Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

This edited volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements.

Autorentext

Nils Hertting is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) and the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Clarissa Kugelberg is Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhalt

1. Representative Democracy and the Problem of Institutionalizing Local Participatory Governance

Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg

2. Tricky for Good Reasons: Institutionalizing Local Participatory Governance in Representative Democracy

Marianne Danielsson, Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn

3. Participatory Governance and the Need for an Analysis Inspired by

Ethnography. Two Dialogue Meetings

Clarissa Kugelberg

4. A Trojan Horse in the Representative System: Participatory Governance

in Rotterdam and the Redevelopment of the Fenix Storehouses

Lieselot Vandenbussche and Jasper Eshuis

5. Participatory Governance as an Embryonic Opportunity Structure: The

Case of the Young Adult Center in Northern Botkyrka

Clarissa Kugelberg

6. Residents' Participation Under Representative Rule: The Redefinition of

Public Comments on Municipal Action Through the Promotion of "Participatory

Democracy"

Virginie Anquetin

7. Institutionalization of Local Participatory Governance in France, The

Netherlands and Sweden: Three Arguments Reconsidered

Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn