Hertting / Kugelberg Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

Institutional Dilemmas in European Cities
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-47115-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hertting, Nils

Kugelberg, Clarissa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Part I. Local participatory governance: theoretical and empirical arguments. 1. Representative democracy and dilemmas of participatory governance. Nils Hertting & Clarissa Kugelberg. 2. Participatory governance and representative democracy: logics and links. Marianne Danielsson, Nils Hertting & Erik-Hans Klijn. 3. An ethnographically inspired approach to participatory governance research: Why and how? Clarissa Kugelberg & Jasper Eshuis. Part II. Three cases of local participatory governance. 4. The Trojan horse in a representative system. Participatory governance in Katendrecht, Rotterdam. L. Vandenbussche and J. Eshuis. 5. Participatory governance as an embryonic opportunity structure: The case of a young adult center in northern Botkyrka, Stockholm. Clarissa Kugelberg. 6. Residents’ participation under representative rule: The promotion of ‘participatory democracy’ in Strasbourg. Virgine Anquetin. Part III. Local participatory governance for the future? Analytical expectations and implications for practices. 7. Representative democracy and participatory governance: Exploring the variations between France, the Netherlands and Sweden. Nils Hertting & Erik-Hans Klijn. (8) Things to think about: Future Participatory Governance and

Über Autor(innen)

Nils Hertting is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) and the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Clarissa Kugelberg is Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University, Sweden.