Regula Hänggli Fricker
Prof. Dr.
Professor
Department of Communication and Media Research
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Regula Hänggli is professor in political communication at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her work deals with (digital) democracy, public debates, opinion formation, and the origin of dialogue. Before she came to Fribourg, she was a professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). She was also member of a temporary federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of our society.
Hänggli holds a PhD and an M.A. in Political Science (major subject), and Economics (minor subject) from the University of Bern. Her research interests include political communication in a comparative perspective, institutional reforms, and (digital) democracy.
In the fall semester of 2023, Hänggli attended the TdLab (ETH Zurich), in the fall semester of 2018 she was a guest researcher of the COSS (Computatational Social Science) Initiative at ETH in Zurich. Before coming to Fribourg, she was an assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). In 2008/2009, Hänggli was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, Evanston/USA with Prof. Dr. James Druckman. In 2004 she studied one semester at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Research and publications
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Publications
33 publications
A comparative analysis of reporting on Islam between 2018–2020: Characteristics of institutionally and event-driven debates
Journalism (2024) | Journal articleBrexit on Twitter: Unraveling the Dynamics of Polarization Over Time
Thomas Wellings, Regula Hänggli Fricker, Evangelos Pournaras, Wenqing Fu, (11.6.2024) | ConferenceHow voting rules impact legitimacy
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2024) | Journal articleDesigning Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting
Digital Government: Research and Practice (2024) | Journal articleFair and Inclusive Participatory Budgeting: Voter Experience with Cumulative and Quadratic Voting Interfaces
Thomas Wellings, Fatemeh Banaie Heravan, Abhinav Sharma, Lodewijk Gelauff, Regula Hänggli Fricker, Evangelos Pournaras (2024) | Book chapterIslambezogene Konflikte im Spiegel der Medien , in Soziale Konflikte. Potenziale aus sozialwissenschaftlicher, islamischer und christlicher Perspektive
Regula Hänggli Fricker (2024) | Book chapterThe Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics
Regula Hänggli Fricker, Alexandra Feddersen (2023), ISBN: 9780192871787 | Edited bookImproving City Life via Legitimate and Participatory Policy-making: A Data-driven Approach in Switzerland
Thomas Samuel Wellings, Sirjoni Majumdar, Regula Haenggli Fricker, Evangelos Pournaras, Regula Hänggli Fricker, (11.7.2023) | ConferenceDemocracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society
Journal of Computational Science (2023) | Journal articleWho speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (2023) | Journal article