Introduction: Democracy, Conflict and Participation in Decentred Governance

Griggs, Steven; Norval, Aletta J.; Wagenaar, Hendrik

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“…Harun et al (2015) and Célérier and Cuenca (2015) explore participatory governance in a developing country context. Both reveal the challenges in moving from government to governance -a focus of critical policy studies and democratic political theory (Griggs et al, 2014). The authors' identification of the potential and problems of "governance-driven democratization" and achieving meaningful participation findings are consistent with studies reported there Q2 (Warren, 2014).…”

Section: Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously Through Decentred Undsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…see Fischer and Gotweis, 2012;Griggs et al, 2014;Mouffe, 2013;Norval, 2007;Tully, 1995Tully, , 2008aWagenaar, 2011;Wingenbach, 2011). The agonistic political theorist Tully (esp.…”

Section: Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously Through Decentred Undmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards Facilitating Democracy -Future Research Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Griggs et al, 2014;Wagenaar, 2011) and political democratic theory on ways of institutionalizing agonistic democracy (Wingenbach, 2011 Interpretive and critical policy analysis has a rich literature on the potentialities and challenges of citizen-focused governance (e.g. Barnes et al, 2007;Barnes and Prior, 2009;Griggs et al, 2014). It covers possibilities for developing workable agreements and learning between groups with deep value differences (Forester, 2014); combining devices associated with different models of democracy creatively in different decision-making contexts (Saward, 2003).…”

Section: Towards Facilitating Democracy -Future Research Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Accounting, accountants and accountability regimes in pluralistic societies

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Dillard

Hopper

2015

Acc Auditing Accountability J

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize work in the emerging field of how accounting and accountability can be reoriented to better promote pluralistic democracy which recognizes and addresses differentials in power, beliefs and desires of constituencies. An agenda for future research and engagement is outlined, drawing on this and insights from other papers in this special issue of the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) aimed at taking multiple perspectives seriously. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews and synthesizes the central themes associated with accounting, accountants and accountability regimes in pluralistic societies, especially with respect to the research studies in this AAAJ special issue, and it identifies possibilities for future research and engagement. Findings – Three central themes are identified: the challenges of achieving critical, pluralistic engagement in and through mainstream institutions; the possibilities of taking multiple perspectives seriously through decentred understandings of governance and democracy; and the value of an agonistic ethos of engagement in accounting. The articles in this issue contribute to these themes, albeit differently, and in combination with the extant social science literature reviewed here, open up pathways for future research and engagement. Practical implications – This work seeks to encourage the development of pluralistic accounting and accountability systems drawing on conceptual and practice-based resources across disciplines and by considering the standpoints of diverse interested constituencies, including academics, policymakers, business leaders and social movements. Originality/value – How accounting can reflect and enact pluralistic democracy, not least to involve civil society, and how problems related to power differentials and seemingly incompatible aims can be addressed has been largely neglected. This issue provides empirical, practical and theoretical material to advance further work in the area.

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Section: Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously Through Decentred Undsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…see Fischer and Gotweis, 2012;Griggs et al, 2014;Mouffe, 2013;Norval, 2007;Tully, 1995Tully, , 2008aWagenaar, 2011;Wingenbach, 2011). The agonistic political theorist Tully (esp.…”

Section: Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously Through Decentred Undmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards Facilitating Democracy -Future Research Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards Facilitating Democracy -Future Research Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Accounting, accountants and accountability regimes in pluralistic societies

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2015

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“…Once well established, such horizons incorporate practices of governance that guide, conduct, and set norms of legitimate use on the one hand, and practices of freedom, questioning, and challenging existing rules of the game on the other (Griggs et al, 2014;Tully, 2008: 23). 3 Given this, we analyze the ways in which existing as well as emerging practices of governance seek to provide shape and give meaning to FRTs.…”

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Public faces? A critical exploration of the diffusion of face recognition technologies in online social networks

Norval

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2017

New Media & Society

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In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid spread of biometric technologies from the security domain to commercial and social media applications. In this article, we critically explore the repercussions of this diffusion of face recognition to everyday contexts with an in-depth analysis of Facebook's "tag suggestions" tool which first introduced the technology to on-line social networks. We use Nissenbaum's framework of contextual integrity to show how the informational norms associated with biometrics in security and policing -their contexts of emergence -are grafted on-line social networks onto their context of iteration. Our analysis reveals a process that has inadvertently influenced the way users understand face recognition, precluding critical questioning of its wider use. It provides an important deepening of contextually-driven approaches to privacy by showing the process through which contexts are co-constitutive of informational norms. Citizens are also offered a critical tool for understanding the trajectory of biometrics and reflect on the data practices associated with the use of face recognition in social media and society at large.

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