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Title Local participatory governance and representative democracy : institutional dilemmas in European cities / edited by Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge critical studies in public management
Routledge critical studies in public management.
Contents Representative democracy and the problem of institutionalizing local participatory governance / Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg -- Tricky for good reasons : institutionalizing local participatory governance in representative democracy / Marianne Danielsson, Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn -- Participatory governance and the need for an analysis inspired by ethnography : two dialogue meetings / Clarissa Kugelberg -- A Trojan horse in the representative system : participatory governance in Rotterdam and the redevelopment of the Fenix Storehouses / Lieselot Vandenbussche and Jasper Eshuis -- Participatory governance as an embryonic opportunity structure : the case of the young adult center in northern Botkyrka / Clarissa Kugelberg -- Residents' participation under representative rule : the redefinition of public comments on municipal action through the promotion of "participatory democracy" / Virginie Anquetin -- Institutionalization of local participatory governance in France, the Netherlands and Sweden : three arguments reconsidered / Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn
Summary "Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and segregation. In practice, these attempts are given many names, such as citizen panels, deliberative fora, collaborative dialogues, etc. In the academic literature as well, the phenomenon falls under many different headings, for instance collaborative, deliberative or interactive governance. Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy refers to this empirical phenomenon as local participatory governance, that is, government-sponsored direct participation between invited citizens and local officials in concrete arrangements and concerning problems that affect them. Participatory governance, we argue, may take many forms, regarding (1) type of interaction and type of communication between participants within the specific participatory arrangement (e.g., deliberative vs. aggregative) as well as regarding (2) the relation and connection between the specific arrangement and the more traditional representative structures (e.g., compatible, incompatible, transformative or irrelevant). The proposed edited volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed March 7, 2018)
Subject Municipal government -- Europe -- Citizen participation
Political planning -- Europe -- Citizen participation
Representative government and representation -- Europe
Political participation -- Europe
Democracy -- Europe
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
Democracy
Municipal government -- Citizen participation
Political participation
Political planning -- Citizen participation
Representative government and representation
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Hertting, Nils, editor.
Kugelberg, Clarissa, editor.
ISBN 9781315471174
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