Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe

Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe

Causes, Characteristics and Consequences

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Descripción editorial

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.

GÉNERO
Política y actualidad
PUBLICADO
2014
26 de junio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
262
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
VENTAS
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
TAMAÑO
5.8
MB