With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities. This book examines how this democratic innovation works in practice and asks the difficult questions. Can local participation in public management really strengthen its efficiency? Is genuine participation possible without small groups monopolizing power? Can local organizations avoid becoming bureaucratized and cut off from their roots? Can neighborhood mobilization go...
With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, loca...
Es gibt eine Wahlverwandtschaft von Partizipation und Verwaltungsmodernisierung - dies ist die zentrale These des Buches, die anhand einer systematisch-vergleichenden Studie zum Burgerhaushalt in Europa vorgestellt wird. Burgerhaushalte gehoren zu den innovativsten Verfahren der Burgerpartizipation heute und haben sich wahrend der letzten Jahre in mehreren europaischen Landern entwickelt. In diesem Buch werden die Verfahrensweise und Ergebnisse der Burgerhaushalte in Europa vorgestellt sowie eine Typologie der partizipativen Demokratie allgemein. Daruber hinaus gibt das Buch Einblick in...
Es gibt eine Wahlverwandtschaft von Partizipation und Verwaltungsmodernisierung - dies ist die zentrale These des Buches, die anhand einer systemat...
Das Losverfahren blickt zuruck auf eine lange politische Geschichte. Es lenkt den Blick auf eine oft vergessene politischen Dimension: Die Herschaft durch das Volk. Yes Sintomer zeigt mit dem vorliegenden Buch, dass ein neues politisches Terrain sichtbar wird - eine Form partizipativer Demokratie, in der die Burger entscheidenden Einfluss auf die politischen Prozesse der Entscheidungsfindung nehmen konnen.
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Das Losverfahren blickt zuruck auf eine lange politische Geschichte. Es lenkt den Blick auf eine oft vergessene politischen Dimension: Die Herschaf...
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...
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy o...
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...
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy o...
As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results. Its first section concerns contemporary challenges and new approaches to the public sphere. The second focuses on the Deliberative Poll as a specific deliberative technique and compares findings emanating from this practice in various political and cultural contexts. The third section addresses the challenge of determining what constitutes deliberative...
As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. T...
