Butzlaff, Felix ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6247-3194
(2022)
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy.
Political Studies Review.
ISSN 1478-9302
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Abstract
The rising participatory demands of citizens have been addressed with a variety of democratic innovations. However, increasing demands for democratization have been accompanied by a parallel rise in scepticism and doubt about the capabilities of representative democracies to ensure policy efficacy. I seek to address this democratic ambivalence by focusing on the demands for citizen participation in the context of local democracy. In a series of qualitative interviews, and using Vienna’s Seestadt Aspern, Europe’s biggest city development project, as an illustration, I examine (a) bottom-up and top-down understandings of democracy and participation among administration, city-planners and citizens and (b) strategies to reconcile inconsistent expectations of participation. I show that conflicting understandings of participation are dealt with in different settings and that, despite a public commitment to democratic participation, citizens, city-planners and administration alike expect a democratically concealed yet controlled management process allegedly ensuring more efficacious policy decisions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Departments > Sozioökonomie > Gesellschaftswandel und Nachhaltigkeit |
Version of the Document: | Published |
Variance from Published Version: | None |
Depositing User: | Felix Butzlaff |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2022 20:02 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 20:02 |
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FIDES Link: | https://bach.wu.ac.at/d/research/results/104059/ |
URI: | https://epub.wu.ac.at/id/eprint/8616 |
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