Legitimacy and community involvement in local governance

Klausen, Jan Erling; Sweeting, David

doi:10.4324/9780203340950_chapter_10

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“…The term "democratic legitimacy" refers to the acceptance of a political system by those who are bound by its decisions (Dahl, 1971;Klausen & Sweeting, 2005). Thus, the participation of elected representatives and the question of representation are essential for the legitimacy of urban development.…”

Section: Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Closure in Urban Planning

Hanssen¹,

Saglie²

2010

Planning Theory & Practice

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Communicative planning literature has for a number of years discussed how to prevent social closure and how to improve access to planning processes for all parties interested in urban planning. The norms and measures discussed have to some degree been institutionalized into planning laws and been implemented in professional practice. In this article we examine how cognitive closure mechanisms work parallel with social and economic closure mechanisms, often reinforcing them, in three Norwegian cities. The article also discusses the democratic implications of these cognitive closure mechanisms, related to representation, inclusion, and accountability.

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Section: Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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Cognitive Closure in Urban Planning

Hanssen¹,

Saglie²

2010

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…Advocates of more participatory modes of democracy, however, often complain that contemporary configurations of parliamentary representation are inadequate (see, for example, Barber 1984;de Tocqueville 1945;Dryzek 2000b;Fox and Miller 1995;Hirst 1994;Odd Var Eriksen 2000;Pateman 1970; see also Rayner 1997 for a comprehensive account of the pit-falls of Australia's representative structure). Formal democratic political processes, invariably parliamentary representation, are accessible to some groups more than others, reinforcing social and economic disparities, and deepening political inequality (Young 2000;see also Dahl 1985;Klausen and Sweeting 2003 Furthermore, until relatively recently, Indigenous Australians enjoyed few formal legal and political rights, and struggled to access many mainstream government services. Limitations of parliamentary representation are starkly evident in the Indigenous experience: the small number of Indigenous voters and their geographic dispersal translates to little electoral 'muscle'.…”

Section: Democracy and Social Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Power, Culture, Economy (CAEPR 30) : Indigenous Australians and Mining

Altman¹,

Martín²

2009

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“…The purpose of cooperative environmental governance is to overcome the necessarily conflictual nature of negotiations, and instead seek a positive negotiating space between investors and citizen groups. Such governance may be deliberative in that it allows local actors to participate in the identification and implementation of norms of environmental concern and political accountability, and hence overcome the problems of misrepresentation or domination described above (see also Klausen and Sweeting, 2003). In terms of climate change policy, cooperative environmental governance may make CDM-related investment less functional and oriented only to the output of reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, but to increase the numbers of options by which this objective is achieved, primarily by increasing local participation in deciding how investment is made.…”

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Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia

Forsyth

2005

Geoforum

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Public-private partnerships in environmental policy should not simply be viewed in instrumental terms as means of providing environmental infrastructure and services, but also as sites where norms of environmental concern and political accountability are formulated and replicated. Deliberative public-private partnerships − or partnerships that allow greater public participation in the formulation of these norms − may therefore become an important new form of local environmental governance and help make partnerships more relevant to local environmental needs. This paper examines case studies of public-private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may enhance the deliberative nature of public-private partnerships in environmental policy. The paper argues that current approaches to deliberative, or cooperative environmental governance concerning public-private partnerships need to acknowledge insights from network theory concerning the communication of environmental and political norms before they can be successfully transferred to developing countries.

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Legitimacy and community involvement in local governance

Cited by 29 publications

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Cognitive Closure in Urban Planning

Cognitive Closure in Urban Planning

Power, Culture, Economy (CAEPR 30) : Indigenous Australians and Mining

Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia

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