The democratic anchorage of governance networks in smart cities: an empirical assessment

Nesti, Giorgia; Graziano, Paolo Roberto

doi:10.1080/14719037.2019.1588355

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“…Due to the political nature of the smart city idea, it is important that stakeholders actively legitimate initiatives and projects (e.g., through participation) (Nesti & Graziano 2020). Smart cities draw upon citizen involvement and participation, as this is considered a core element of their "smartness" (Kitchin 2014;Nam & Pardo 2011).…”

Section: Legitimacy In Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Smart cities are a new subject in research on legitimacy. Recent studies have highlighted that although smart cities in a continental European context promote principles of democratic representation, they lack mechanisms for truly fostering citizen participation (Nesti & Graziano, 2020). Meijer and Bolivar (2016) argued that smart city governance and legitimacy are not technical issues, but rather challenges of a political nature and participation.…”

Section: Legitimacy In Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Legitimizing the Smart City Idea: The Case of the #Smarthalle

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Guenduez

2020

Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences

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Section: Legitimacy In Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Legitimacy In Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimizing the Smart City Idea: The Case of the #Smarthalle

Frischknecht

Schedler

Guenduez

2020

Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences

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“…A study on smart cities in Europe revealed that the link between public institutions and general public is not yet very strong. There are inadequate mechanisms for public participation and public voice in governance of public institutions (Nesti and Graziano 2020).…”

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Governance Innovation

Jain

2020

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Governance innovation is defined as "the introduction of new elements into a public service, in the form of new knowledge, a new organization and/or new management or processual skills that represent discontinuity with the past." Thus, there are two essential elements in innovation: 1. adoption of new element and 2. improved performance. These two components help in improvement of public services. These two elements have enabled public institutions to change themselves completely. Those changes that were unthinkable in the public sector earlier have been introduced due to these innovations. The introduction of information technology has helped in the successful introduction of major innovations (Osborne and Brown 2005).

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“…Albeit over recent years, smart city has become eminently a mainstream technocratic concept in European policy agendas [2,3]. These agendas, in turn, have taken for granted the meaning of stakeholders without further questioning who the term actually references, which puts at stake both urban democracy and the related political decisions for the city [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

Calzada

2020

Smart Cities

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The smart cities policy approach has been intensively implemented in European cities under the Horizon 2020 programme. However, these implementations not only reduce the interdependencies among stakeholders to technocratic Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models, but also fail to question the identities of strategic stakeholders and how they prioritise their business/social models. These aspects are putting democracy at stake in smart cities. Therefore, this article aims to unfold and operationalise multistakeholders’ policy frameworks from the social innovation perspective by suggesting the ex-novo penta-helix framework—including public, private, academia, civic society, and social entrepreneurs/activists—to extend the triple and quadruple-helix frameworks. Based on fieldwork action research conducted from February 2017 to December 2018—triangulating desk research, 75 interviews, and three validation workshops—this article applies the penta-helix framework to map out five strategic dimensions related to (i) multistakeholder helix framework and (ii) the resulting business/social models comparatively in three follower cities of the H2020-Replicate project: Essen (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland), and Nilüfer (Turkey). For each case study, the findings reveal: (i) a unique multistakeholder composition, (ii) diverse preferences on business/social models, (iii) a regular presence of the fifth helix as intermediaries, and (iv) the willingness to experiment with democratic arrangements beyond the hegemonic PPP.

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The democratic anchorage of governance networks in smart cities: an empirical assessment

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

Legitimizing the Smart City Idea: The Case of the #Smarthalle

Legitimizing the Smart City Idea: The Case of the #Smarthalle

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Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework

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