About

Anne is a PhD researcher on power-sharing at Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at University of Canberra. Anne is the recipient of the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative 2021 PhD Scholarship and is the former Vice Mayor and city council member of her hometown the City of Aarhus in Denmark where she held public office from 2014-2018. For her PhD, Anne examines how power is experienced, exercised and shared, and to what extent power-sharing has deliberative dimensions in political decision-making processes in Australian local governance. More specifically, her PhD examines the democratic, political and institutional conditions for power-sharing through deliberation between powerholders of democratic innovations (councillors, council officers and deliberative democracy practitioners) and community members in three comparative case studies of Australian local governance. She is set to complete her PhD in 2024. Anne has extensive experience from Danish politics. As Vice Mayor, she served as a member of five political committees. Two of these committees were deliberative co-creation task committees (similar to deliberative mini-public) with both councillors and community members who had been selected through sortition. During her time in public office, she focused on how members of the community could have more direct impact on public policymaking. She also focused on how to create the best possible conditions for startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners by leading deliberative processes herself. Throughout her time in Danish politics, Anne ran multiple political bipartisan campaigns. These campaigns sought to bring different perspectives, lived-experiences and worldviews together over issues such as lack of democratic participation, enablement of young people's voices and gender inequality in local government politics. Much of her research interests stem from her lived-experience with power, democratic innovations and public governance in Denmark. Anne's research interests include power and power-sharing in democratic and political institutions and organisations, democratic innovations, public governance, political leadership, Australian politics and qualitative research methods.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Elites, Governance, Government, Institutions, Local Government, Political Leadership, Political Participation, Political Psychology, Public Administration, Public Policy, Critical Theory, Qualitative, Decision Making, Normative Theory, Political Engagement, Power, Empirical, Policy-Making

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Democratic Innovations
• Local Government and Politics
• Public Policy
• The Sciences of the Democracies