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Cogitatio Press is a publisher founded in 2014 with the aim of promoting open-access divulgation of scientific knowledge. We believe that open-source knowledge generates something more valuable, benefiting researchers, policy-makers and society in general.

Latest Publications

Towards an Innovative Democracy: Institutionalizing Participation in Challenging Times
Irena Fiket, Gazela Pudar Drasko and Giovanni Allegretti
Editorial | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Creativity or Institutionalization? Beyond the Dualism in Democratic Innovation
Paola Pierri
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Institutionalization of Participatory Democratic Innovations: Understanding the Roles of Established and Emerging Actors
Gazela Pudar Drasko and Irena Fiket
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Deliberative Policy (Sub)System: Institutionalising Deliberative Mini‐Publics Within the Policy Process
Nemanja Anđelković and Tara Tepavac
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence
Perle Petit and Alvaro Oleart
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
From Efficiency to Deliberation: Rethinking AI’s Role in Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations
Arild Ohren, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Čedomir Markov and Max Stearns
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
“More” or “Better” Institutionalization? Lessons From Latin American Institutions of Citizen Participation
Benjamin Goldfrank, Melisa Ross and Yanina Welp
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case
Stefania Ravazzi
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
A Chapter on Institutionalization: The Use and Misuse of Institutions of Citizen Participation in Hungary
Eszter Kovács Szitkay, Dániel Oross and Alexandra Kiss
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Does Federalism Facilitate Permanent Minipublics?
Francesco Veri and Nenad Stojanović
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Decolonising Deliberation: Citizens’ Assemblies as a Claimed Space for Forging Bottom‐Up Democracy in Lebanon and Tunisia
Mariam Daher, Sonia Chabane, Muzna Al-Masri and Ala'a Shehabi
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations in Poland: Mapping the Evolution of Citizens’ Assemblies Through Rules of Procedure
Paulina Pospieszna and Marta Hoffmann
Article | Open Access | Politics and Governance | Published: 22 January 2026
Immigrants’ Cross‐Border Interaction and the Pandemic: Estonians Living in Finland
Jussi S. Jauhiainen
Article | Open Access | Social Inclusion | Published: 22 January 2026
When Recruiters Talk About Language Skills: Research Challenges of Comparing “Folk” Concepts in Different Languages
Magdalena Zehetgruber
Article | Open Access | Social Inclusion | Published: 22 January 2026
Geogames’ Environments as Hosts for the Collective Expression of Emotions in Urban Space
Jan Szot, Edyta Sobieraj and Franciszek Krysztofiak
Article | Open Access | Urban Planning | Published: 21 January 2026