individuals’ preference for direct democracy (with Philipp Harms), European Journal of Political Economy, 61 (1).

Thinking about Brexit with Cristina Lafont, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 27 (4), 759-161.

Populismus: Angebots- und Nachfrageseite, in: Kuhli, Milan and Bung, Jochen: Volk als Konzept in Politik und Recht, Berlin: DeGruyter, 99-116.

Deliberative Theory, in: Riddervold, Marianne, Jarle Trondal and Akasemi Newsome: Handbook on EU Crisis, Palgrave MacMillan, 213-228.

2019

Preferences for Referenda: Intrinsic or Instrumental? Evidence from a Survey Experiment (with Philipp Harms), Political Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0032321719879619.

Instrumental or procedural democrats? The evolution of procedural preferences after democratization (with Arndt Leininger), Political Research Exchange (PRX), 1(1), DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2019.1654838

Reconciling credibility and accountability: how expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes (with Matthew A. Wood), European Politics and Society, 20:1, 66-82.

Legitimate expertocracy? On the position of non-majoritarian expert committees in a deliberative-democratic system in: Marker, Karl, Annette Schmitt and Jürgen Sirsch: Demokratie und Entscheidung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 147-198.

Deliberative Beteiligungsverfahren, in: Faas, Thorsten et al: Einstellungs- und Verhaltensforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 413-434.

2018

Technocracy and populism: distortions of democracy? Democratic theory and democratic practice in: Thaa, Winfried and Christian Volk (eds.): Formwandel der Demokratie, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 155-175.

Populist concepts of democracy and the AfD vote. Evidence from a panel study (with Nils Steiner), Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 59(3), 463-491.

2017

Where democrats disagree. Citizens’ normative conceptions of democracy (with Nils Steiner), Political Studies, 65(4): 786-804.

Depoliticization, Repoliticization, and Deliberative Systems, in: Fawcett, Paul et al: Anti-Politics, Depoliticization and Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 49-67.

Is the procedural consensus crumbling? Attitudes towards political decisions and democratic decision-making procedures in times of populism (with Thorsten Faas and Philipp Harms), Leviathan, 45 (1), 35-54.

2016

Strategic Institutional Design. Two case studies of Non-Majoritarian Agencies in Health Care Priority Setting (with Katharina Böhm), Government and Opposition, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 632-60.

2015

Value congruence in health care priority-setting: social values, institutions and decisions in three countries (with Dorothea Klinnert), Health Economics, Policy and Law, 10 (02), 113-132.

Democratic meta-deliberation: towards reflective institutional design, Political Studies, 63 (S1), 38-54.

2014

The diagnosis made without the patient. Notes on post-democracy and citizen participation Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 55 (1), 18-32.

The Europeanization of Health Care Coverage Decisions: EU-Regulation, Policy Learning and Cooperation in Decision-Making (with Katharina Böhm), Journal of European Integration, 36 (1), 17-35

What explains generosity in the public financing of high-tech drugs? An empirical investigation of 25 OECD countries and 11 controversial drugs (with Katharina Böhm and Nils Steiner), Journal Of European Social Policy, 24 (1), 39-55

Facilitating Deliberation: The Role of Impartial Intermediaries in Deliberative Mini-Publics, in: Grönlund, Kimmo, André Bächtiger & Maija Setälä: Deliberative Mini-Publics. Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process, Colchester: ECPR Press, 77-92.

Deliberation, Aggregation und epistemischer Fortschritt, in: Bächtiger, André et al.: Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 41-63.

2013

Five types of OECD healthcare systems: Empirical results of a deductive classification (with Katharina Böhm, Achim Schmid, Ralf Götze, Heinz Rothgang), Health Policy, 113 (3), 258-269.

Procedural justice and democratic institutional design in health-care priority-setting, Contemporary Political Theory, 12 (4), 296-317.

2012

Demokratisches Institutionendesign in der Rationierung und Priorisierung von Gesundheitsgütern. Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 407-411.

Democratic legitimation through rational communication. Theories of deliberative democracy . In: Lembcke, Oliver W., Claudia Ritzi und Gary S. Schaal (Hrsg.): Zeitgenössische Demokratietheorie. Band 1: Normative Demokratietheorien. Wiesbaden: VS, 355-385.

2011

Substantielle und prozedurale Gerechtigkeit in der Verteilung von Gesundheitsgütern, Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 52 (1), 29-50.

Delegation and Institutional Design in Health Care Rationing (with Katharina Böhm), Governance. 24 (4), 665-688.

Prioritätensetzung und explizite Rationierung in der Gesundheitspolitik: Entscheidungsverfahren und Leistungskataloge im internationalen Vergleich (with Katharina Böhm), in: Schüttemeyer, Suzanne: Politik im Klimawandel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 341-354.

Konflikt, Kompromiss und Verständigung: Die Entscheidung über den Import embryonaler Stammzellen, in: Kauffmann, Clemens: Biopolitik im liberalen Staat, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 135-162.

2010

Discourse & Coordination: Modes of Interaction and their Roles in Political Decision-making, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 18 (1), 101-122.

Instutional Determinants of Deliberative Interaction (with Katharina Holzinger), European Political Science Review, 2 (3), 373-400.

Deliberation, Voting, and Truth, hamburg review of social sciences, 4 (3), 152-170.

2009

Democratic and Technocratic Policy Deliberation, Critical Policy Studies, 3 (3-4), 434-439.

Deciding How to Decide. The Case of Health Care Rationing , Public Administration, 87 (3), 586-603.

The uncertain potential of policy-learning. A comparative assessment of three varieties (with K. Toens), Policy Studies, 30 (3), 347-363.

Parlamentsplenum und Bürgerkonferenz – was leisten sie auf dem Weg zur politischen Entscheidung?, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 40 (4), 910-935.

Legitimacy Problems in the Allocation of Health Care (with Ann-Charlotte Nedlund), in: Blühdorn, Ingolfur (ed.): In Search of Legitimacy, Opladen: Budrich Publishers, 247-267.

2008

How do we know what we want? Preference formation as a process of rational decision-making , in: Behnke, Joachim, Thomas Bräuninger and Susumo Shikano: Jahrbuch Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 223-243.

2007

Imitation, Bayesian Updating and Deliberation. Strategies and processes of policy learning in comparison (with K. Toens), in: Janning, Frank and Katrin Toens: Die Zukunft der Policy-Analyse, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 71-87.

Verhandlung und Deliberation in der Rationierung von Gesundheitsgütern, in: Thaa, Winfried (ed.): Inklusion durch Repräsentation, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 167-183.

2006

Kann über die Verteilung von Gesundheitsgütern demokratisch entschieden werden?, in: Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, 19 (4), 84-97.

Rationalität und Deliberation. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Verbindung von Rational Choice – und Diskurstheorie, in: hamburg review of social sciences (hrss), 1 (1), 35-63.

2005

The exhausted citizen. Depression and democracy , in: Vorgänge 170, 44 (2), June 2005, pp. 130-136.

Rational Choice, Deliberative Democracy, and Preference Transformation, in: Studies in Social and Political ThoughtIssue 11 (May 2005), pp. 40-68.

2022

Disch, Lisa Jane: Making Constituencies. Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy , Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2021, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

2020

Urbinati, Nadia: We the People. How Populism Transforms Democracy , Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press 2019, in: Constellations.

Lafont, Cristina: Democracy without Shortcuts. A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy , Oxford, OUP 2019, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift .

2019

Is the EU breaking the promise of democracy? Comment on Dirk Jörke: The greatness of democracy (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019), Theorieblog.

2014

Mair, Peter: Ruling the Void. The Hollowing-Out of Western Democracy, 160 p., Verso, London 2013, in: Neue Politische Literatur, 1/2015.

Fischer, Frank and Herbert Gottweis (eds.). The Argumentative Turn Revisited. Public Policy as Communicative Practice, in: PVS 02/2014.

2012

Heinz Rothgang et al, The State and Healthcare, in: PVS, 57 (03).

2010

Article “Gesundheitspolitik”, in: Nohlen, Dieter / Grotz, Florian (eds.): Kleines Lexikon der Politik, 3rd edition, Munich: C.H. Beck

2009

Article “Health Policy”, in: Nohlen, Dieter / Schultze, Rainer-Olaf: Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft, 4th edition, Munich: C.H. Beck.

2007

Sammelrezension: Neuerscheinungen zur Theorie deliberativer Demokratie (with Kolja Raube), PVS 52 (3), 585-590.

2005

Geoffrey Brennan / Philip Pettit, The Economy of Esteem, PVS 50 (1), 344/5.

2004

Rolf Rosenbrook / Thomas Gerlinger, Gesundheitspolitik. Eine systematische Einführung, in: Neue Politische Literatur, 49 (2), S. 348/9.

Robert E. Goodin, Reflective Democracy, in: Neue Politische Literatur, 49 (1), S. 129/30.

2024

Who wants descriptive representation, and why? (with Armin Schäfer), IPP Discussion Paper 2407.

2023

Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy. Topline results from rounds 6 and 10 of the European Social Survey (with Monica Ferrín and Enrique Hernández), ESS Topline Results Series, Issue 13.

2021

Falsche Balance. Nicht nur Wissenschaftsleugner schaden der Demokratie, auch Politikleugner (mit Armin Schäfer), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30.08.2021, S. 6.

2020

Too sad to vote? Mental Health’s Impact on Political Participation during the Covid-19 Crisis (with Christopher Ojeda and Oliver Tüscher), SSRC Items.

Populist, Authoritarian and Technocratic Responses to Covid-19 (with Armin Schäfer), SSRC Items.

Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental vs. intrinsic motives (with Philipp Harms, Maximilian Lutz and Markus Tepe), IPP Discussion Paper 2018.

Procedural Preferences, Self-Interest, and Communication. Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment (with Philipp Harms, Maximilian Lutz and Markus Tepe), IPP Discussion Paper 2011.

Resilience, self-efficacy and political participation (with Andrea Chmitortz, Arndt Leininger, Thorsten Schroeter and Oliver Tüscher), IPP Discussion Paper 2010.

2019

Be careful what you wish for: Brexit and the call for another referendum, (with Philipp Harms), Democratic Audit Blog / LSE, 13.11.2019.

2018

Money is where the fun ends: material interests and individuals’ preference for direct democracy (with Philipp Harms), IPP Disussion Paper No. 1815.

Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. Towards New Models of Democratic Governance (with André Bächtiger), SSRC Items.

2017

Disturbances take precedence. Why we need to regain the procedural consensus . SSRC Items.

Preferences for direct democracy: intrinsic or instrumental? (with Philipp Harms), IPP Discussion Paper No. 1719.

Populistische Einstellungen zu demokratischen Entscheidungsverfahren und die Wahl der AfD (with Nils Steiner), Aus der Wissenschaft für die Politik (Blog).

Who wants democratic innovations, and why? (with Thorsten Faas), IPP Discussion Paper No. 1705.

2014

How Can We Make Decisions Over Health Care More Democratic?, The Crick Centre Blog.

Deliberative Democracy and Non-Majoritarian Decision-Making, ARENA Working Paper 3/2014.

2012

Böhm, K., A. Schmid, R. Götze, C. Landwehr, and H. Rothgang: Classifying OECD Healthcare Systems: a Deductive Approach. Bremen: TranState Working Papers.

2010

Prioritätensetzung und explizite Rationierung in der Gesundheitspolitik: Entscheidungsverfahren und Leistungskataloge im internationalen Vergleich, FoJuS-Diskussionspapier 1/2010.

2006

The Challenge of Health Care Rationing. Choosing Modes of Governance, CGG Preprint, No. 4, Nov. 2006.