André Bächtiger has held the chair of political theory at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart since 2015. His research focuses on the challenges of mapping and measuring deliberation and political communication as well as understanding the preconditions and outcomes of high-quality deliberation in the contexts of both representative institutions and mini-publics. His research has been published by Cambridge University Press and in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, European Political Science Review, Political Studies, and Acta Politica. He is coeditor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (coedited with John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren) and Mapping and Measuring Deliberation (coauthored with John Parkinson; Oxford University Press, 2019).