Email: simon.niemeyer@anu.edu.au
Phone: x53605

Areas of expertise

• Political Theory And Political Philosophy
• Environment And Resource Economics
• Political Science
• Other Studies In Human Society
• Environmental Politics
• Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified
• Environmental Management
• Environment Policy

Research interests

Deliberative democracy working on linking empirical analysis of deliberative processes to the development of theory.

Publications

• Hobson, K & Niemeyer, S 2011, 'Public responses to climate change: The role of deliberation in building capacity for adaptive action', Global Environmental Change: Part A - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 957-971.
• Dryzek, J, Ayirtman Ercan, M, Niemeyer, S et al 2010, 'Deliberative Democracy', in Mark Bevir (ed.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications, Europe, pp. 352-56.
• Niemeyer, S 2011, 'The emancipatory effect of deliberation: Empirical lessons from mini-publics', Politics & Society, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 103-140.
• Ashworth, P, Littleboy, A, Graham, A et al 2011, 'Turning the Heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future', in Patricia Devine-Wright (ed.), Renewable Energy and the Public: from NIMBY to participation, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London UK.
• Dryzek, J with Niemeyer, S 2010, Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance, Oxford University Press, US.
• Niemeyer, S & Hobson, K 2010, 'Climate Change and the Public Sphere: Mapping Individual responses to Australia climate change scenarios and the limits of social adaptation.', European Conference on Social dimensions of environmental change and governance, Freie Universitat, http://www.berlinconference.org/2010/contact/, p. 40.
• Niemeyer, S & Hobson, K 2010, 'The role of deliberation in managing public responses to climate change', NCCARF/SEID Climate Change Adaptation and Governance Workshop 2010, National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility, web.
• Bachtiger, A, Niemeyer, S, Neblo, M et al 2010, 'Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing theories, Their Blind Sport and Complementarities', Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 32-63.
• Niemeyer, S 2010, 'The Q-Block Method and an Alternative: Benchmarking the Australian Discourse of Democracy', Operant Subjectivity: The International journal of Q Methodology, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 59-84.
• Secko, D, Preto, N, Niemeyer, S et al 2009, 'Informed consent in biobank research: A deliberative approach to the debate', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 68, pp. 781-789.
• Niemeyer, S 2009, The Emancipatory Effect of Deliberation: Empirical Lessons from Mini-Publics, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance.
• Dryzek, J & Niemeyer, S 2008, 'Discursive Representation', American Political Science Review, vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 481-93.
• Bachtiger, A, Steenbergen, M & Niemeyer, S 2007, 'Deliberative Democracy: An Introduction', Swiss Political Science Review - Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Politikwissenschaft, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 485-496.
• Niemeyer, S & Dryzek, J 2007, 'The Ends of Deliberation: Metaconsensus and Intersubjective Rationality as Ideal Outcomes', Swiss Political Science Review - Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Politikwissenschaft, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 497-526.
• Dryzek, J & Niemeyer, S 2006, 'Reconciling Pluralism and Consensus as Political Ideals', American Journal of Political Science, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 634-649.
• Niemeyer, S, Hobson, K & Petts, J 2005, 'Rapid Climate Change and Society: Assessing Responses and Thresholds', Risk Analysis, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1443-1456.
• Niemeyer, S 2005, 'Preference transformation through Deliberation', in Michael Getzner, Clive Spash and Sigrid Stagl (ed.), Alternatives for environmental valuation, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 263-289.
• Niemeyer, S 2004, 'Deliberation in the wilderness: Displacing symbolic politics', Environmental Politics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 347-372.
• Goodin, R & Niemeyer, S 2003, 'When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public discussion in Deliberative Democracy', Political Studies, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 627-49.
• Niemeyer, S & Spash, C 2001, 'Environmental Valuation Analysis, public deliberation, and their pragmatic syntheses: a critical appraisal', Environment and Planning C, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 567-85.
• Kellow, A & Niemeyer, S 1999, 'The development of environmental administration in Queensland and Western Australia: Why are they different?', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, pp. 205-222.

Projects and Grants

• Social Adaptation to Climate Change in the Australian Public Sphere: A comparison of individual and group deliberative responses to scenarios of future climate change (Primary Investigator)
• Creating and Analysing a Citizens' Parliament: Exploring the Public's Deliberative Capacity (Secondary Investigator)
• The Micropolitics of Deliberation (Secondary Investigator)