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Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Klausen, Jan Erling Vabo, Signy Irene Winsvold, Marte |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | In this article, we investigate elected representatives’ attitudes to citizen participation and the design of participatory arrangements. We distinguish between citizenship-oriented and governance-oriented attitudes. Whereas citizenship-oriented attitudes imply designing participatory arrangements to safeguard the democratic values of equality, transparency and inclusion, governance-oriented attitudes imply designing participatory arrangements to support elected representatives in their roles. Based on unique data from a web-based survey sent to all local councillors in Norway, we found that although Norwegian local councillors tend towards citizenship-oriented rather than governance-oriented attitudes to citizen participation, there is great variation between councillors in this respect. Analysing strategic and ideological explanations, we found that right-wing politicians tend to hold more governance-oriented attitudes than left-wing politicians do. Strategic considerations seem to have no effect on councillors in power in this regard. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01925121221092600?download=true |
| ISSN | 01925121 |
| Journal | International Political Science Review (IPS) |
| e-ISSN | 1460373X |
| DOI | 10.1177/01925121221092600 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-06-01 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | participatory democracy participatory arrangements Citizen participation democratic innovations local democracy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |