Putting the ‘Community’ into Community Planning: Assessing Community Inclusion in Northern Ireland

McAlister, Ruth

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00967.x

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“…Participatory practices are rare in consociations. Northern Ireland has some citizen community planning, and a variety of different participatory initiatives supported by The European Union Peace Programmes (Buchanan ; McAlister ; Hayward ). Belgium's non‐governmental 2012 ‘G1000 Citizen's Summit’ is another example (Caluwaerts and Reuchamps ).…”

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Larin

Röggla

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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South Tyrol is an autonomous, predominantly German‐speaking province in Italy, and one of the most successful cases of power‐sharing in the world. Nevertheless, the Province recently conducted a participatory‐democratic process known as the ‘Autonomy Convention’ to debate and draft a proposal for revising the 1972 Autonomy Statute. It is the first such process with the stated intent of amending a power‐sharing arrangement, and our research questions are whether this represents a new type of consociational negotiation, and what made it possible. The answer to the first question is ‘no’, and the Convention is best seen as a ‘participatory‐ish consultation’ which had no formal power. But the problems that it faced, and the fact that it occurred at all, are evidence of consociational democracy's potential to transform conflicts. The Convention, we argue, is the result of ‘normal’, not ‘ethnic’ politics, and two generations of successful power‐sharing made that possible by desecuritising the relationship between South Tyrol's three official linguistic groups.

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Larin

Röggla

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Given this accountability gap or 'democratic deficit' (Rhodes, 2000: 84) (Thompson, 2003: 54). This opportunity was even more relevant to Northern Ireland where citizen engagement within the political/ democratic process has traditionally been constrained (Wilford and Wilson, 2001;McAlister, 2010). The erosion of local political accountability through 'Direct Rule' is said to have created a 'democratic void' (McAlister, 2010: 544) or 'democratic deficit' (Wilford and Wilson, 2001: 3;Wilford et al, 2003).…”

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Examining participatory governance in a devolving UK: Insights from national parks policy development in Northern Ireland

Bell

Stockdale

2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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This paper provides a contemporary examination of policy making and participatory practice in the context of devolving governance in the UK. The paper takes Northern Ireland as its focus and is particularly timely considering the context of devolved governance, the ongoing transition from conflict to relative peace and the potential for rejuvenating democracy through participatory governance. The paper concentrates on one particular policy process, namely the attempted designation of a national park in the Mournes Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). A thematic analysis of qualitative data is drawn upon to analyse the structural factors that framed the policy making process and the role of power in determining how consultation processes were initiated, designed and undertaken. Using Lukes' model (1974; as an analytical framework, power is shown to manifest at multiple levels within the policy making process to influence policy outcomes. The paper reveals how the persistence of a top-down approach to policy development combined with a highly parochial political outlook undermined attempts to designate a Mourne National Park.The paper concludes that, given the immaturity of recently devolved government in Northern Ireland, in this instance, the democratising intentions of devolved governance have not been met. This has implications for Northern Ireland's recent reform of public administration which devolves certain planning powers to local authority level, and the management of the internationally significant Mournes landscape.

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“…Theorists argue that deliberatively democratic governance can allow issues to be addressed in a non‐confrontational approach and can facilitate dialogue in a multi‐ethnic society where inter‐ethnic trust is low (Fung, ; McAlister, ). Through an analysis of three case studies of governance networks surrounding public spaces in Prishtina, we look at possibilities for deliberative practices in emerging institutions.…”

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‘If This Was a Normal Situation’: Challenges and Potentials for Deliberative Democratic Peacebuilding in Kosovo's Emerging Governance Networks

Delaney

Haar

Tatenhove

2017

Public Admin & Development

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Summary The link between public administration and conflict resolution is traditionally understood through the ‘democratic peace’ thesis, which holds that war is less likely in democracies than in non‐democracies. Limited success with post‐conflict democratisation missions has opened space for renewed research on three strands of ‘deeper democracy’: decentralisation, participation and deliberation. This article reports on the study of deliberative democratic practices in emerging governance networks in Prishtina. Through an investigation of three contentious issues in Prishtina's public spaces, research combines documentary sources with field interviews with governance actors to identify factors that enable and constrain the scope for deliberative decision‐making in governance networks. Case studies point to six main influences: ‘securitisation’, trust building, ‘mandate parallelism’, structural patterns of inclusion and exclusion, network structures and the properties of governed public spaces. In addition, two frames are found to be particularly resistant to deliberative engagement: Kosovo's status and ethnic identities. We formulate a tentative conclusion to be further investigated: in contexts where distrust is high, deliberative governance requires a rigid adherence to an overarching reference framework that can create discursive space within which relative deliberation can take place. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Putting the ‘Community’ into Community Planning: Assessing Community Inclusion in Northern Ireland

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Examining participatory governance in a devolving UK: Insights from national parks policy development in Northern Ireland

‘If This Was a Normal Situation’: Challenges and Potentials for Deliberative Democratic Peacebuilding in Kosovo's Emerging Governance Networks

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