Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

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“…The individual institution or dialogue becomes one of many opportunities to systematically include a diversity of perspectives (Christiano 2012;Bohman 2012). In terms of representative democracy, such broad participation can indeed play a crucial epistemic function and strengthen the topdown implementation capacity through insights that might otherwise be lost to experts' self-referral and biases (Bächtiger and Parkinson 2019;Danielsson, Hertting, and Klijn 2018;Parkinson and Mansbridge 2012). A functioning democratic system thus needs a division of labour (cf.…”

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Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities

Baltz

2021

Local Government Studies

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This paper aims to critically explore how citizen dialogues are perceived by the municipalities and public servants who implement them. The question is answered using a multi-method approach: a content analysis of 213 selfreports on citizen dialogues from Swedish municipalities and 11 in-depth interviews with public servants working with citizen dialogues in a Swedish municipality. The findings show that citizen dialogues were thought of along three main narratives: information gathering, informing, and inclusion. Together, these narratives indicated a will to enhance informed decision-making. However, combining informed decision-making is with broad participation poses challenges; the authority had to delimit participation, establish structures, educate, define citizens and adapt existing working methods to external stakeholders. The three narratives address this adaptation.

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“…Citizen dialogues here concerned the organisational long-term ability to make responsive decisions and provide citizens with effective welfare service (cf. Bächtiger and Parkinson 2019;Danielsson, Hertting, and Klijn 2018). For public servants, it actualised a wish to engage in dialogue:…”

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Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities

Baltz

2021

Local Government Studies

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“…These views fed into the preparation of a Draft South East Queensland Regional Plan that was itself the subject of a second round of formal, statutory consultation through to March 2017 with the final plan expected to be released in mid-2017. The whole process, referred to as ShapingSEQ, made a concerted effort to engage a wide spectrum of the public, from interest and community groups through to young people, and used a number of social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) in an attempt to reach more than the 'usual suspects' [32]. While it is never easy to judge the success of public engagement initiatives such as this, my assessment would be that it was a thoughtful and commendable effort, comparable with similar efforts made by many local governments, but not often seen in the field of regional or metropolitan planning in Australia.…”

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Is Urban Planning in Australia Hindered by Poor Metropolitan Governance?

Burton

2017

Urban Science

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There are many calls for urban planning in Australia to be reformed, although often in contradictory ways. For example, some argue it should be capable of delivering greater certainty to developers while others call for more flexibility in processes of urban development regulation; some would like to roll back its regulatory impact while others argue for a renewal of planning's commitment to promoting social and spatial justice. The Australian planning system is also held to be hindered by a comparative lack of planning at and for the metropolitan scale. This is connected to the absence of well-developed structures of metropolitan governance in what is a three-tier federal system, with most power over planning concentrated at the State and Territory government scale. The paper explores this putative hindrance by considering three important issues in Australian urban policy debates about the efficacy of contemporary multi-level governance arrangements: spatial scale; identity and legitimacy; and efficiency and effectiveness. It includes some analysis of the case made for a more explicit and rigorous national urban policy and how this might relate to lower level planning regimes. The paper focuses on recent urban policy and planning initiatives in South East Queensland, one of Australia's fastest growing metropolitan regions, and concludes that while incremental but nonetheless significant improvements in planning policy and practice are possible, these are unlikely to satisfy those calling for more radical changes to improve the Australian planning system.

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Imagining democratic societies of the future: Insights from a foresight study

Vesnić-Alujević

2021

Futures & Foresight Science

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With the rise of polarizations, populism, anti-establishment parties, lack of political knowledge, distrust, growing inequalities and complex systems of voting and registration, democracy faces many challenges and instabilities (e.g. de Blok et al, 2019; Lindberg, 2019; Vachudova, 2019). It is believed that weak institutions, along with growing neoliberalism, are a key obstacle for sustainable development in the future (Krake, 2018), as well as a root cause of an increasing gap between those who govern and those who are governed (Gudowsky & Rosa, 2019). The dissatisfaction of citizens is seen throughout and beyond Europe (Giugni and Grasso, 2019). In the context of TUNA (Turbulent-Uncertain-Novel-Ambiguous) or VUCA (Volatility-Uncertainty-Complexity-Ambiguity) conditions in which we live nowadays (Ramirez & Wilkinson, 2016), we need to reflect on and anticipate how democracy could be renewed and preserved for the future and how political institutions need to adapt to be better fit for future. Imagining the future and creating visions and expectations, as an important part of social and political life, are the focus of several academic fields, primarily: futures studies (Bell, 2003; Dator, 2002); sociology of expectation (Skjølsvold, 2014); Science and Technology Studies (Jasanoff & Kim, 2013). They shape collective understanding and visions of a "good" society and possible futures, as well as the feasible agency in the present (Groves, 2013; Jasanoff & Kim, 2013). Consequently, they impact the state, political institutions and society (Jasanoff, 2004). We also draw here from the concept of "civic imagination", as "the capacity to imagine alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions world", as well as citizens' agency to make the change and be "an equal participant within a democratic culture" (The Civic Imagination Project, 2017; https://www.civic imagi natio nproj ect.org/). Likewise, future literacies and the development of a foresight culture are based on the capacities to imagine and anticipate the future (Miller 2018; Candy, 2018). In the same context, Vervoort et al.

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Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

Abstract: The redefinition of public comments on municipal action through the promotion of "participatory democracy"

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Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities

Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities

Is Urban Planning in Australia Hindered by Poor Metropolitan Governance?

Imagining democratic societies of the future: Insights from a foresight study

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