Zur Person
Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Nitsche | Informatiker
Vorstandsmitglied Interaktive Demokratie e. V.
Thomas Mann Fellowship, Los Angeles, California
Arbeitsgebiete
Chancen und Risiken von Technologien für Demokratie, gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Inklusion und Konfliktmanagement. Philosophische, politische und technologische Aspekte von Deliberation und glaubwürdiger Entscheidungsfindung. Demokratische Selbstorganisation und Algorithmen für Gruppenentscheidungen.
Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
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Davide Grossi, Andreas Nitsche, Georgios Papasotiropoulos, Oskar Skibski, Piotr Skowron, and Tomasz Wąs (2026).
Power in Liquid Democracy: A Network Centrality Approach.
arXiv.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2608.13188.
[Publication page]
[Paper on arXiv]
[News]
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Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2025).
How Aggregation Functions in Mass-Deliberation Systems Can Incentivize Extremes: A Hypothesis on Strategy-Induced Opinion Polarization.
Prepublication.
[Prepublication]
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Davide Grossi and Andreas Nitsche (2025).
Delegations as Adaptive Representation Patterns: Rethinking Influence in Liquid Democracy.
arXiv.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.09789.
[Paper on arXiv]
[News]
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Davide Grossi, Ulrike Hahn, Michael Mäs, Andreas Nitsche, Jan Behrens, Niclas Boehmer, Markus Brill, Ulle Endriss, Umberto Grandi, Adrian Haret, Jobst Heitzig, Nicolien Janssens, Catholijn M. Jonker, Marijn A. Keijzer, Axel Kistner, Martin Lackner, Alexandra Lieben, Anna Mikhaylovskaya, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Carlo Proietti, Manon Revel, Élise Rouméas, Ehud Shapiro, Gogulapati Sreedurga, Björn Swierczek, Nimrod Talmon, Paolo Turrini, Zoi Terzopoulou, and Frederik Van De Putte (2024).
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy.
arXiv.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.16863.
[Paper on arXiv]
[News]
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Ulrike Hahn, Michael Mäs, and Andreas Nitsche (2023).
Innovations in Equity: Contextualizing U.S. and International Perspectives | Germany and Europe.
Transcript of contributions to National Coalition for Equity Impact Summit #2.
[Transcript]
[News]
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Andreas Nitsche (2022).
Crossing the Pond: Interactive Democracy and Social Cohesion in a Polarized Society.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 7.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2022).
Algorithms for Good.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 7.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2022).
Implementation Issues of Collective Decision Systems in Practice.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 7.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2022).
The Temporal Dimension in the Analysis of Liquid Democracy Delegation Graphs.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 7.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
[News]
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Martin Kaplan and Andreas Nitsche (2022).
Communicating Across Political Fault Lines – Reaching the 'Unreachable'.
Video conversation, Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
[Video]
[Reproduction in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Thomas Mann House (2022).
An Interview with 2022 Thomas Mann Fellow Andreas Nitsche.
Video interview.
[Interview]
[Reproduction in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2021).
Liquid Democracy—A Transatlantic Affair.
Film, Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
[Film]
[Reproduction in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2018).
Roadmap to a Decentralized LiquidFeedback.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 6.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2018).
The LiquidFeedback Blockchain.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 6.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Jan Behrens, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2018).
Decentralized Accreditation.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 6.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Guido Boella, Louise Francis, Elena Grassi, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, Alexey Noskov, Luigi Sanasi, Adriano Savoca, Claudio Schifanella, and Ioannis Tsampoulatidis (2018).
WeGovNow: A Map Based Platform to Engage the Local Civic Society.
Companion of The Web Conference 2018, pp. 1215–1219.
DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3191560.
[Paper at ACM Digital Library]
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Jan Behrens, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2017).
LiquidFeedback's Issue Limiter.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 5.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2017).
Warum Liquid Democracy keine Alternative zur parlamentarischen Republik ist.
vorwärts.
[Article in vorwärts]
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Jan Behrens, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2015).
A Finite Discourse Space for an Infinite Number Of Participants.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 4.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2014).
Liquid Democracy Provides No Alternative to the Republic.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 2.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Andreas Nitsche (2014).
Liquid Democracy - what all the noise is about.
The Liquid Democracy Journal, Issue 1.
[Article in The Liquid Democracy Journal]
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Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, and Björn Swierczek (2014).
The Principles of LiquidFeedback.
Interaktive Demokratie e. V., Berlin.
ISBN 978-3-00-044795-2.
[Book website]
Veranstaltungen
2026 | “Algorithms and Process Design” and "Network Plasticity in Liquid Democracy",
Deep Dives at Digital Democracy Camp at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
2025 | “Transitive Influence and Network Plasticity in Liquid Democracy”
Digital Democracy The Hague 2025 conference, The Hague, The Netherlands
2025 | “Is there hope for deliberative democracy yet?”
21st Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science, Lucca, Italy
2025 | “Artificial Intelligence – Opportunity or Threat to Democracies”
Panel at German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany
2025 | “Shaping Democracy – Strategies That Make an Impact”
Innovationsforum 2025 WHAT WORKS!, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
2025 | “Rethinking Influence in Liquid Democracy”
European Network for Digital Democracy, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne Paris, France
2023 | “Developing Green and Smart Infrastructure Solutions”
RAND Corporation, Consulates General of Finland and Germany in Los Angeles, California
2023 | “National Coalition for Equity Impact (NCEI) Summit #2:
Innovations In Equity — Contextualizing U.S. and International Perspectives”
in Kooperation mit dem Generalkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Los Angeles und dem RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy in Santa Monica, California
2022 | “Algorithmic Technology for Democracy”
am Lorentz Center in Leiden, Niederlande
2021 | “Liquid Democracy, Algorithms, and the Temporal Dimension”
Mechanism Design for Social Good, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University
2021 | “Deliberation across political fault lines, bottom-up approaches, and the role of the regions” auf der Berlin Conference 2021: Europe Bottom-Up!
2020 | International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN): “Implementing online deliberative methods of engagement”, Centre for Democratic Engagement und UK House of Commons
2019 | “Mathematics for Social Activism”, Universität Leeds, UK
2017 und 2019 | “Internet Deliberation and Voting”, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
2017 | “Digital Democracy”, King's College London, UK
2016 | “The Future of Democracy”, Universität Bologna, Italien
2016 | “A fair process of decision making”, Universität Toulouse, Frankreich
2015 | “Conectados por la Paz” in Bogotá, Kolumbien mit dem Büro des Hohen Beauftragten für Frieden (OACP) der Regierung von Kolumbien
2014 | “Technology & Strengthening Democracy” in Islamabad, Pakistan mit dem United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) New York
2013 | “Political Parties and the Citizens” in Yangon, Myanmar mit dem International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) Stockholm
Kontakt
andreas.nitsche@interaktive-demokratie.org
+49 (30) 5770 0482 | Berlin
+1 (323) 205 - 5543 | Los Angeles
