Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe: Causes, Characteristics and Consequences

Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe: Causes, Characteristics and Consequences

Font, Joan
Sintomer, Yves
Della Porta, Donatella

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1783480742
ISBN13: 9781783480746
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jun 5 2014
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of participatory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional democratic participatory mechanisms.

Looking at a huge variety of subnational examples across Italy, Spain and France, the book interrogates the rich findings of a substantial research project. The authors use quantitative and qualitative methods to compare why these cases of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they function, and what cultural impact they've achieved. This allows highly original insights into why participatory mechanisms work in some places, but not others, and the sorts of choices that organizers of participatory processes have to consider when creating such policies.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Political Science

View All