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Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Butzlaff, Felix |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | The rising participatory demands of citizens have been addressed with a variety of democratic innovations. However, increasing demands for democratization have been accompanied by a parallel rise in scepticism and doubt about the capabilities of representative democracies to ensure policy efficacy. I seek to address this democratic ambivalence by focusing on the demands for citizen participation in the context of local democracy. In a series of qualitative interviews, and using Vienna’s Seestadt Aspern, Europe’s biggest city development project, as an illustration, I examine (a) bottom-up and top-down understandings of democracy and participation among administration, city-planners and citizens and (b) strategies to reconcile inconsistent expectations of participation. I show that conflicting understandings of participation are dealt with in different settings and that, despite a public commitment to democratic participation, citizens, city-planners and administration alike expect a democratically concealed yet controlled management process allegedly ensuring more efficacious policy decisions. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14789299221091884?download=true |
| Starting Page | 340 |
| Ending Page | 356 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| ISSN | 14789299 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Journal | Political Studies Review (PSW) |
| e-ISSN | 14789302 |
| DOI | 10.1177/14789299221091884 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-04-28 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | democratic ambivalence participation democratic innovations democratic theory urban planning |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |
