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Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe

Causes, Characteristics and Consequences

von: Joan Font, Donatella Della Porta, Yves Sintomer
57,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield International
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	05.06.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781783480753
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	262

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Titelbeschreibung

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of participatory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional democratic participatory mechanisms. 
 

 
Looking at a huge variety of subnational examples across Italy, Spain and France, the book interrogates the rich findings of a substantial research project. The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods to compare why these cases of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they function, and what cultural impact they’ve achieved. This allows highly original insights into why participatory mechanisms work in some places, but not others, and the sorts of choices that organizers of participatory processes have to consider when creating such policies.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Using a highly original multi-method approach, this book examines a wide range of innovative institutional participatory processes across Spain, Italy and France.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Joan Font, Donatella della Porta and Yves Sintomer / The National and Regional Contexts of Participatory Experiences, Yves Sintomer and Eloísa del Pino / The Causes of Local Participation, Joan Font, Dolores Sesma and Paloma Fontcuberta / Institutional Participatory Initiatives and Democratic Qualities, Donatella della Porta, Herbert Reiter and Pau Alarcón / Citizens and Participation, Joan Font, Carolina Galais, Magdalena Wojcieszak and Pau Alarcón / The Cultural Consequences of Engagement in Democratic Processes, María Jesús Funes, Julien Talpin and Mathias Rull / Conclusion, Joan Font, Donatella della Porta and Yves Sintomer / Appendix 1. Experience Databases: research protocols / Appendix 2. Municipalities and the Initiation of Participatory Processes: two databases / Appendix 3. Contextual Case Studies: research protocol and case selection / Appendix 4. Case Studies about Cultural Effects: data collection protocol / Appendix 5: Surveys used in the book / Bibliography

Autorenportrait

Joan Font is Senior Researcher at the IESA/CSIC working on citizen participation in public policies. He has been a senior lecturer at the Political Science department of UAB (Barcelona) and research director at CIS (Madrid). He has published in many journals including European Journal of Political Research, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Public Administration, Third World politics Regional & Federal Studies or South European Society and politics. Donatella della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute. Her recent publications include: Meeting Democracy (CUP, 2013); Clandestine Political Violence (CUP, 2013), Can Democracy be Saved (Polity, 2013), Mobilizing on the Extreme Right (OUP, 2012); Social Movements and Europeanization (OUP, 2009; (ed.) Another Europe (Routledge, 2009); and (ed.) Democracy in Social Movements (Palgrave, 2009). Yves Sintomer is Professor of Political Science at Paris 8 University, Senior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France, and Associate Researcher at Neuchâtel University and Marc Bloch Centre (Humboldt University Berlin/CNRS). He has studied and taught in Harvard, Frankfurt/Main, Complutense-Madrid, Lausanne (Switzerland), UCL (Belgian), Universidad del Pais Vasco, Catania (Italy). He has been Deputy Director of the Marc Bloch Center (Berlin). His recent publications include Petite histoire de l’expérimentation démocratique. Tirage au sort et politique d’Athènes à nos jours. (La Découverte, 2011). The book has 10 additional contributors, affiliated with diverse Southern European universities and research institutions.

Alternativtitel

In political theory there is an intense debate on deliberative democracy, which is being enriched through empirical research. There are several important books about participatory processes, but none of them presents a similar approach. Several of them are case studies based on one or few cases, or a specific type of participatory process and others provide an overview of the field. None combine the range of cases and multi-method approach of this book.
 

 
Fung, Empowered participation, Princeton University Press, 2004, PB £20.95, 296pp
 
Focuses on a case study in Chicago
 

 
Fournier, When Citizens Decide, OUP, 2011, HB £57.00, 224pp
 
Compares cases two cases in Canda with a Dutch example
 

 
Talpin, Schools of democracy, ECPR Press, 2011, PB £27.00, 252pp
 
Based on the ethnographic portion of the same research project, but without the quantitative angle.
 

 
Fishkin, When the People Speak, OUP, 2009, PB £14.00, 256pp
 
An overview of the possibilities provided by participatory and deliberative democracy
 

 
Smith, Democratic Innovations, CUP, 2009, PB £19.99
 
Written for an undergraduate audience, this book compares case studies from across the world – is not based on original empirical research

Sonderbeitrag

Co-edited and co-authored by leading scholars in the field of European participatory and deliberative democracy
 

 
Examines an under-studied area – geographically and substantively – in a growing field of study
 

 
Combines quantitative and qualitative methods to create a sophisticated mixed-method research design
 

 
Explores a large number of cases that represent a wide variety of participatory models