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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.
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.
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